Churchill Review 2016 by Churchill College

CHURCHILL

REVIEW Volume 53

2016

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CHURCHILL

REVIEW Volume 53 | 2016

“It’s certainly an unusual honour and a distinction that a college bearing my name should be added to the ancient and renowned foundations which together form the University of Cambridge.” Sir Winston Churchill, 17 October, 1959

CONTENTS

EDITORIAL

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FROM THE MASTER

THE COLLEGE YEAR

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Supporting our Students in Fulfilling their Potential Senior Tutor’s Report

A Vibrant & Multinational Community TAS Report

The Year the College was led by Women Bursar’s Report

Challenging but Rewarding Domestic Bursar’s Report

Transporting you back in Time & Space Director of the Archives Centre’s Report

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An Exciting Year The CEO of the Møller Centre’s Report

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Our Best Year in Fundraising in 25 years! Development Director’s Report

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Donations

SPOTLIGHT ON …

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In conversation with …The Master’s “Conversations” Women & Physics

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A Churchillian at Twickenham COLLEGE EVENTS

Founder and Foundation Our Millennial Master John Boyd at 80

The day I brought a Sex Blogger into College Moving Mountains 2016

Boksenberg 3205 Alec Boksenberg at 80

The Entrepreneurs of the Future Birthday of a Founding Fellow Ken Livesley at 90 A Miracle of Inter-Collegiate Cooperation The New Boathouse Don’s Generous Gift Pinchin Riley House Naming A Very Beautiful, Charming & Clever Woman Natasha Squire at 85 Leadership Programmes An Iconic Building The Opening of Cowan Court

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STUDENT LIFE JCR going ‘Forward’ JCR Report A Thriving and Supporting MCR Community MCR Report The MCR Photo Competition The MCR Conference on Everything CHUtalks: ‘Dark Energy and the Fate of the Universe’

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FEATURES The Importance of Giving An Alternative Graduate Experience From Pav to Turner Prize Welcome Home! First Annual Meeting of French Fellows Past Talking The Value of Oral History

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WHO’S WHO 2015-16 New Fellows Overseas Fellows Who’s Who in Churchill

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MEMBERS’ NEWS IN MEMORIAM

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IN THE BACK Information for alumni and past Fellows

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This was the year when women led Churchill. The Acting Senior Tutor joined the Master, the Bursar, the Domestic Bursar and the CEO of the Møller Centre at the top; the Master started her conversations with eminent women scientists to promote women in science; College joined forces with Isaac Physics to pilot workshops and residentials for year 12 girls to encourage them to take up STEM subjects at school; a sixth-year medical student represented Cambridge in the 29th annual Women’s Rugby Union Varsity Match that was played at Twickenham for the first time. This was the year when, in the words of the Master, Churchill had another ‘bumper year of exam results’. This was the year when Cowan Court, built thanks to the generous gifts of Alumni and Fellows, was officially opened by HRH the Duke of Gloucester, an architecture student of our own Professor Marcial Echenique; when Pinchin-Riley House was named, after extensive alterations were made possible by the generous gift of Dr Don Pinchin and his family; when a permanent exhibition entitled ‘Founder and Foundation’ transformed the Wolfson Hall Foyer; when the new boathouse was opened thanks to ‘a miracle of inter-collegiate cooperation’. This was the year when we celebrated two 80th birthdays, an 85th one and the 90th birthday of a Founder Fellow and when some of our past French Fellows returned ‘home’ for their 1st Annual Meeting. This was the year when the Moving Mountains 2016, with Baroness Tanni GreyThompson as its Keynote Speaker, was an overwhelming success which again attracted many people; the year when the Entrepreneurship Competition was successfully run for the second time. This was the year when the Møller Centre ran two very well received leadership programmes aimed at developing new skills in our young people and when our JCR and MCR communities ran exciting events for both study and pleasure.

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And this was also the year when one of our major alumni donors made a compelling case for supporting College so that Churchill can continue to recruit the best students at home and abroad and give them the opportunity of a firstclass education irrespective of their financial situation. When editing the many articles for the review I was yet again struck by the depth and breadth of our activities, by the exciting vitality, the intellectually rewarding achievements and the many accomplishments of both our student body and the Fellowship. Among today’s Brexit woes we can take much pride and comfort from our thriving truly international community. And this is the year I became Editor of the Churchill Review, following on the footsteps of Alison Finch (a hard act to follow!) – a thrilling and humbling task. This is also the year a new section entitled ‘Spotlight on…’ is added. This year the spotlight is on ‘Women at Churchill’. And finally I wish to thank Mark Goldie and Jennifer Brook for their wonderful support, great ideas and wise counsel; the Development Office – and in particular Annabel Busher – for their help with some of the sections in the Review; thanks also to Noelle Caulfield with her help with the Who’s Who section and for getting the students’ and officers’ reports (more or less) on time, my many thanks to Gavin Bateman and Naomi Morris for taking some wonderful photos and last but not least my grateful thanks to Paula Laycock who enthusiastically agreed to take charge of the many photos for the Review either by finding them or taking them herself.

Anny King

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FROM THE MASTER

â&#x20AC;&#x153;I believe I had extreme good fortune in taking up one of the best jobs going.â&#x20AC;?

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I thought my second year in College would be significantly easier than my first, since not everything was new, but fate has a way of intervening in the most unexpected ways. Towards the end of October Matthew fell down the stairs in the Lodge (strictly speaking, I think he fell down one stair) and ruptured his patella tendon. This turns out to be a big deal, although not something I had heard of before. He was incapacitated for many weeks, although he has made a pretty full recovery, and it is at times like that that you really appreciate the support a College can offer. From the porter who sat with Matthew for a couple of hours waiting for an ambulance (I was blissfully unaware of the incident being in London), to the Bursar who visited him in A+E, to the staff who got a hospital bed into the downstairs sitting room before he returned from hospital, to the College Nurse who cleansed the post-operative wound and gave us advice, everyone was fantastic. We are so grateful to the whole community. There is no doubt that this accident, which left Matthew barely able to get across a room for weeks, coloured Michaelmas Term and I dropped out of things I would have preferred not to. But the support we received illustrates what our students can receive when the world goes pear-shaped for them. For instance, maintaining a (part-time) College Nurse â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and also a College Counsellor, although Matthew did not need to avail himself of these services! â&#x20AC;&#x201C; is of huge benefit to students but represents a financial charge that the College needs to find. Another bumper year of exam results Turning to happier news, it has been another bumper year of exam results.They are almost as good as last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, although we have fallen a little down the league tables.What stands out to me is the fact that our students won eight University Prizes (compared with only two last year), including one in each year of the Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Tripos, a remarkable record. Cowan Court The new court, to be known as Cowan Court after alumnus and Benefactor Fellow Michael Cowan (U1970) and his wife Hilary who have so generously

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contributed to its building, is all but complete. As I write I had my first tour of the building this week and it is clear it is going to be an amazing place for students to live. It will provide light, large en-suite rooms which will also benefit the conference trade during the vacation. There is also a large meeting room to be known as the Sixties Room, reflecting the gifts from a group of early graduates who have contributed to the building. This building will be formally opened on September 23rd 2016. The Pinchin-Riley House Some of you will recall that we recently (just before I arrived) completed the refurbishment of 64 Storey’s Way, including a room designed for a disabled student. This house is now to be known as the Pinchin-Riley House, following the donation of £1M towards its refurbishment by the family of Don Pinchin (G1973), who died last year, in memory of Don and his graduate friend Chris Riley.We formally unveiled the plaque naming the building during a visit in June of Don’s widow Lydia Lukevich, his daughter Karen Pinchin and Chris Riley (G1972) along with his wife Jenny. The family also donated funds for the purchase of a new boat for the first men’s Eight, to be named Shall we Dance. Don’s widow and daughter spoke movingly about how important he felt his time in Churchill had been and how he always remembered it with affection and often talked about it. The Xiaotian Fu Garden That same week in June we also welcomed alumna Xiaotian Fu (G2006) back to the College. Xiaotian is now a successful TV presenter with the Chinese TV company Phoenix TV, with her acclaimed programme Talk with World Leaders. We have received the first in a series of generous gifts she has pledged in order to support academic teaching and learning in the College. In her honour a garden is to be created at the back of 72 Storey’s Way where there will be space for college members to study, reflect and be taught. The plans for this garden are well advanced following discussion with John Moore, the Head Gardener. Archives Centre’s Events The Archives Centre goes from strength to strength, capped by the recognition of the Archivist Allen Packwood who received an OBE in the 2016 Birthday

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Honours. Many congratulations Allen! This year has seen the inscription of the Papers of Sir Winston Churchill on the UNESCO International Register of the Memory of the World in a ceremony in Cardiff in June. February’s Roskill Lecture was a fascinating presentation by Sir Roderick Lyne about the Northern Ireland peace process. In February we also were delighted to welcome Randolph Churchill, our Founder’s grandson and Honorary Fellow of the College, to open a new permanent exhibition in the Wolfson Foyer telling the story of our remarkable founder, his interactions with the College and more generally about the Archives Centre. This exhibition, open both to students and to visitors attending events in the lecture theatre, should serve to remind people of Churchill’s life and ongoing relevance, and the papers of other notable figures (scientists, politicians and much more) that the Archives hold. I am keen that our students do not simply think of Sir Winston as a jolly old fellow that we quaintly drink a toast to at the end of formal meals! Leadership Events In that same spirit I want to see that the trio of the Archives, the Møller Centre and the main College remain a coherent whole, representing more than the sum of its parts. Under the theme of Leadership in particular there is scope to work closely together. Building on the course the Møller Centre ran last year for Young Leaders as part of the Churchill 2015 celebrations, this year for the first time a course was run in leadership for students from the College, with sessions being run in twilight hours and at weekends. Having attended the final event of the year, I can confirm with just what enthusiasm the course was received. We are seeking sponsorship in order to make this an annual course for students, to help equip them for life after university. Additionally, in political leadership the college trio plus the Centre for Science and Policy (CSaP) have run a couple of events to bring early career researchers and civil servants together and to facilitate mid-career researchers who might be interested in science policy learning more about what opportunities there are. Finally, this year I introduced a series of Conversations with leading women to showcase women’s contributions and to highlight some remarkable role models to the community.You can read more about these in a separate article in this Review.

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Meeting Alumni This year I travelled to California at the New Year, hosting events in San Francisco as well as holding meetings with alumni in Santa Barbara. Alumni events have also been held at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and at the High Court for the Stokes Bursary. I always enjoy meeting our alumni and hearing news of what theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve done since graduation. I hope to meet more of you at the various different events currently being planned for the next academic year.

Athene Donald

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.â&#x20AC;? Nelson Mandela

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Supporting our Students in Fulfilling their Potential Senior Tutorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Report (2015-2016) Dr Sally Boss was the Acting Senior Tutor this last year whilst Richard Partington was on sabbatical. Here she reflects on her time as Senior Tutor and the many successes our students have achieved guided and supported by College Fellows and staff. My time standing in as Senior Tutor this year has given me deeper insight into Churchill College and its great strengths. Our first and foremost strength is the academic pedigree of our community. Once again, our students have delivered an outstanding set of examinations, with 29% achieving First class results and 48% achieving Upper Seconds. Nine Churchill students have taken University prizes, including the Senior Wrangler prize, awarded to Mr Leo Lai, for coming top of the Tripos in Part II Mathematics. This is the first time in over fifty years that the Senior Wrangler has been a Churchillian. By way of comparison with other Cambridge colleges, Churchill remains academically strong. Supporting our Students In my view, there are two fundamental reasons why we should be proud of our academic success. Firstly, we invest significant time and effort into admitting students who have the ability and focus to make the most of the opportunity to study at Churchill. Secondly, we commit our full force to supporting our students academically and pastorally, to enable them to be the best they can be and to realise their full potential. With these things in mind, we owe a debt of thanks to our Admissions Tutors, Directors of Studies, pastoral Tutors and staff who work with admirable drive and determination to nurture and champion each and every member of our student body.

