The latest news from Newnham’s Fellows, researchers, students and staff.
Professor Augusta McMahon will deliver the Henry Sidgwick Memorial Lecture at Newnham College on 3 May, focusing on Third Places and Happiness: 15-Minute Cities in ancient Mesopotamia. Augusta is Professor of Mesopotamian Archaeology in…
Newnham college is delighted that Honorary Fellow and former Principal, Dame Carol Black GBE FRCP has been nominated for the honorary degree of Doctor of Medical Science in the University of Cambridge. The Congregation…
Professor Jenn Ashworth (NC 2000) attended a special event at Newnham to mark her Honorary Fellowship. Jenn is Professor of Writing at Lancaster University and studied English at Newnham, matriculating in 2000. She completed…
New exhibition tells the incredible story of Newnham College women’s war work, at Bletchley Park and beyond More than 70 former students of Newnham College were secretly recruited for World War Two codebreaking work…
Global studies research centre launches new lecture series Professor Julia Gallagher (Kings College London) explored political authority through state architecture in sub-Saharan Africa, in a talk hosted by the Margaret Anstee Centre at Newnham…
Karin Horowitz (NC 1978), Honorary Associate explores the life of fellow Newnham alumna Eva Smith, immortalised through one of our postgraduate accommodation houses. I lived in Eva Smith House for three years when I…
One of the factors that makes Newnham such a stimulating intellectual environment is the presence of a large, diverse body of postgraduate students who come from a wide range of educational systems and many…
Booking is now open for the annual Cambridge Literary Festival and this year there are several speakers with strong links to Newnham. Former Principal of Newnham, Dame Carol Black, will be chairing Nobel Prize-winning…
Newnham College Library has digitised a medieval manuscript in Cambridge Digital Library, preserving it for the centuries to come. This manuscript, Newnham MS 4, dates to the first half of the 15th century and contains…
After seeing ever more precise imaging and computer-aided technology improve the detection of disease, Consultant Radiologist and Professorial Fellow Fiona Gilbert is excited about the potential for Artificial Intelligence to transform medicine, but aware…