With millions of books and manuscripts, Cambridge University Library houses some of the world's greatest collections, from the scientific papers of Newton and Darwin to some of the oldest and most important religious texts in existence.
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“Students feel passionately about English at Newnham,” says Medieval Literature MPhil student Hetta Howes. “It’s one of the best colleges in terms of the writers it’s produced in modern times, and the English groups here are always close-knit. It’s something we’re all very proud of.”
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Professor Austin Smith of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Stem Cell Research believes these are exciting times for stem-cell research at Cambridge.
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Do you consider yourself a philanthropist? You may be surprised to hear that if you have ever contributed to a College telephone fundraising campaign, you most certainly should – not least because the impact of many small gifts from alumni is often huge.
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“There’s a genuine appetite for leaning Latin and Ancient Greek, not just for seeing Brad Pitt’s legs!” says Classics Professor Richard Hunter – referring, of course, to the 2004 film Troy.
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“We’d had a large number of girls join the club, so the sponsorship we had for the 2009/10 season wasn’t quite enough,” explains former club treasurer and fourth-year Engineering undergraduate Angharad West.
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Nicky Jecks’ matriculation photograph hangs on her sitting-room wall, not to impress guests or fill a convenient gap, but because it never ceases to amaze her.
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“History remembers the thinkers, the people who have had a major impact on the way we perceive the world culturally or scientifically,” says George Efstathiou, 1909 Professor of Astrophysics and Director of the Kavli Institute for Cosmology.
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