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The fifth most subscribed College in Cambridge This year, Churchill was the fifth most The Strongest subscribed College in Cambridge, in terms cohort on paper of undergraduate applications. Student of any previous year attendance at a number of our Open Days reached a record high and our offer holders, who we hope will join us in October, are the strongest cohort on paper of any previous year in recent history. There is every reason to expect that our academic successes will continue in years to come. The Oxbridge College with the highest percentage of state-sector admissions In the 2015 Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission’s State of the Nation report, Churchill was identified as the College in Oxford and Cambridge which has the highest percentage of state-sector admissions, and we continue to invest heavily in outreach and widening participation. For example, we are now working closely with the Welsh Government’s Seren (“star” in Welsh) national network for gifted students which engages able sixth formers in Wales’ state schools and colleges. Seren is loosely based on Cambridge’s HE + initiative, in as much as it divides Wales into 11 “hubs,” each of which contains a number of schools and colleges. The hubs regularly gather able students together (over 200 at some events), to inspire them and work on improving their attainment and progress aspirations. With colleagues at St Hilda’s College, Oxford, we are also piloting a similar programme for the S7 Colleges; a consortium of nine sixth form colleges in Surrey and Sussex. Need for more women in STEM Subjects We are also working hard to address our weaknesses, with one of our primary objectives being to increase the number of female students who apply to read STEM subjects at Churchill. Given our historic commitment to inspire and nurture the next generation of leading scientists, engineers and mathematicians, we are uniquely placed within Cambridge to take the lead on promoting STEM subjects to female students. Of course our Master, Professor Dame Athene Donald, is already recognised as a champion of women in science and has successfully led numerous related initiatives both within the University and on the national stage, including directing Cambridge University’s Women in Science,

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Engineering and Technology Initiative (WiSETI), acting as the University’s first Gender Equality Champion, and chairing the Athena Forum. Building Self-Confidence in our Female Students To help raise Churchill’s profile as a College that Enhancing female seeks to empower and encourage more young students selfwomen to study STEM subjects, Dr Lisa Jardineconfidence Wright ran the first female-only residential course in physical sciences for thirty sixth form students in April of this year, with great success (please see page 54).We are also working on addressing the University-wide problem of discrepancies in examination performance by gender. I am pleased to report that Churchill’s female students achieved more Firsts and Upper Seconds than our males this year, though the percentage of Firsts awarded to our females still falls behind that of our males. Given that Churchill is home to a world class, dedicated leadership development training resource in the form of the Møller Centre, and given that lack of confidence is a reason often cited for underperformance within female student bodies, we ran the first Leadership Course for a cohort of our undergraduate students this year. The students who enrolled learnt fundamental aspects of leadership with the aim of enhancing their confidence in study and encouraging them to begin to develop their personal narrative; what they represent and how this will shape their future (please see page 98). Adapting to the Changing Landscape of the Admissions Process We are making positive steps to improve our student provision, and we are adapting to the changing landscape of the admissions process due to the roll out of University-wide, subject-specific assessments in the coming round. These assessments will provide us with an additional piece of information on our first cohort of applicants who, in most cases, will not present AS-Level examination results (which have been central to our decision-making in recent years). We are also closely following the progress of the Government’s Higher Education and Research Bill. What that will look like a year hence remains to be determined but I am confident that our good practices in teaching and widening participation will stand us in good stead to adapt in due course to the proposed changes.

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Proud to be part of the Churchill Community So, as we come to the end of the academic year and I prepare to slip back into the shadows and make way for Richard Partington to return, my overarching feeling is pride. I am proud to be part of a community in which Fellows, staff and students share not only the same goal of academic excellence but the same ethos for achieving it. With so many extraordinarily capable students, such a committed Fellowship, and such a dedicated and professional body of staff, it has been a real privilege to be Senior Tutor of Churchill College this year.

Sally Boss

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A Vibrant and Multinational Community The Tutor for Advanced Students’ Report (2015-2016) Dr Barry Kingston,Tutor for Advanced Students, tells us about the many achievements of our current and past Advanced Students. The graduate community at Churchill is a vibrant and multinational community, comprising students from over seventy different countries.The cultural diversity of these students imbues the College with a rich and academically stimulating atmosphere. The College welcomes more than 130 new Graduate students every year, and their interests cover the full range of arts and science subjects available within the University. In any one year we have a total graduate community of around 300 students. The Conference on Everything The very excellent College MCR continues to organize the annual Conference on Everything.This event provides a genial platform for graduates to make short presentations on their work to Fellows and fellow graduates. The invited keynote speaker this year was an alumnus of the College, Dr Ramsey Faragher. Dr Ramsey is now the CEO and Founder of Focal Point Positioning Ltd, and a ByeFellow of Queens’ College. He gave an inspirational presentation on his work on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS)-denied positioning, sensor fusion, and machine-learning for navigation systems. Excellent Presentations and Posters from the MCR included such topics as The Sustainability of Metal Resources, Understanding the Brain with Complex Network Theory, Trauma, Memory and Shame: Gender Discourse in Contemporary German Family Novels, and Biosynthesis of Oxazole Antibiotics in Bacteria. Developing Outstanding Careers Our graduates continue to excel and develop outstanding careers. Examples include two graduate Churchillians that have been named among the 30 most influential Europeans by Forbes Magazine in their inaugural ‘30 Under 30’

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Europe list. Karolis Misiūnas, and Steven Marsh have been listed in the Science and Healthcare category. Another example is Nikita Hari who is working for a PhD in the Department of Engineering. Her work aims to explore a better way of converting ‘electric power’ using devices made of the novel material – ‘Gallium Nitride’(GaN),which have the potential to jump-start the nextgeneration of smaller, faster, denser, lighter, cheaper and hence, efficient power converters. She was the Chairperson of the EPSRC Centre for Power Electronics Post Graduate Forum and also the chair of the first edition of UK Power Electronics Summer School 2015. Currently she serves as the Secretary of IEEE-Cambridge; CamAwise Steering Committee and Beyond Profit Cambridge Conference Director. Excelling in extra-curricular activities As well as being academically very Being both academically strong, our MCR students also have a strong and excelling in wide range of extracurricular interests extra-curricular activities and many excel in these areas. This term for example, the Winston Churchill Scholars put on a music recital that included works by Mozart, Schubert, Dvořák, and Prokofiev, and also three outstanding pieces composed by one of the Scholars, Evan O’Dorney, who completed the year with a Distinction in the Master of Advanced Study (MASt) in Mathematics. Laura Bateman, a sixth-year medical student, represented Cambridge in the 29th annual Rugby Union Varsity Match in December 2015 that Cambridge won 52-0, a remarkable victory and a landmark occasion, since it was the first time that the women played at Twickenham (page 59). Xiotian Fu Another highlight of the year was the dedication of an area within the College grounds as a garden designed to provide a quiet and contemplative space for College members. The funds for the garden were generously provided by one of our alumni, Xiotian Fu. Xiotian is an alumnus of the College, having graduated with an MPhil degree in Education in 2007. Xiotian subsequently carved out a very successful career in the media and for several years now she has been the host of “Talk with World Leaders” a Chinese television one-to-one talk show

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covering world affairs. During her time in this position Xiotian has interviewed many major political figures including Henry Kissinger, John Kerry, John Key, and Aleksandar Vučić. Don Pinchin Another generous alumni gift has allowed the hugely successful enlargement and improvement of the graduate housing at 64 Storeys Way. For this the College is sincerely indebted to the generosity of Dr Donald Pinchin and his wife, Lydia. Don, who died in 2015, graduated with a Master’s degree from Cambridge in 1973. During the dedication ceremony, 64 Storeys Way was named Pinchin Riley House. As we learned from his daughter, Karin, during the ceremony, Don had regarded his time at Churchill as one of the most important periods in his life and he held Churchill and its open and friendly ethos, in very high esteem. Chris Riley also attended the ceremony. In recognition of the friendship given to Don and herself by Chris Riley, Lydia named the house Pinchin Riley House. Chris had been MCR President when Don arrived and through his kindness and encouragement he had had a major role in making Don’s time at Churchill such a success. Graduate housing is in great demand in Cambridge, and plans are in the pipeline for a new graduate accommodation building within the College grounds. These are interesting though currently, particularly following the EU referendum, somewhat uncertain times for graduate education, but we are optimistic and to quote words often but perhaps apocryphally attributed to our founder, ‘A pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.’

Barry Kingston

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The Year the College was led by women … Bursar’s Report (2015-2016) The Bursar reflects on this momentous year when the College was led by women and tells us about what has been achieved and the problems that lie ahead. This is the year that the College has been led by women; alongside the Master, the Bursar, the Domestic Bursar and the CEO of the Moller Centre has been Dr Sally Boss, as Acting Senior Tutor during Richard Partington’s sabbatical leave. We have also had Clara Tang as MCR President. Financial outcome We are facing a not-so-good financial outcome this year and next year as the Moller Centre builds its business in its expanded space and tries to counter the downturn in its Chinese business. This has been a year of redefinition of the business strategy and the role of the Board of Directors and particularly the external Directors has been pivotal in that process. Tim How, Chris Potts and Henrik Tvarno (Maersk nominee) have made a great contribution to helping develop the new strategy. Meanwhile the College’s conference business goes from strength to strength and the College maintenance team continue to improve the lighting and facilities in the meeting spaces of the College.The new permanent exhibition, “Churchill – Founder and Foundation” (page 63) which was a joint effort, both in terms of concept, content and layout by Allen Packwood and Barry Phipps, with lighting by our maintenance department, opened to great acclaim in November and is available to view most days until about 7 pm. It also makes a rather dark and dreary space into a welcoming area for receptions and school visits. Building projects As I write, the finishing touches are being put to Cowan Court (page 102), our new Undergraduate accommodation building next to the tennis courts. The timber framed building has all its bedrooms facing outwards, with large triple-

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glazed windows and window seats. All the rooms have ensuite shower rooms and there is a generous ratio of one kitchen to seven rooms. Over 500 alumni and Fellows have contributed to the project, led by Michael Cowan and Greg Lock.The large meeting room on the ground floor facing North Court is named “The Sixties Room” by the group who contributed to build it, led by Ronald Sandford. We expect to see the building win architectural prizes – but we also expect it to be a big hit with our students and visitors. We are already looking forward to the next Looking forward major accommodation project, the graduate to the next major accommodation just West of the Wolfson Flats, accommodation which we hope to start building late in 2017. project This will consist of 30 ensuite single rooms and 5 more studio flats in three buildings which are being designed by Simon Tucker and Priscilla Fernandes, Churchill alumni, in the award-winning firm Cottrell and Vermeulen Architects. Simon also designed Bondi, Broers and Hawthorne Houses which were built nearby in 2000-2001. His team were awarded the design brief for our next development in an architectural competition held by the College. Support for the Arts and Humanities The performance of the College conference business has enabled us to devote more of our income next year to supporting graduate studentships in the Arts and Humanities, in line with the College strategy for our graduate community. We were also assisted by the generous donation last year from Gideon Yuval to double the endowment of the Gulbenkian Studentship Fund which has been renamed the Gulbenkian Yuval Fund in honour of his father (see Review 2015). Leading the field We find ourselves, yet again in the spotlight, with the need to introduce “Prevent” training to help identify and support vulnerable individuals be they students or staff, from extremism. We have also faced increasing pressure to demonstrate our commitment to widening participation without being able to use Bursaries for undergraduates as one example. As part of our agreement with OFFA the inter-collegiate body has had to demonstrate increased expenditure year on year. Thankfully, Churchill virtually leads the field in terms

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of pro-active interventions to encourage applications from under-represented groups.We retain an excellent proportion of students who have been educated in the state sector. However, this along with our increased contribution to the Cambridge Bursary Scheme, has added an additional financial burden and with the ÂŁ9,000 fee, students are increasingly seeking support for internships, and extra-mural activities such as sport and music.

Jennifer Brook

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Challenging but Rewarding! Domestic Bursar's Report (2015-2016) Shelley Surtees, College’s Domestic Bursar and Fellow, explains to us what her job entails and gives us a fascinating insight into the many facets of her role and duties – from welcoming Freshers, participating in induction activities, supporting Spring Ball, being involved in construction projects such as Cowan Court, helping alleviate exam stress to promoting and hosting commercial activities. As Domestic Bursar my work is varied and challenging. I am often asked what I like more; term time or vacation, and which is harder. The simple truth is that I like both equally, and they are both challenging but rewarding. Welcoming Freshers The start of the Michaelmas term this year saw us, as usual, welcoming a new cohort of Undergraduate and Advanced Students. I like to be here on arrival day to meet new faces and welcome back returners. Up to this point my colleagues in the admissions and tutorial offices have worked tirelessly to prepare for these new students admission to College, but on arrival day it’s over to me, and my team, to make them welcome, smooth out the inevitable minor issues with accommodation and catering and reassure often nervous and overwhelmed new arrivals that Churchill is the right place for them for the next few years. Over the next week or so we support many of the induction activities for the new cohort; fire training, practice drills, cycle safety and Freshers’ squash, to name but a few. I also have the great privilege of dealing with the domestic requirements of those who have specific physical needs and who have been working with the Disability Resource Centre. This is often just a minor case of providing a fridge for medication, or ensuring that their room is suitably located, but may be more complex and involve the procurement and installation of specialist equipment and the development of a personal emergency evacuation plan.

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Supporting Spring Ball In February the annual Spring Ball, with the theme of ‘Vault’, occurred.With two excellent presidents and a committed, enthusiastic committee the event went off without a hitch, although not without masses of work behind the scenes from both the students and the staff, who worked diligently as a really effective team. New Building and Refurbishment This year I have been supporting the Opportunity to Bursar in the Cowan Court project. accommodate more This exciting new development of 68 undergraduates and host new double ensuite rooms will enable commercial activities us to accommodate all four years of undergraduates and have a significant impact on our opportunities for the hosting of commercial activities during the vacations. We have also been undertaking refurbishment of some of the staircases in line with our refurbishment programme. This refurbishment is mostly driven by the need to rewire and modernise the staircases, but this year we have also undertaken a project to convert one of the staircases to Advanced Student accommodation, with the provision of large kitchen dining rooms to provide suitable communal space. In addition we have also refurbished one of the Fellows’ staircases, in an attempt to bring their accommodation up to a reasonable standard. As always the resident Fellows have been extremely tolerant of the disruption and my office, mostly Jane Dixon, have conducted a massive juggling operation to get everyone moved in time to start the work in a timely fashion. Wellness Week During the Easter team, as the exam stress for the students built, the Senior Tutor allowed me to run a ‘Wellness Week’ where we encouraged the students, with a range of different activities, to take responsibility for their own mental health during what is, for many, a very stressful time. Knowing that people who are struggling are unlikely to participate in activities which are difficult to access we set up stall in the Buttery with a range of jigsaws, colouring books and crocheting materials. We ran regular mindfulness and yoga workshops and did a number of guided walks around the grounds including one up the Moller Centre tower which was extremely well received.

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Commercial Operations It’s been an exciting year for my team and the commercial operation. Despite fairly challenging trading conditions we have managed to maintain sales just over the 2 million mark, returning to the College a gross profit of c. 70%. For the third year we have hosted the Kazakhstan British Technical University (KBTU) for an Academic Leadership programme and a High Performance Computing technical programme.The Academic Leadership Programme was conceived and organised for KBTU senior academics and administrators by a Fellow of the College, the High Performance Computing was led by a Computing Service Officer who delivered a similar programme last year that was overseen by College Fellows. Both programmes were very well received and had very high feedback scores. These revenue raising programmes provide us with valuable income but also allow us to mix with some interesting individuals from far away. Elsewhere in the commercial operation we have benefited from our previous hard work and attention to detail with the return of many of our regular clients. Our mantra remains ‘Care, Commitment & Consistency’ and all of the team recognise our mission to contribute to the Academic Excellence of the College with our financial contribution.

Shelley Surtees

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Transporting you back in time and space The Director of the Archives Centreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Report (2015-2016) Allen Packwood, the Director of the Archives Centre, tells us vividly how the Archives blog posts can transport us in time and space and recounts all the events that took place at the archives this last year. One new and rather interesting way to review the Archives Centre year is to look back over our blog posts, available on-line at www.chu.cam.ac.uk/news. I often argue that the value of archives lies in their ability to transport you back to a particular moment in time and space, and these posts do the same.They show what we considered important, what we tried to promote, and capture our first attempts to describe what we were doing. In the future they will have to be archived! What do they tell us? Firstly that in the last academic year the Centre has engaged in a very wide range of events.At the top end of the scale we have the symposium on political leadership. Click on the relevant piece and you can watch Lord Mandelson making clear his views on the current Labour Party leadership. Then there was the visit by the American Ambassador, Matthew Barzun, himself the grandson of an early Overseas Fellow. We have a wonderful picture of His Excellency in the Jock Colville Hall, beneath the names of his illustrious predecessors, using a flip chart to illustrate his views on the positive nature of American global engagement. In March, Sir Roderic Lyne deftly stepped in for Sir John Major and gave his insiderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s perspective on the early years of the Northern Ireland peace process. Such events link the Centre to the big political themes of the day. But we have also entertained Arctic convoy veterans, helped launch the latest novel by Barbara Taylor Bradford, enabled Uruguayans to commemorate the life of a British Ambassador who was kidnapped in their country, and engaged with local schoolchildren by hosting an exhibition on the Cambridge Refugee Committee and its role in housing Jewish children in the months before the outbreak of the Second World War. These were not random events. They were held by us because they tied into our collections. Thanks to Stephen Roskill and

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others we have a wealth of naval material to the Russian convoys. Barbara Taylor Bradford was inspired to visit by a letter she received as a child from Clementine Churchill, and which she has now given to the Centre. We house the papers of Sir Geoffrey Jackson, including his harrowing first-hand accounts of his abduction by the Tupamaros guerrilla group, and we have the archive of Professor Robert Hutton, including the case files relating to some of the Jewish child refugees; one of whom, Susanne Meadas, came and spoke, but has sadly since died. The blog posts provide a wonderful way of The blog posts highlighting the strength and breadth of our highlight the collections.We have been able to reveal new strength and breath material, like the recently catalogued papers of our collections of Sarah Churchill, Sir Winstonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s daughter and a Hollywood actress who danced on screen with Fred Astaire. And we have been able to show some of the historical evidence for the debate on Britainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s relationship with the European Union (for which we will now be collecting rather more material), as well as for the centenaries of the battles of Jutland and the Somme. The good news is that an analysis of the blog posts also suggests that the work of the Archives Centre and the importance of its collections have not gone unnoticed. For during the year we have also been able to talk about our success in gaining Accreditation from the National Archives, a confirmation that the Centre clearly meets defined national standards, while our core Churchill Papers collection has been inscribed on the UNESCO Memory of the World Register, the archival equivalent to world heritage status. So, my thanks to the Archives Centre team, not just for their hard work, but also for writing it up online so all can follow our progress as it happens. With a particular mention in despatches to Katharine Thomson and Naomi Morris for keeping our blogs updated.

Allen Packwood

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An Exciting Year CEO of the Møller Centre’s Report (2015-2016) Gillian Secrett, the CEO of the Møller Centre is telling us about the exciting year the Centre had across all areas of its business; the host venue, the delivery of bespoke leadership development programmes and executive education as well as the work of the partners in the Møller Professional Service Firms Group. The year started with the launch of our new extended facilities thanks to the generous donation from the A.P Møller and Chastine Mc-Kinney Møller Foundation and the support of the College. Our clients now benefit from additional collaborative learning suites suitable for creative leadership development programmes as well as additional well proportioned bedrooms, an extended reception with the Hans J. Wegner Lounge and two new outside terrace areas for work, reflection and relaxation. Voted the best UK Centre in 2016 for the fifth time The reputation of the Centre continues to grow and the Centre was again voted the best UK Management Training Centre in 2016, which is the fifth time in six years we have won this prestigious industry award. The majority of our clients come to develop their management and senior leadership teams and we have continued to play host to a series of high profile and international programmes for significant clients in the private sector including: Shell, ARM, Johnson Matthey, AstraZeneca and Caterpillar; the public sector including: Cambridge City Council and Addenbrookes NHS Foundation Trust; the professional service firms sector including: PwC, KPMG; several of the “magic circle” law firms and for the University the Departments of History and Economics, Judge Business School, Institute for Manufacturing and the Institute for Sustainability leadership. Bespoke Leadership Programmes Bespoke leadership development programmes have been delivered to key clients throughout the year to meet the growing need for leaders to develop the capability to engage their people to navigate and deliver in the disruptive landscape

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in which they lead. The Møller Centre is Helping leaders helping leaders to develop the ability and navigate through behaviours to influence the mind-sets and difficult times and culture of their people and organisations to become more agile become more innovative, fast moving and in adapting to an successful. Leaders work on their self ever changing world awareness, impact and agility and their ability to engage high performance teams as well as working on their own physical and mental state developing resilience to handle the constantly changing context of their leadership.The focus of our work this year has been on the media, technology and engineering sectors in the UK and USA and banking, business and healthcare sectors in China. The Møller PSFG group has delivered Partner development programmes across the five key practice areas of strategy, leadership, talent, business development and coaching to firms such as DLA Piper, Allen & Overy and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. The Churchill Leadership Programmes The Churchill Leadership Fellows young leaders’ programme which we have completed during the course of the year has been a great success giving 24 outstanding 19 – 24 year olds the confidence and skills to make a positive impact on their lives and future careers.We were also able to offer a similar leadership programme, adapted to work around the undergraduates study commitments in College, to a group of Churchill undergraduates. This programme aimed to help enhance their self-awareness, resilience and confidence in order to excel in their study. It also aimed to assist them in identifying a future career pathway aligned to their passions and life purpose to enhance their impact and fulfillment. Supporting the Community The Centre team continued to support the community this year with the East Anglian Air Ambulance (EAAA) as its chosen charity. During the year £2108.70 was donated from the various staff activities including a night at the races and a quiz night in addition to the 50 pence donation for each client feedback form completed.

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Support from Fellows and Alumni We were delighted that Ane Maersk Mc-Kinney Uggla become an Honorary Fellow of Churchill College in 2015 and that Henrik Tvarnø the CEO of The Foundation continued to support us through his role on the Møller Board of Directors, together with the two other external non executive directors, Tim How and Chris Potts, both Alumni of Churchill College. The support of the Fellows and Alumni of the College working as part of Møller Board of Directors and being involved in our Executive Education programmes is much appreciated by the team at The Møller Centre as well as being valued highly by our clients.

Gillian Secrett

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Our Best Year in Fundraising in 25 years! Development Director’s Report (2015-2016) John Pennant, Churchill Development Director, has had a very good year in fundraising. In his report, he is giving us an account of the major gifts bequeathed to College. 2015/16 was our best year in fundraising in 25 years with £5million in gifts and pledges to support the College. On behalf of the College, I would like to thank our donors (listed on pages ) including Development Board members Michael Cowan (U70 Eng) Chair, Greg Lock (U66 Nat Sci) and Dr Tony Wild (G68 Phys Chem).Together these three are all Benefactor Fellows giving more than £1million each as well as volunteering over 250 hours of their time, including traveling to meet with alumni in America. Michael and his wife Hilary also represented the College in Asia and met with alumni in Hong Kong and Singapore. Michael Cowan has written an article on why philanthropic support for Churchill College is a great investment (see page). I am grateful to Dr Tony Wild for his investment of £500k for five years to support the Alumni & Development Office to build a corporate partnership programme and, Greg & Rosie Lock for their gift to student bursary support as well as Greg’s support to our office on alumni outreach activities. This Year’s Events Over this past year our office worked with the Association chaired by Rosie Johnston including a very successful Association weekend and visit to Bletchley Park. We had a successful Reunion Dinner, a talk on “Melting Ice Sheets” at the Royal Institution given by Churchillians Prof David Vaughan (U81 NatSci) Dir of Science, British Antarctic Survey and Prof Eric Wolff (U&G75 NatSci), an inaugural dinner with Computer Science students and lectures by Churchillian Dr Bjarne Stroustrop (inventor of C++) in San Francisco and Cambridge. We also had a successful event at the V&A on the Ove Arup Exhibition “Engineering the World” that featured alumnus Joe Halligan (U06 Architecture), this year’s winner of the Turner Prize award (see page ??), who spoke about art and architecture.

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Major Gifts We had several major gift announcements The college is including a generous benefaction from grateful to alumni for Lydia Luckevich and the Pinchin Family. Dr their generous gifts Don Pinchin was a Graduate student at Churchill in Physics from 1973-76 and built a successful environmental building consultancy firm in Canada. The College recognised this gift by naming Pinchin Riley House at 64 Storey’s Way (see page). Xiaotian Fu (G06 Education), a journalist with Phoenix TV and host of the programme “Talk with World Leaders”, gave a generous major gift. The College recognised her support in creating a new Xiaotian Fu Garden and will disburse funding for other College priorities. We also announced the opening of the new Cowan Court. Thanks to eight years of work, over 700 people contributed to this campaign. In recognition of Michael Cowan’s work on the College’s Investment Advisory Committee and Development Board, and his generous benefaction, the College has named the building ‘Cowan Court’. As we begin a new year it is important to reflect on the lives that are being helped and the impact of giving. Our student stories can be found on our website at: www.chu.cam.ac.uk/news/2015/dec/4/student-stories/ Lost Alumni One area where we hope for more success, which has historically been low compared to other Colleges, is increasing the number of alumni donors. We also need help in finding lost alumni, for which we have the highest number of any College. That will take additional resources and a collective effort. For example, we are asking alumni to help us in finding lost alumni. Focussing on Fundraising We will be focusing fundraising on generating an endowment for bursaries to support students in need. The College and The Møller Centre are offering leadership programmes and scholarships are needed to contribute to supporting the programme costs.We aim to accelerate the process of educating the next generation of leaders.We are also embarking on a building programme for Advanced Students and that is another priority, as well as the Churchill Archives and several academic posts.

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Thanks to Colleagues and Staff The College is tremendously grateful to the Development Board for galvanising support and reigniting interest amongst alumni and friends in the College. I also want to take this opportunity to thank my colleagues Annabel Busher (Development Officer), and Anna-Maria Piotrowska (Development Assistant) for all their hard work and support in organising many activities and events for alumni and friends. Also, to thank Gillian Secrett, CEO, MĂ¸ller Centre and Allen Packwood, Director, Churchill Archives Centre, for our work together in raising the Collegeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s profile in the US and pursuing fundraising opportunities.

John Pennant

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“No one has ever become poor by giving.” Anne Frank

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Donations 2015-16 We are very grateful to all the following who have chosen to support Churchill College. All those listed below have made a gift during the period 1st July 2015 to 30th June 2016. (N.B. Gifts made after this date will be acknowledged in next yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Review.) Dr J W J Akroyd 1997 Dr U Akuwudike 2002 Mr D Alafouzos 1998 Dr R V Aldridge 1963 Mr A H Almihdar 1964 Mr N A Altmann 1991 Dr P J Ancliff 1987 Dr R A Ancliff 1986 Mr P J S Arch 2002 Mr M Arena Mr C M L Argent 1962 Mr T Armitage 1982 Dr D Armstrong 1971 Dr H Ashraf 1989 Mr L Ashton 1994 Mrs J Bacon (Rushton) 1974 Mr N Bacon 1974 Mr A M F Bailey 1986 Dr N E Baker 1979 Dr A J Ball 1990 Mr J A Ballard 1964 Mr A Bannard-Smith 2001 Dr A C Barbrook 1996 Mr A J Barefoot 1993 Mr J C Barlow 1963 Dr T N Basit 1988 Mrs M Bell (Deletant) 1993 Dr D J Bernasconi 1992 Dr R Beroukhim 1991 Mr J E Berriman 1967 Ms L C Berzins 1995 Mr K Bhargava 1981

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Dr T Biberauer 2012 Dr T A Bicanic 1990 Mr L E Bigler 1967 Bill Brown Charitable Trust Mr P T Bird 1975 Dr R J Black 1987 Miss V Blackburn Ms C E Blackmun 1974 Dr A Blackwell (Leech-Wilkinson) 1981 Mr T J Bond 1982 Mrs E Booth (Lambert) 2001 Dr G S Booth 1968 Dr P A Booth 2000 Mrs D Boss Mr G Boss Dr S Boss 2006 Mr P G Bossom 1970 Mr R Botero Robledo 2000 Dr I L Bratchie 1976 Mr M R Brazier 1995 Ms C R Brett 1991 Mr B O Brierton 1994 Mrs K H Brierton (Pratt) 1994 Mr M A Brinded 1971 Mr R D Brockbank 1996 Dr D C Brodbelt 1987 Mrs J Brook 1999 Dr A J Brown 1988 Ms T M Brown 1973 Dr J H Brunton 1963 Dr W G Burgess 1988 Ms A Calvert 1982

Mr N Canetty-Clarke 1988 Mrs A A Canning (Jarrett) 1975 Mr W J Capper 1961 Mr I Carnaby 1967 Dr M Caroe Reverend C Carson Dr P A Catarino 1988 Mr T A Cave 1971 Dr D A Chaplin 1984 Mr P Chown 1990 Mr D B Christie 1996 Mrs S J J Christie (Chou) 1996 Dr S P Churchhouse 1985 Dr P Cicuta 2000 Mr P M C Clarke 1961 Mr P R Clarke 1974 Mrs S M Clements (Burton) 1981 Miss J D Cockcroft Lady Cockell Sir Cockell Professor J R D Coffey 1988 Mr M Cohen 2010 Dr A J Cole 1967 Mr B L Collings 1980 Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region, Inc. Ms V S Connolly 1987 Sir Alcon Copisarow 2000 Mrs J N Corbett (Banfield)1997 Mr R I Coull 1983 Mr M Cowan 1970 Dr J R Crabtree 1965 Mr M A Craven 1985 Mr N Crews 2000 Mr T J L Cribb 1970 Dr A J Crisp 1968 Mr H Crow Cryptomathic Limited Mr A Cullen 1975 Mr T S Culver 1963 Professor T W Cusick 1964 Dr N Cutler 2011 Mrs D H Daft Mr D N Daft Daft Family Foundation Mr L G Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Agliano 1980 Mr N Davidson Mr D W N Davies 1980 Mr H A J Davies 1972 Mr R J Davies 1962

Mr R M Davies 1969 Mr R Davis Mr P C de Boor 1988 Professor S T de Grey 1963 Mr A C Dean 1985 Mr B Dean Dr N W Dean 1965 Mr D R Deboys 1999 Mr F J Deegan Dr E DeMarrais 2000 Mr N J Denbow 1964 Mr M Dennis The Diana Parker Charitable Trust Mrs C Dixon (Strutt) 1994 Miss G L Dixon 2005 Mr R H T Dixon 1985 Dr R M Dixon 1978 Mr K R Doble 1981 Mrs L A Doble (Kendall) 1979 Mr A P Docherty 1966 Professor Dame Athene Donald 2014 Dr M Donald 2015 Mr P A Dornan 1982 Dr C Ducati 1999 Mr A P Duff 1979 Mr G Dunlop Mrs V Dunlop Mr D M M Dutton 1962 The Reverend J M Dyer (Lloyd) 1979 Dr R T Elias 1984 Dr C A Elliott (Mills) 1973 Professor J Elliott 1973 Mr M L Ellis 1981 Dr R Elsdon 1972 Dr G Evans 1968 Mr J R Farrell 1980 Mr D M Fineman 1991 Dr R M Fisher 1978 Ms C Flaherty Dr C Fraser 1976 Mrs E D French (Medd) 1978 Mr P C French 1978 Mr M R Frith 1969 Ms X T Fu 2006 Mr P R A Fulton 1970 Dr F G Furniss 1973 Mrs S C Galloway 1989 Mr N A W M Garthwaite 1970 Mr M Gavin 2000 The GE Foundation

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Dr M Ghidini 2012 Mr J M Gibbs 1993 Professor M R J Gibbs 1977 Professor R J Gilbert 1979 Mrs A M Gill (Bradshaw) 1976 Mr S L Gill 1976 Mr R Giniyatov 2004 Mr C M Glencross 1991 Mr L J Glenister 2006 Professor M A Goldie 1979 Goldman Sachs & Company Mr G R A Gomberg 1967 Mrs J E Goodland (Terry) 1974 Mr P M Goodland 1973 Mr M Gotham 2013 Dr C Goulimis 1977 Mr D Grace Mrs P Grace Ms E Gray 2005 Dr D J Graziano 1979 Mr S T Green 1961 Dr D R Grey 1966 Ms D L Grubbe 1977 Dr J Grzeskowiak (Ellison) 1973 Dr N E Grzeskowiak 1973 Professor Sir John Gurdon 1973 Mrs G Guthrie Dr R J Guthrie 1969 Mrs J Gwilt (Smyth) 1993 Mr A P Hall 1993 Mrs T A Hall (Prosser) 1982 Mr M Hammler 1979 Mr M E S Handley 1961 Dr S P Harden 1987 Dr C A Harper 1981 Mr M E Harper 1967 Mr P T W Harrington 1991 Mr B A Harris 1980 Mr S J Harris 1996 Dr T L Harris 1994 Mr G F Hart 2000 Professor J Hart 2007 The Hart Charitable Trust Mr C Harvey 1965 Mr J Hazelden 1966 Mr N J Hazell 1975 Professor A F Heavens 1977 Judge Edward Hess Dr C M Hicks 1989 Mr J J Higgins 1984

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Mr J A Higham QC 1971 Dr P Hilton 1967 Mr M S Hoather 1994 Dr J R Hobdell 1987 Dr A N Hobden 1972 Dr J W D Hobro 1991 Dr D S Hoddinott 1963 Dr P D Hodson 1979 Mr A O Hold 1991 Dr R W Holti 1974 Mr M P Honey 1992 Mr R Hopkin Mr J Hopkins Mr C Howell 1997 Mr J C R Hudson 1971 Mrs I Hull (Clark) 1978 Mr A J Hutchinson 1968 Mr J Ingle 1972 Mr T C W Ingram 1966 Mr A C Innes 1987 Professor R Jackman 1964 Dr P T Jackson 1962 Dr D H Jaffer 1976 Jane Street Dr A P Jardine 1998 Dr L Jardine-Wright 2012 Dr A Jeffrey Mrs L Jensen (Ehlers) Mr G T Johnson 1961 Dr M A Johnson 1972 Dr M W Johnston 1986 Ms R Johnston 1973 Dr D Joinson 1995 Ms V C Jolliffe 1973 Mr A W S Jones 1985 Dr C N Jones 1978 Mr I Jones 1981 Dr R I Jones 1978 Mr T H Jones 1972 Mr J Justus 1998 Professor C M Kahn 1975 Professor T Kailath 1977 Professor P A Kalra 1976 Dr S G Martin 1977 Mr B W Kettle Mr T A Key 1965 Mrs A N King 1994 Mr D E W King 1961 Mr N G Kingan 1961 Mr W M Kinsey 1970

Mr J P Knight Dr E A Kohll 1961 Professor M H Kramer 1994 Professor L Krause 1976 Dr B J G A Kress 2006 Dr S J Kukula 1984 Mr A J Lake 1985 Mr H S Lake 1965 Dr F Lamb 1976 Mr A J Lambert 1993 Dr D C Lancashire 1964 Miss V Larder 1997 Mr I M Lawrie 1987 Dr G J Le Poidevin 1971 Mrs S Lee Dr C E Lee-Elliott 1987 Mr A E Leigh-Smith 1961 Dr A M Lewis 1983 Mr C B Lewis QC 1978 Mr M Lewis 1964 Dr W Lewis-Bevan 1979 Mr M Lewsley 2013 Dr E T Libbey 1966 Professor E Lieb Mr R M Little 1993 Dr R K Livesley 1960 Mr L P M Lloyd-Evans 1967 Mr G H Lock 1966 Mr P N Locke 1966 Ms E Lopez-Gunn 1992 Professor R V E Lovelace 1994 Professor R M Loynes 1962 Mr J P Lucas 1989 Mrs L Luckevich Dr H F Luckhurst 1978 Professor D E Luscombe 1964 Dr O D Lyne 1989 Professor A V P Mackay 1970 Mr D A Mackenzie 1999 Professor M Maheswaran 1964 Dr F W Maine 1960 Dr D C A Mant 1969 Mr C P S Markham 1965 Mr H F A Marriott 1963 Professor J H Marsh 1974 Mr M H Mayes 1968 Mr M McCarthy Mrs M McCarthy Mr P McCarthy 1995 Mr J M McGee 1969

Dr C A McGill 1981 McKinsey & Co. UK Dr T McManus 1965 Mr C G McNally 1976 Mr P Merson 1969 Microsoft Corporation Mr G P Middleton 1985 Mr M W Middleton 1992 The Reverend Dr P G Miller 1985 Mr R J Miller 1983 Mr A J Milne 2000 Mr L A Z Mirza 1980 Mr N R E Miskin 1966 Professor K Mislow 1975 Dr P J Mole 1971 The Moller Centre Mr G Mond Dr D R Moore 1967 Mr K D Morris 1985 Mr S D Morrish1989 Dr M Morse Mrs C H Narracott (Crocker) 1987 Mr S G Narracott 1988 Professor D M G Newbery 1966 Dr D J Norfolk 1968 Ms G Nurse 1987 Mr T R Oakley 1977 Dr C Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Kane 1996 Dr S Oldfield 1974 Professor R J Oldman 1961 Professor D T Otley 1963 Mr C D Otley 1994 Dr C E Otley 1991 Mr M M Otway 1967 Mr C H Palmer 1994 Dr K M Pang 1987 Ms D Papagianni Ms D C Parker 1976 Dr P J Parsons 1989 Mr B J Patel 1987 Dr A J Pauza 1993 Mrs S Pearce (Bailey)1976 Mr D A Pedropillai 1983 Mr J Pennant 2014 Professor E B Perrin (1991) Mr S M J Peskett 1961 Mr J R Peters 1990 Dr K Pichler 1991 Dr D J Pinchin 1973 Mr C S Pocock 1970

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Mr J M Pocock 1969 Ms S L Poland 1977 Mr A D Ponting 1990 Mr J G Potter 1963 Mr D Potts 1970 Mrs G M Potts (Black) 1972 Mr G C Pyke 1963 Professor R B Pynsent 1963 Dr Y Raef 1966 Mr A V Ramsay 1967 Dr S A Rawstron 1977 Mr M K Redhead 1966 Dr E J Rees 2001 Mr M K Rees 1974 Dr A Reid 2005 Mr J J H Reilly 1984 Mrs D Resch (Christian) 1998 Professor D J Reynolds Dr D E Reynolds 1975 Dr R A Reynolds (Dixon) 1975 Professor P Rez 1970 Mr S Richards 2007 Mr W Rider Mr C M E Riley 1972 Professor J Riley 1982 Dr R H Rives Mr D Roberts 1992 Dr J D Roberts 1970 Dr T L Roberts 1965 Mr B H A Robinson 1991 Mrs S M Robinson 1976 Mr G K Rock-Evans 1963 Mr H G Rock-Evans 2001 Mr T E B Rose 2005 Mr A H Rosenberg 1968 Rushbrook Charitable Trust Ms C Roskill Mr N Roskill Mr T Roskill Mr S D Rothman 1982 Dr M S Roulston 1991 Professor D B Rutledge 1973 Mr M T Rutter 1982 The Hon. Mr Justice Sales 1980 Mrs J E Salmon (Mathie) 1976 Mr R H N Salmon 1962 Mr G K Sampson 1965 Mr R J Sandford 1965 Schlumberger Cambridge Research Limited

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Schwab Fund for Charitable Giving Dr D M Schwartz 1966 Mr M H Schwarz 1980 Dr E R D Scott 1965 Dr I R Scott 1971 Mrs P Scott Miss A C M Scott-Bayfield 1993 Dr C D Scrase 1983 Dr T See 1975 Mr G R A Sellers 1970 Mr N R Seymour-Dale 1964 Professor L J Sham 1960 The Sham Family Trust Professor M Shull Professor S D Silver 1994 Dr J H Silverman 1984 Mr W Silverman 1962 Mr C W Smick 1993 Mr P R J Smith 1980 Mr R P Smith 1992 Mrs E Snell Mr S D Sollé 1988 Professor G Sorenson Professor R C Spear 1965 Mr S D Spreadbury 1999 Mr R F Squibbs 1969 Mr R G Stamp 1994 Mr I M Standley 1978 Professor M J R Stark 1973 Mr E M J Steedman 1984 Dr I Stelzer Dr A W Stephenson 1989 Professor D L Stern 1994 Mr G S Stewart 1995 Dr N Stewart 1995 Mr A L Strang 1969 Rt Hon Dr Gavin Strang 1964 Dr M A Stroud 1962 Dr M Sunikka-Blank 2006 Mr C E Sweeney 1979 Mr C E Talbot Mr R J Tarling 1963 Mr C J Tavener 1961 Dr A Taylor 2006 Mr W G Taylor 1971 Mr I Temperton 1992 Dr P H Tennyson 1976 Mr R J Thomas 1986 Mrs I A Thompson (O’Hara) 1977 Mr A S Thomson 1981

Mrs D Thorland Mr E O Thorland 1965 Professor M D Thouless 1978 Mrs S F Tickle (Hanley) 1994 Mr G R Tillman 1984 Mr F E Toolan 1963 Mr Y J Tordoff 1991 Toshiba Dr C Tout 2000 Dr D R Tray 1993 Mr R Trefgarne Dr P N Trewby 1965 Dr A G Tristram 1967 Dr M E Trout Mrs S Trout Dr W Y Tsang 1981 Dr C Tubb 1999 Ms J Turkington 1987 Mr M A Upton 1962 Mr E H Vaizey M.P. Dr P Van Houten 2000 Mr H Vukmanovic 1995 Ms V Vukmanovic (Roberts) 1993 Ms H A Vyse (Ellis) 1981 Mr J M F Wadsworth 1987 Mrs S B Wadsworth (Large) 1987 Mr B J Waldron 1976 Dr C J Walker 1993 Mr R M Walker 1963 Sir David Wallace 2006 Lady Wallace Mr J S de W Waller 1962 Mrs S M Walton (Mackinney) 1972 Mr P F Ward 1999 Dr I Wassell 2006

Mr J Waters 1964 Mr P J Watkins 2000 Mr D G Watson 1963 Mr R C Wenzel 1972 Mr T P Whipple 2000 Dr A S Wierzbicki 1980 Dr A H Wild 1968 Mr H E Williams 1962 Mr I S Wilson 1970 Dr P J Wilson 1990 Winston Churchill Foundation of the US Dr D R Woodall 1962 Mr A R Woodland 1972 Mrs I M Woodland (Waghorne) 1972 Mr E A Workman 1968 Mr A C Worrall 1986 Mr N E Wrigley 1963 Dr S E Wunsch 1992 Mr B Yates 1962 Dr C Yeung 1998 Mr W Wing Yip Dr M V Zammit-Tabona 1968 Ms B Zygarlowska (Wroblewska) 2003 + 30 anonymous donations

Legacies have also been received by the College from the following Estates: The estate of Lady Christine Bondi The estate of Mrs Marie A Finston The estate of Professor A Kelly

Please inform the Development Office if your gift has not been recognised in this list. We will ensure your name appears in the next issue of the Review.

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Donations to the Winston Churchill Foundation of the United States 2015-16 We are very grateful to all the following who have chosen to support Winston Churchill Foundation of the United States. All those listed below have made a gift during the period 1st July 2015 to 30th June 2016. (N.B. Gifts made after this date will be acknowledged in next yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Review.) Dr B S Abella 1992 Mr V S Abrash 1986 Mr R J Adrian 1969 Dr J A Bagger 1977 Dr M Baldonado (Wang) 1990 Professor E P Balskus 2002 Dr C F Batten 1999 Dr C E Beasley 1999 Dr V L Beattie 1988 Dr K M Beck 2009 Dr L K Benninger 1969 Dr C R Bergom 1998 Mr W L Bernhard Dr R Beroukhim 1991 Mr L E Bigler, Jr. 1967 Dr L Bloom 1985 Dr P N Blossey 1992 Dr A Bluher (Wilson) 1983 Dr D S Bomse 1975 Dr J M Bossert 1996 Dr D M Bott 1990 Dr J A Boyan 1991 Dr M Brenner 1965 Mrs D L Brice Mr J J Brink 2001 Dr A O Brown 1993 Mr D D Burrows Mrs N Burrows Mr G J Calhoun 1983 Dr V Callier 2006 Dr A M Cody 2003 Dr S N Coppersmith 1978 Dr T W Cusick 1964 Dr S K Danoff 1985 Dr A B Declan (Long) 2001 Mr P C de Boor 1988 Dr J W Downie 1983 Dr R O Dror 1997 Dr A C Durst 1996

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Professor R Dutch (Ellis) 1986 Mr B Dyer, III Dr M Ebert (Kesavan) 2003 Dr P R Eisenhardt 1978 Dr G Ellison 1987 Professor A L Erickcek 2003 Dr W F Feehery 1992 Dr J N Fields III 1971 Dr D A Fike 2001 Mr C Finch 2014 Mr D I Foy 1969 Mr D Fried 2014 Dr S Friedman 1990 Dr C D Frost 1979 Gabelli Family Philanthropy Mr P A Gerschel Dr J N Glickman 1987 Dr L M Gloss-Lessmann 1988 Professor A L Goldberg 1963 Dr B Gong 1999 Dr D C Goodrich 1980 Dr N W Gouwens 2003 Dr Y H Grad 1996 Dr T G Graham 2009 Dr K E Gray 1965 Dr D J Graziano 1979 Dr D Green 1994 Dr N R Guydosh 2001 Dr I J Haimowitz 1988 Mr R J Hall 1971 Dr J R Hampton 1995 Dr D A Hinds 1998 Dr S P Hmiel 1980 Mr R A Hutchinson 1981 Ms C Hwang Dr J M Johnson 1993 Dr R D Johnson 1988 Mr T H Jones Dr V Juneja 2009

Dr E W Kaiser 1964 Mr W B Kanders Dr E R Katz 1966 Dr J R Kennedy, Jr 1987 Dr D B Kittelson 1966 Dr J E R Kolassa 1985 Dr D K Krug 1999 Dr M Y Lanzerotti 1989 Dr W A Leaf-Hermann 1984 Dr L J Lee 1999 Mr J Lenchner 1981 Dr A D Levine 2000 Dr S R Levinson 1970 Professor D Liben-Nowell 1999 Mr J L Loeb, Jr Dr N M Loening 1997 Mary W Harriman Foundation Dr D K Matsumoto 1982 Dr J H Mattis 2006 Mr C G McNally 1976 Medronic Foundation Dr J E Mehren 1997 Dr K J Meyer 1972 Ms P Meyer Dr J C Miller 2000 Professor D A Mix Barrington 1981 Moglia Family Foundation Mr P C Monaco 1989 Dr E Q Mooring 2013 Professor K T Mueller 1985 Professor L J Mueller 1988 Dr N J Naclerio 1983 Dr M L Neidig 1999 Dr D B Neill 2001 Dr K K Niyogi 1986 Dr A B Nobel 1985 Dr M Okumura 1979 Dr J C Olson 1986 Dr A Oza 2008 Mr J E Parkey 1981 Dr P C Patrikis Mr A Pekker 2001 Dr L M Phinney 1990 Dr C K L Phoon 1985 Dr W W Phoon Dr A J Pollard 1977 Dr A A Potechin 2009 Dr J H E Promislow 1991 Dr E Rains 1991 Dr J P Reilly 1972

Dr J W Reyes (Wolpaw) 1994 Dr L E Riddle 1976 Dr E E Riehl 2006 Dr D P Riordan 2002 Dr M O Robbins 1977 Dr M K Rosen 1987 Mr A H Rosenberg 1968 Dr B M Rubenstein 2007 Dr E R Russell 2007 Mr T A Russo Saba Capital Management LP Dr J M Sabloff 1996 Dr V G Sankaran 2002 Ms J E Schaeffer 1974 Dr S J Scherr 1980 Dr M Shulman 2002 Dr H A Scott 1975 Dr J Seeliger (Chuang) 2000 Dr J S Silvia 2005 Dr E H Simmons 1985 Dr K T Siwicki (King) 1977 Professor F J Sottile 1985 Dr D R Speth 1972 Dr D B Stern 1981 Mr D J Strouse 2011 Dr D M Thomson 1994 Dr P M Todd 1985 Dr Y Tseng 2003 Dr R R Tupelo-Schneck 1997 Dr S Vadhan 1995 Mr A Vavasis Mrs T Vavasis Dr J P Wanderer 2003 Dr J P Wang 2011 Dr C Wang Erickson 2007 Dr P S Ward 2005 Dr K E Warner (Deigan) 2009 Ms N Washton Dr K A Weiskopf 2007 Dr S E Whitcomb 1973 Dr S M Wignall 1996 Professor J J West 1994 Dr D J Wright 1977 Dr D R Wright 1982 Dr S E Wunsch 1992 Mr J P Yesinowski 1971 Dr S L Zackson 1977 + six anonymous donors

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Members of the Winston S Churchill 1958 College Society We are very grateful to all the following who have chosen to support Churchill College by leaving a gift in Will. All those listed below have been formally admitted to the WSC 1958 Society at the annual gathering of members, and have given permission for their names to be listed. Dr E Allan Mrs J K Bacon 1974 Mr N Bacon 1974 † Mrs B Bielstein Dr G Bielstein Sir John Boyd Lady Boyd Mr J H Burton 1961 Mrs M Burton Mr M A Craven 1985 Dr A J Crisp Professor T W Cusick 1964 Dr N W Dean 1965 Mr M G Dixon 1964 Mrs J M Donora 1980 Mr D M M Dutton 1962 Mr G Farren 1966 Dr A-M T Farmer 1980 Dr H Farmer Mr P R A Fulton 1970 Mr N A W M Garthwaite 1970 Mr R Gregory 1979 Mrs P Green Mr S T Green 1961 Dr S K Greene 1983 Mr S Gupta 1983 Mrs G A Guthrie Mrs D Hahn † Professor F Hahn Professor A Hewish Dr D S Hoddinott 1963 Mr J Hopkins Ms V C Jolliffe 1973 † Professor A Kelly Mrs M Ker Hawn 1989

Mr R G Larkin 1967 Mr M A Lewis 1964 Mr G S Littler-Jones 1965 Mr G H Lock 1966 Mr P N Locke 1966 Dr F W Maine 1960 Mr J R Maw 1964 Mrs M Miller Dr S A Mitton 1968 Dr J H Musgrave 1965 Mr A Peaker 1964 Dr C G Page 1965 Mrs S Page Mr J G Potter 1963 Mr M A W Prior 1974 Mr G C Pyke 1963 Dr P J Reed 1961 Mr M K Rees 1974 Mr A T Richardson 1978 Mrs B Richardson Mrs B Salmon Mr R Salmon Mrs N Squire Mr D Stedman Mr V Stedman Miss R C Stott 1987 Sir John Stuttard 1963 Lady Stuttard Dr M Tippett Dr P N Trewby 1965 Sir David Wallace Lady Wallace Dr A J Walton 1960 Dr W G Welland 1970 Dr A H Wild 1968

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“She believed she could. So she did.”

… WOMEN AT CHURCHILL COLLEGE

Dame Athene in conversation with … Professor Dame Athene Donald was elected Master of Churchill College two years ago. Since then she has been working tirelessly in college and elsewhere to promote Women in Science. The series ‘Dame Athene in conversation with …’ open to the general public (and free) have been very successful and very well received. Here she is telling us why she started the Conversations and what these are. The College is proud that it was the first college to vote to admit women, yet the reality is that now our student population remains more imbalanced by gender than almost any other of the mixed colleges. As the first female Master I regret – and am puzzled by – this phenomenon. There are a variety of actions we are taking to try to address this lack of gender parity directly, including thinking hard about our Open Days and how the various documents (and websites) portray our college. But I believe there are more indirect strategies

In conversation with: Master and Carol Robinson

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we can use too, to convey that diversity is important to us at a fundamental level. The series of ‘Conversations’ I have initiated this year is part of this more subliminal messaging.

Diversity is important to us at a fundamental level

So what are these Conversations? My plan was to bring high profile academic women into the college to discuss their lives, what makes them tick and what spurred them on their way. (In future years I may stretch what I mean by academic to keep the appeal broad).When asked to explain the concept to the fellowship before we got under way I said I thought of them as Desert Island Discs without the music. But I’m no Kirsty Young (let alone Sue Lawley for those of earlier generations) and before my first event I got decidedly cold feet. Would I know how to conduct such an interview in public? My first invitee was former Fellow and now Honorary Fellow Professor Dame Carol Robinson, the eminent chemist whose career trajectory is anything but standard; after that came Professor Mary Beard and finally Professor Uta Frith (who, being German by birth counts as an honorary dame).All eminent, articulate and intriguing women. In the end I thoroughly enjoyed my interviews, each of which was unpredictable and each very different. For my preparation I listened to any interviews I could find, mainly on the BBC website – including Desert Island Discs itself on which they had all appeared. But I know all of them moderately well, which certainly helped my task and, I would hope, the dynamic between us as we chatted. Whether or not these interviews make any difference to our gender balance, I hope they have proved of interest to our audiences. All of them have been very well attended.We don’t have much information on the demographics, but we do know people are coming from the local region as well as the university and, a quick visual study of those in the Wolfson Lecture Theatre also tells me that there is a broad distribution of ages. Podcasts of the interviews have been put up on the college website for everyone to listen to at any time. Doing this I hope will also spread the word that the college is doing interesting stuff to promote inclusivity, as well as other interesting activities in general. The college has such a rich heritage, such a wonderful ambience, and I am determined to do everything I can to make sure that we are

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not ‘merely’ perceived as a place for serious students to go to read engineering. There is so much more within our walls beyond science and engineering, though that of course is a key strength. But since ‘image’ matters these days we need to be conscious of how the next generation of students – including prospective international students – perceive us. I already have next year’s slate lined up. They consist of: Jackie Ashley, former journalist and now President of Lucy Cavendish College on November 2nd 2016; Professor Alice Roberts,TV presenter and academic at Birmingham on February 16th 2017 and Dame Sally Davies, Chief Medical Officer on June 6th 2017. Come along if you can!

Athene Donald

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Women in STEM The reality of the landscape and changing perceptions Dr Lisa Jardine-Wright is Director of Studies for Churchill students in their first two years of the Natural Sciences Tripos. She is also Educational Outreach Officer for the Cavendish Laboratory. In collaboration with Professor Mark Warner she co-directs a Department for Education project to provide resources for sixth-form pupils and their teachers called isaacphysics.org. Here she explains why there are not enough women in STEM subjects and what is being done at college and university level to address this gender imbalance. As a Director of Studies in Physics I constantly reflect on why Physics is not attracting the number of UK students it once did. Moreover, from our College perspective, while we attract 70% of our students from state schools – higher than most of our fellow colleges – we under-perform in gender balance. That’s due in no small part to our founding commitment to science. Why do women NOT choose physics? 8 The reality is that young women just do not choose to do physics after the age of 16. The Institute of Physics continually monitors progression to key stage 5 (post-16 study) and in 2015 despite all the interventions that take place across

Proportion Schools P roportion of of State State Sc hools that KS4 that ssend e nd K S4 ffemale emale sstudents t u de n t s study A-level physics. on tto o st udy Alevel p hysics.

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the UK there are still 47.5% of state schools that do not send a single girl on to study A-level physics. Is it at all surprising therefore that universities struggle to recruit women to the STEM subjects? Sadly the story is even bleaker, more than 50% of state schools send fewer than 3 students on to study A-level physics with around 450 out of 3000 schools lacking a physics specialist (graduate) within their science department. How do these statistics impact on entry to University and gender diversity therein? Tripos1

Applications

Offers

Acceptances

Male (%) Female (%) Male (%) Female (%) Male (%) Female (%) Natural Sciences (NST)

59.5

40.5

59.0

41.0

60.1

39.9

Mathematics

75.8

24.2

75.9

24.1

85.4

14.6

Computer Science

87.4

12.6

82.9

17.1

82.4

17.6

Veterinary Medicine

17.1

82.9

19.2

80.8

17.2

82.8

Due to natural sciences encompassing physics some issues are hidden in the data presented above. Typically ~20% of our first year physics cohort (~460 students in total) is female with ~71% of natural science students choosing physics as one of their options. However the various issues affecting our gender distribution at university level can be seen in the summary of this data below: 1. Many more male students apply to NST, Maths and Computer Science. 2. Offers are made broadly in alignment to the application distribution. 3. In mathematics we see that many more girls fail to meet their offer (which necessarily includes STEP for maths) than boys.

1 Data from www.undergraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/sites/www.undergraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/files/publications/ undergrad_admissions_statistics_2015_cyle.pdf. Veterinary medicine is included as a counter example indicating that it isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t that women are discouraged from applying to Cambridge but that certain subjects are not attracting applications from female students.

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As a college, Churchill experiences all of these issues and in some cases they are exacerbated with all three subjects (Physics, Maths and Computer Science) receiving low number of female applications, despite our commendable 70% state school cohorts.Where do we go from here and how are Churchill College and the University helping to address these issues? Women in STEM initiatives At college level In collaboration with Isaac Physics, Churchill has been piloting workshops and residentials to measure the impact such interventions can have, so that initiatives may be rolled out across other subjects. For example, as part of a portfolio of widening participation programmes Churchill has just piloted a ‘Women in STEM’ residential for year 12 girls. Following the science open day on the 4th April, year-12 girls studying Physics and Maths in schools from the College’s area links were invited to stay in College overnight and participate in a Physics workshop. The girls were academically able and Academically able keen to participate – but under-confident. but under-confident They began working with some of our undergraduates in groups to explain a variety of Physics “toys”, such as Newton’s Cradle, gyroscopes, spinning tops etc. – open-ended, real-life puzzles that take confidence to tackle. As I watched our Churchill students I observed what excellent ambassadors they were. After staying in College overnight, the girls made their way to the world-famous Cavendish to join in sessions modelled on the lecture and supervision system. I observed how they became unhesitant in their approach, willing to just have a go, those initial hints of under-confidence left behind as they began to understand that it’s okay to get things wrong. Prompted by the discussions led by our Master, we asked the year 12 students to volunteer anonymous responses to the following questions: What was most unexpected about the residential? What was most useful? Why / why wouldn’t you choose Churchill College or Cambridge? Their responses provided clear

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evidence for our hypothesis that staying in college really makes a difference.We intend this residential to be the first of many. At University level With Prof. Mark Warner and as Educational Outreach Officer for the Cavendish Laboratory, I co-direct a Department for Education project called isaacphysics.org which aims to widen pupil participation by helping them, in particular those pupils

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who do not have a specialist Physics teacher at school, to develop the skills, confidence and enjoyment in problem-solving that will enable them to study STEM subjects at university. We are delighted to now say that Since September 2015 nearly 25,000 users of isaacphysics.org from more than 1,500 schools have answered more than 3 million questions – that’s about 200,000 questions every month. To enable pupils to gain confidence and develop their problem solving skills our questions are scaffolded by hints in an environment where there is no penalty for getting a question wrong, and resilience and hard work are rewarded. Our motto is that, with the right attitude, you can learn more from making mistakes than you do from always getting things right. To Conclude So Churchill College in collaboration with We need to find Isaac Physics has started to address this solutions to redress important question of how to attract more the gender imbalance women in STEM subjects in order to find solutions to redress the gender imbalance. The residentials in college proved a success to help women gain confidence in their ability and showed that within a suitable environment women can successfully and rewardingly engage in STEM. We’ve started the ball rolling; but while single interventions enthuse and provide insight they do not have the impact of longer-term interaction.We now need to continue our efforts to ensure that more students (and the school sector) regularly interact and make use of such free resources and opportunities – practice makes perfect – so that many more women build their confidence and continue with STEM subjects.

Lisa Jardine-Wright

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Laura Bateman A Day in the life of a medical student athlete Tom Owens is Junior Research Fellow in English Literature. He trained with Laura for over a year prior to the Women’s Rugby Varsity match that was played at Twickenham last December for the first time and which Cambridge won spectacularly. Here he describes her demanding schedule as both an athlete and a medical student. In December 2015 Laura Bateman, a sixth-year medical student at Churchill College, represented Cambridge in the 29th annual Rugby Union Varsity Match. It was a landmark occasion, marking the first time that the women played at Twickenham. Cambridge stormed to an historic 52-0 victory in a scintillating display of expansive, attacking rugby which was a delight to watch. The life of a student-athlete is not easy. Laura’s medical schedule ensured that she had to be at Addenbrooke’s Hospital most mornings by 7:30am to conduct ward rounds. A typical day would include a combination of the following: attend outpatient clinics with consultants; assist in theatre; change catheters and cannulas; follow a team to see urgently ill patients; teach on placement (anything from dermatology to radiotherapy to communication skills); study for exams; and clerk cases in A&E. I began weight and core training with Laura Laura's tenacity, about eighteen months prior to the game, consistency and four to five days per week, two hours per ability were inspiring day, from 5:30pm. These sessions were typically gruelling (for me, at least). Her tenacity, consistency and ability were infectious and inspiring in equal measure: shortly before the Varsity Match she lifted 90kg in the bench press; 110kg in the squat; and 145kg in the deadlift. Unsurprisingly, she won a powerlifting competition en route to Varsity. At its peak, squad training involved sprints and circuits once a week; weights twice a week; a match mid-week; and three rugby specific sessions which

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incorporated tackle, scrum and line-out practice; ball-handling skills; and ruck and maul drills (especially important for Laura as a backrow forward). Balancing the physical requirements of university level rugby with the full-time, full-on work of becoming a medical doctor is exceptionally difficult and demanding. Laura thrived on the challenge, which is testament both to her indomitable spirit and great success. She made those around her want to achieve more and did so with characteristic grace and encouragement. Long may that motivation and attitude continue! Not yet tempted to hang her socks up, and having beaten Oxford again in the Tigersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 2nd XV Varsity Match in March this year, she is now running five times a week in preparation for a marathon on 2nd May, 2016.

Tom Owens

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'It is no use saying. “We are doing our best.” You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.’ Winston Churchill

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Founder and Foundation Allen Packwood is the Director of the Archives Centre and Barry Phipps is the Curator of Works of Art at Churchill.They are both Fellows of the College.They joined forces in re-designing the Wolfson Foyer by making it a permanent exhibition to tell the story of our founder and foundation. There is a new place in college. The Wolfson Foyer space has undergone a transformation. Where once there was a conference office there is now a small cinema area; where once there was a bar you can now sit at a replica of Sir Winston Churchill’s desk, complete with Prime Ministerial engagement card, a map of the D-day objectives, and a small bust of Napoleon. This article seeks to explain why. It is now over half a century since the death of It is now over half the College’s founder and fifty-six years since the a century since granting of the Charter and the arrival of the first the death of the graduate students. In a recent addition of the College’s founder College newsletter I reflected on the death of Honorary Fellow, Lady Soames. Her passing marked the severing of a living link with Sir Winston. Sadly we have now reached a point where the wartime generation is passing from the stage.We can no longer assume that students born in the late 1990’s, when Tony Blair was Prime Minister, will have detailed knowledge of the life of Churchill or the unique nature of the foundation of this College. This new permanent exhibition is an attempt to remedy this gap in a colourful, interactive and hopefully engaging manner. The display highlights some of the documents and photographs in the Churchill Archives Centre to tell the story of our founder and foundation. Moreover, it acts as a bridge between the Archives and visitors to the college; students and their families, Møller Centre clients and the general public.

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It draws upon political documents and photographs kept by Churchill to convey the length and scope of his career. A montage of political cartoons makes that point that he was active and controversial long before becoming Prime Minister, allowing us to cover his entry to parliament, his early political triumphs and his opposition to fascism along side his refusal to support the suffragettes or greater independence for India. His speaking notes for two of his famous wartime speeches, set out in the blank verse format that he used to aid delivery, are juxtaposed with the recordings of him delivering the same passages. Having introduced Churchill, the man, the Promoting science exhibition then sets out to explain the link and technology through wartime science, and his interest in promoting science and technology, to the foundation of Churchill College and the early years of the institution. Here we were able to draw on some rare film footage: of Churchill planting the trees and speaking here at the College site on 17 October 1959, before anything had been built; of the building and early life of the College, produced by early Fellow Andrew Sinclair and some of the students, and set to a marvelous contemporary jazz soundtrack; of Churchillâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s funeral procession, shot from a window in Fleet Street; and news coverage of the opening of College by HRH Prince Philip. Material from the College archives then takes the story on through the building of the chapel, the removal of the first Hepworth sculpture, the admission of women, and the creation of the Archives Centre and the MĂ¸ller Centre. The raw material may have come from the archives, but the design, development and installation of this exhibition was a real team effort. Barry Phipps, our Curator

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of Works of Art, had the challenge of bringing the materials to life and reconfiguring the space in the Wolfson Foyer, where the exhibition will be on permanent display. He worked closely with Maintenance Team,AV technician and with Housekeeping to effect the transformation. The exhibition could not have happened without the generosity of alumnus, Dr Anthony Wild, and without the support of Honorary Fellow and great grandson of our founder, Mr Randolph Churchill.

Allen Packwood and Barry Phipps

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Our ‘Millennial Master’ John Boyd at 80 Professor Mark Goldie gives a vivid description of Sir John Boyd’s term as Churchill College fifth Master, reminding us of his unusual appointment and going on to celebrate John’s life – as testified by Lord Patten, and Sir John Tusa – and his achievements as an ambassador par excellence for the college – as highlighted by Lord Alec Broers and Allen Packwood. In January the College celebrated the eightieth birthday of its fifth Master, Sir John Boyd, who might be called our ‘Millennial Master’, having been in office during the years either side of 2000. He is unique among our seven Masters both in having a humanities rather than a science or technology background and in coming to us from outside academe.There is another uniqueness: he was among the candidates proposed to us by Number Ten. This point may need explaining. The headship of Churchill is a Crown appointment, on the advice of the Prime Minister. For many years, that involved the Prime Minister’s ‘Secretary for Appointments’ suggesting names to be considered alongside those proposed by the Fellowship. In this instance, the Fellowship found the case persuasive. (The Secretary for Appointments liked to say that universities were a doddle – consensual and courteous – compared with the Church of England, for filling bishoprics was the bane of his life.) Such a thing, however, will never happen again, because Prime Minister Gordon Brown abolished the Secretary for Appointments and resolved to leave such matters in the hands of the institution concerned. John’s many talents And so it was that ‘our man in Tokyo’ got a call inviting him to be Master. A graduate in Modern Languages from Clare College (where he is an Honorary Fellow), John Boyd entered the diplomatic service, served in Hong Kong, Washington, New York, Bonn, and in the Foreign Office in Whitehall, rising to be ambassador to Japan. (Another specialness: John is a member of the Order of the Rising Sun.) A superb linguist, among the many skills he brought to Churchill was his familiarity with Mandarin and Japanese. He worked with our Fellow in Far Eastern Studies, Boping Yuan, to develop academic links in that part of the world. John has Latin too, so can parse the quotation from Virgil on the plaque at the Porters’ Lodge: Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas:‘Fortunate are they

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who understand the causes of things’. John is a man of catholic talents – a violinist, for example, who brought Yehudi Menuhin to talk at Churchill, shortly before his death. And of invincible curiosities – I have examined box pews in seventeenthcentury rural churches with him. An Ambassador for the College There are different ways of being a Master. John did what his talents leaned him towards. He was par excellence an ambassador for the College. John made the College much better known in the corridors of the British Establishment. He is immensely well connected in the several interlinked circles of public life. He knows politicians, civil servants, journalists, heads of cultural institutions. Many of them found themselves at lunch in the Master’s Lodge – under the portrait of the great statesman Edmund Burke, bequeathed to the College by Sir Winston’s faithful ally

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Brendan Bracken. Not least were Margaret and Dennis Thatcher, and in 1997 the former Prime Minister decided to place her archive at Churchill. John also travelled the globe for Churchill, his professional training never deserting him, for the files, upon return, were filled with such items as ‘Singapore: Foreign Minister: Lunch: Memorandum’. Sometimes his catches were wonderfully fortuitous, such as a Venice in Peril grant to fund a postdoctoral fellow. Building Developments under John’s Mastership During Sir John’s Mastership the College expanded its physical footprint, a measure of our doing more with our resources and for wider educational purposes. The Archives Centre built its Extension, opened in 2002 by Baroness Thatcher. A miniature campus comprising three postgraduate houses, Bondi, Broers, and Hawthorne Houses, was opened in 2003.The College Library built a new gallery. Plans were laid for the Music Rooms and the Moller Centre’s second Study Centre, opened in 2007. The demographic of our alumni entered a new phase when, for the first time, an alumnus, Njabulo Ndebele, was awarded an honorary degree by the University. And the student estate continued its onward march, student representatives being admitted to Governing Body. Go with the Flow In the chair at Governing Body, John insisted on John insisted consensus.This gives me false memory syndrome, on consensus for I was surprised, in looking back at the minutes, to find such utterances, from the floor, as ‘categorically denied’, ‘matter of fundamental principle’, and ‘deplored’. But the spirit of John’s chairmanship is best captured by a minute which reads ‘The Master took good note of these strictures’. We commission portraits of our Masters. They adorn the stairway from the Fellows’ Gallery to the Dining Hall. Sir John’s is by Tom Phillips, RA. One of its mysteries (to most of us) is the inscription in Mandarin, which is so Delphic that there are at least fifteen possible translations. One version is, ‘Govern, avoiding unnecessary intervention’. A more laid back version is, ‘Go with the flow’. Lady Julia Another feature of the portrait, wholly unmysterious, is the presence of Julia, Lady Boyd. Julia brought her immense vivacity and energy to Churchill, and turned her

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hand in quite contrasting directions. On the one hand, a doyenne of the Boat Club – a boat was duly named ‘Lady Julia’. On the other, a burgeoning career as an historian and author. She published a biography of Britain’s first qualified doctor Elizabeth Blackwell, and went on to a book on the history of the expat communities in Beijing.These, according to one reviewer, Piers Brendon, combine ‘vivid evocations’ with an ‘astonishing ability to dig out archival treasure troves’. Not everyone knows John and Julia’s secret A constant place hideaway. They are farmers in the Lake District, to call home in a long and remote valley where the tourists don’t go, and where the bleating of sheep is incessant.Think Mrs Humphry Ward’s novel Robert Ellesmere, or Postman Pat.As peripatetic diplomats, the Boyds wisely decided that their children needed one constant place to call home. There’s no money in sheep, but the place is idyllic. I recollect being given a severe tutorial in philosophy by the then Sixth Form daughter, Jessica – it was no surprise that she went on to a PhD in philosophy. Civility, Amicability, and Charm John and Julia brought to Churchill their civility, amicability, and charm. That their life is lived on a much wider stage is exemplified by those who came to the dinner to speak about John: the Rt Hon. Lord Patten, Chancellor of Oxford University, and the last British Governor of Hong Kong; Sir John Tusa, former head of the BBC World Service; Lord Alec Broers, John’s predecessor as Master who went on to be Vice-Chancellor at Cambridge; and Allen Packwood, Director of the Archives Centre. Sadly, we have no text from Chris Patten, who spoke not only of John’s career, but emphatically about the continuing necessity for, and qualities of, the British diplomatic service. Sir John Tusa’s tableaux of John John Tusa offered several tableaux of John, ‘freeze frames, vignettes’ – for their paths have crossed in different milieux. In one instance, a tricky negotiation over funding, the World Service trying to keep its end up in Whitehall, John promising that ambassadorial curtains would not take precedence. Another, in Tokyo, concerning one of those David Hockney pictures made from stitching together connected images using a Polaroid camera, yet capturing ambassadorial conviviality. The third has the two men together on the Board of Trustees at the British

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Museum. ‘We were at an opening for a show of Japanese swords, at once refined, beautiful, and cruel. John gave a highly learned account of the process, the craft, the skill, the perfection involved in tempering the steel to the quality required. He had not wasted his time in Tokyo.’ And a general, really multiple tableaux, of many Boyd stories about colleagues which would begin, ‘I love him to bits’, as a prelude to some ‘sharp, pointed tale’. In sum, John Tusa acclaimed John as ‘civil servant, diplomat, scholar, chairman, raconteur, musician, friend’. Lord Broers’ testimony Alec Broers spoke with gratitude about John’s willingness to join the University Council and providing there an independent perspective on the inner workings of an academic institution, a reassuring ‘haven of good sense’. Alec too had become a trustee of the British Museum, and he underscored how dire the Museum’s position had become until John and new leaders were in place, culminating in the ‘brilliance’ of choosing Neil MacGregor as Director. Alec, as a resolute (and, to most of us, frighteningly intrepid) sailor, felt he must put a Boyd through paces on the water. Julia sailed with him from Hayling Island out across the Chichester Bar and back. She took the helm, with never a sign of losing control of the boat. Lastly, Alec pointed to John’s musicianship, extracting ‘quite reasonable renditions of all sorts of music in his house in London from what can only be described as a chaos of twenty or thirty singers’. Some will remember – well, it was unforgettable – the choral performance by The Three Masters at Churchill, John, Alec, and David Wallace.

Mark Goldie, with grateful thanks to Chris Patten, John Tusa, Alec Broers, and Allen Packwood

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As is customary Prof Archie Howie read out the poem he has specially composed for Sir John’s birthday’s celebration. Master of Diplomacy Diplomacy is like theology Formal instruction we cannot provide And see no need for an apology Let life-experience these skills confide! So all these physicists and engineers We ask to glorify our Master’s Lodge To deal with every crisis that appears May use diplomacy but have to bodge! But with John Boyd we boldly broke that mould Pushed up our Masters’ arts-science ratio Diplomacy for him sprang not from cold But learnt from being our man in Tokyo! So he could ease in Thatcher’s archive scheme The Fellowship being strongly polarised No ripple on the academic scene Our outside image kept uncompromised. At College feasts droves of Ambassadors Exchanged high thoughts with alcohol enhanced; But still unmatched in holding memory’s doors The boat club table on which Julia danced! Fresh challenges for learning on the job Arise from savage strokes that fate can deal; Enjoying life with what time failed to rob, Our diplomat became a man of steel! Archie Howie

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The day I brought a Sex Blogger into College… Moving Mountains 2016 Shelley Surtees is Churchill’s Domestic Bursar and a Fellow. She personally knows the benefits of exercise on mental health conditions and has been wonderful at supporting those of our students who from time to time suffer from depression. Here she relates how The Moving Mountains Conferences (advocating exercise for mental and physical chronic patients) came about and what they have achieved so far, including a rather unusual contribution from one of the speakers.

The Moving Mountains project is now in its A clear correlation second year, and gaining momentum.The project between moderate is the result of a vague conversation between exercise and a Churchill Fellow, Anny King, and me one sunny healthy mind day in the Buttery. Anny’s son, a cystic fibrosis and body patient, had just learnt that he no longer needed a lung transplant following an increase in his physical exercise programme. I was supporting a student with significant mental health issues, who was using exercise as a form of therapy. We were both fairly astounded by each other’s stories and realised that although it is a case of stating the obvious; there was a clear correlation between moderate exercise and a healthy mind and body, but that most people didn’t seem to realise this and thus there was an opportunity to spread this message wide and far.

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Whilst we have excellent emotional support provision at Churchill, our students do put themselves under tremendous pressure and it was apparent to me that many lacked the emotional resilience which is necessary to achieve their high expectations. Furthermore it seemed that few were making use of the excellent sports facilities around the site, despite these being free and very accessible. Our first conference was held in February 2015 and brought together three personal stories of individuals who were using exercise as a form of therapy to manage chronic medical conditions. These stories were backed up by a host of medical experts’ contributions. The conference was an overwhelming success, and was followed by a conference dinner where we were honoured by the presence of Professor Stephen Hawking who made a moving after dinner speech focused on the need for determination and resilience. On the same day as Moving Mountains 2015 The Royal College of Physician’s published a report called ‘Exercise; the Miracle Cure’. For Anny and me this was momentous as it completely supported our hypothesis that exercise should be considered, as an alternative, or alongside medication in many long-term chronic mental and physical health situations. Our second event was held in March of 2016, and focused on Motivation. Again we brought individuals together with medics, representatives from the charitable sector and journalists. Attendees ranged from our own student to academics at other institutions, medical professionals, personal trainers and those with a personal interest. Our keynote speaker was Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson who spoke at length about physical and mental literacy within our education system. Other prestigious speakers included Ed Owen, CEO of the Cystic Fibrosis Trust, Paul Farmer, CEO of Mind and the sex blogger, Zoe Margolis, who spoke about her own battle with depression and her use of running as a self management tool. At an after conference dinner we were entertained with a witty and moving speech by Churchill alumnus David Atyiah, a prominent mental health activist.

Shelley Surtees

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Boksenberg 3205 Alec Boksenberg at 80 Professor Robert Kennicutt, Fellow of Churchill College, gives us an account of the many achievements that Professor Alec Boksenberg has had in his stellar career and reveals that ‘Boksy’ is still as hungry intellectually now at 80 as he was when he started. All photos courtesy of Dr Anna Zytkow. The Fellowship gathered on 19 March 2016 for a dinner and formal dessert in celebration of the 80th birthday of Professor Alexander (Alec) Boksenberg CBE FRS. Fellows were joined by guests including Alec’s wife Adella and other members of his family, the Astronomer Royal Lord Rees of Ludlow, Dr Robin Catchpole (Institute of Astronomy), Professor David Valls-Gabaud (French Fellow), Julia Weston (Chief Executive of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust), Adam Perkins (Curator of Scientific Manuscripts at the University Library), Mr Stephen Large (Consultant Surgeon at Papworth Hospital), and childhood friend Alan Spry and his wife. Several of the attendees spoke and in their remarks described Alec’s distinguished career in astronomy, instrumentation, science leadership roles and avenues beyond, along with personal recollections and storytelling about Alec’s many adventures within and outside his professional life. Dr Robin Catchpole, a long-time colleague of Alec at the Royal Greenwich Observatory and the Institute of Astronomy, gave a fine overview of his many accomplishments and landmark achievements in astronomy, and Lord Rees, a close associate also over many decades, strongly highlighted his wide impact in the field. Several other speakers covered his manifold additional roles and activities. Alec at University College London After graduating with undergraduate and doctoral degrees in physics Alec remained at UCL and began developing a series of instruments which would revolutionise our abilities to measure the physical properties of very distant and very faint astronomical sources. These included instruments for ultraviolet observations which needed to be carried out from above the Earth’s UV-absorbing atmosphere, first from rockets

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and balloons then extending to the orbiting ultraviolet spectrometer instruments on the Europe satellite TD-1A, followed by the USA-UK-Europe International Ultraviolet Explorer Satellite (IUE) for which he developed the first ultraviolet television storage camera for space astronomy that made this project possible, and culminating in the even more revolutionary Image Photon Counting System (IPCS) embodied in the Faint Object Camera, among the first set of instruments on the USA-Europe Hubble Space Telescope (HST). On the latter three Alec had worked in association with the Space Agencies in Europe and the USA. Alec first had developed the IPCS as a fundamentally new approach to the detection of extremely faint optical images and spectra for use on ground-based telescopes, becoming universally heralded as the transition of astronomy from the era of photographic emulsions to digital detectors.

Speakers in order of delivery from top left: Prof David Newbery; Prof Archie Howie; Dr Robin Catchpole, Institute of Astronomy; Prof David Valls-Gabaud; Ms Julia Weston, Chief Executive, Winston Churchill Memorial Trust; Mr Adam Perkins, Curator of Scientific Manuscripts, Cambridge University Library; Mr Alan Spry, Friend since primary school; Astronomer Royal The Lord Rees of Ludlow; Prof Christopher Tout; Mrs Anny King; Prof Dame Athene Donald; Prof Alec Boksenberg

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Alec’s ‘System’ As the basis of the IPCS he coupled a commercially available image intensifier tube of enormous light-amplification (about a hundred million times) to a high quality television camera tube used in broadcast television but with special driver electronics which he designed, and together these were easily capable of detecting individual photons of light, seen as bright splashes on a monitor screen. But he went much further than this by electronically measuring their precise central positions with the help of very clever pattern-recognition hardware and software (this enabled the information to be obtained at much higher spatial resolution than capable by the intensifier and camera tube themselves) then storing the results in an associated computer memory, all working in real time. The astronomer while at the telescope could then watch the information building up with time photon by photon as a digital picture and make scientific decisions to optimise the recorded results while the exposure progressed. Particularly for faint objects requiring very long exposure times often taking several nights to complete the IPCS was upwards of a hundred times more sensitive than photographic cameras. Alec and his team at UCL transported the instrument around the world to be used on the largest ground-based telescopes of the time, including the 200-inch “Big Eye” Telescope on Mount Palomar. Those visits to Palomar nurtured a lifelong collaboration with Professor Wal Sargent at Caltech, and there the team made some of the most important astronomical discoveries of the latter half of the 20th century, including a series of papers on the nature of the intergalactic gas clouds that occupy the space between galaxies (detected through the spectral absorption features of clouds superimposed in the evolving space-time seen along the sightlines to distant quasars placed early in the life of the Universe), and the first strong evidence for the presence of a supermassive black hole in the centre of a galaxy (M87). Those of us who observed at Palomar at the time marvelled at the roadshow which would descend upon the mountaintop during every IPCS run, as Alec, with an array of shipping crates and his team of technicians and students responsible for transporting, installing, and maintaining the instrument in good working order during the precious Big Eye observing time, joined his Caltech collaborators. Given the era and the British composition of the team (and owing in no small part to their rambunctious manners) the group soon became

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known as “Boksenberg’s Flying Circus”, and eventually special T-shirts were made for the team. Wide Impact of Alec’s Technology Already mentioned is Alec’s landmark achievements in space astronomy through his invention and application of revolutionary instruments placed aboard major satellite observatories scientifically accessible for use by astronomers in institutes over the world. These instruments collectively produced an enormous array of scientific discoveries published in the various astronomical journals and accessible to the whole population of astronomers. He and his team at UCL also built the common-user versions of the IPCS that were installed on the 4-metre Anglo-Australian Telescope at the Siding Spring Observatory, the large telescope at the South African Astronomical Observatory

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in Sutherland, and the 4.2-metre William Herschel Telescope at the Royal Greenwich Observatoryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes in the Canary Islands (see more of the story below).The IPCS remained the detector of choice at virtually every major observatory worldwide from 1973 until the early 1990s, when they were replaced by initial versions of todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ubiquitous CCD imagers which reside in everything from astronomical instruments to personal cameras and smartphones. By that time the IPCS instruments had led to more than 2000 papers, many of which transformed their respective subjects. Alec as Director of the Royal Observatories With such success and fame, other opportunities came knocking in parallel. In 1981 Alec was made Director of the Royal Greenwich Observatory (RGO), residing in Herstmonceux Castle in East Sussex, with the special brief of constructing the Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes, containing four telescopes, including the 4.2-metre William Herschel Telescope which, while at UCL, he had rescued from extinction due to its high cost by demonstrating to the funding Research Council how it could be built for half the quoted price and be twice as effective. His role subsequently expanded to overseeing, on behalf of the UK, the construction of the two International Gemini 8-metre telescopes in Hawaii and Chile and additionally gaining the Directorship also of the Royal Observatory Edinburgh with its telescopes in Hawaii, in the combined role Director of the Royal Observatories. This proved to be a tumultuous period for the RGO, with the construction of new world-class observatories and unprecedented scientific successes (enabled in large part by the IPCS instruments) taking place hand in hand with existential political debates about the future of that Observatory. In 1990 Alec moved the RGO from Herstmonceux Castle to Cambridge, where it occupied a new

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building adjacent to the Institute of Astronomy and the College. Adam Perkins, who moved with the RGO and is now Curator of Scientific Manuscripts in the Cambridge University Library, spoke of the RGO’s valuable historical library and papers (including Alec’s papers) now housed there. Alec retired from the Directorship of the Royal Observatories in 1996 at the required age of 60, and that is when his direct association with us in Churchill College began, as Extraordinary Fellow. Also in 1996 he was appointed Honorary Professor of Experimental Astronomy in the University and to a senior research position at the Institute of Astronomy. Despite Alec’s tireless efforts to save the RGO, its home base eventually was closed in 1998 (now used by branches of the University administration) but leaving the Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes in the Canary Islands intact. Retirement ‘à la Alec’ Most people who are told that Alec retired more than 20 years ago react with disbelief, in part because Alec hardly looks his age (a point made by several of the speakers) and because his activities have hardly let up over that period. Being unburdened from directorial duties freed Alec to take up broader challenges and activities, while continuing his astronomical research with Wal Sargent and others. Most notably these are his longstanding service as Chair of the UK National Commission for the United Nations Education, Sciences and Culture Organisation (UNESCO) and his leading roles in the UNESCO Regional Bureau for Science in Europe, in the World Heritage Centre, and in reformative action on UNESCO’s programme that he conducted in its Paris Headquarters in partnership with the UK Ambassador to UNESCO. These were addressed by speaker Professor David Valls-Gabaud. As usual Alec refused to treat these appointments as caretaker roles, and he used his influence to generate and lead a fundamental review of UNESCO’s global work in the Sciences and in effect to shake up the offices and sharpen their focus and impact. His plan was approved by all 195 Member countries of UNESCO. He is especially proud of the work he has done to bring astronomy to young children in developing countries (Universe Awareness) and the L’Oreal-UNESCO For Women in Science Fellowships (which includes our Master amongst the bodies’ global top honourees).

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As but an illustration of the breadth of his other activities Alec serves as President of three astronomical societies, was Executive Editor of the journal Experimental Astronomy, is a member of the Council of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust and Chair of its Sciences section (highlighted by speaker Julia Weston), is on the Board of Trustees of The Future University in Khartoum, was Master and now active Past Master of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers in the City of London (where it is rumoured that as Freeman and Liveryman he has the right to drive his sheep across London Bridge any day he likes, free) and was additionally President of the British Horological Institute. These are but the tip of an iceberg of more than 70 activities at the national and international levels. Along the way he collected a raft of honours including election to Fellow of the Royal Society, a CBE, awards including the Royal Society Hughes Medal, the Institute of Physics Glazebrook Medal and Prize, the Royal Astronomical Society Jackson Gwilt Medal and Gift, the Golden Diploma of the Bulgarian National Convent of Experts, two honorary degrees and an asteroid in his name (Boksenberg 3205).

The Hungry Astronomer Speakers at the celebration also found plenty of time for stories about Alec’s more amusing personal adventures and quirks. His childhood friend Alan Spry spoke of experiments with explosive chemicals and Dr Robin Catchpole related being summoned to Alec’s hospital room on the days before and after his quadruple bypass heart surgery to work on a joint paper. Complimentary personal reminiscences of Alec also were given by Professor Christopher Tout and Anny King. As has become customary at these occasions Professor Archie Howie wrote and read a poem, entitled ‘The Hungry Astronomer’, a reference not only to Alec’s

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voracious intellectual drive and curiosity but also to his prodigious appetite during lunches in College. And Finallyâ&#x20AC;Ś The evening concluded with remarks by Alec himself, introduced by the Master. In characteristic style he deflected attention to others, thanking the College and its members for making him and Adella feel so welcome over the years, and, in special thanks to Adella herself for her support and companionship over 56 years of marriage, also declared his utter awe about her performances as a pianist. He also expressed special thanks to the cardiologist Dr Leonard Shapiro and surgeon Mr Stephen Large at Papworth Hospital who saved his life 22 years ago and looked after him afterwards. All in the above are but the highlights of a thoroughly enjoyable evening for all who attended.

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As is customary Prof Archie Howie read out the poem he has specially composed for Prof Alec Boksenberg’s birthday’s celebration The Hungry Astronomer Star gazers feel great hunger for more light But bringing photon counting to the game Is recognised as Boksenberg’s insight; Astronomy was never quite the same! This work was held in such a high regard The Royal Observatory to direct From moated Sussex castle his reward; Next took a site in Cambridge more abject! He orbits late through Churchill every day Like some strange planet that six moons surround. May lunch the hunger of his brain allay From six small plates with all their spoons around! Speeches to Chinese bankers he can make Explaining how those furthest off seem young Since light needs time the longer trip to take; Raced from the sun before his song is sung! Think forty light years off a planet bright Reflects our light with high efficiency: Alec’s detectors could now see this light Disclosing Boksy in his infancy! Archie Howie

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The Entrepreneurs of the Future Churchill College Enterprise Competition Annabel Busher, Development Officer, gives us here an overview of Churchill College Enterprise Competition which aims to broaden business awareness amongst Churchill students and alumni and provide entrepreneurial Churchillians with the opportunity to test their ideas and fast-track their learning in a safe and supportive environment. Capturing the spirit of Churchill’s intent to produce the leaders of the future, the Churchill College Enterprise competition (now in its second successful year) seeks to identify the best business ideas of current Churchill students and alumni. Open to teams or individuals; the competition awards the winning entry £1000 including experienced business mentoring from the panel of judges (drawn from Churchill alumni) that could be valued in multiple thousands if accessed on the open market. The value of the Competition The panel of judges are eminently qualified and successful in diverse sectors such as investment, management, research and manufacturing. Churchill alumnus and Chairman of Cornwall Energy, Simon Jones (U85) is the Chair of Churchill College Enterprise Competition. He is clear about the benefits of strengthening professional links between students and alumni. “The aim of the competition is to create Create an environment an environment where Churchill students where Churchill and alumni can gain knowledge and skills students can gain in whatever future direction their careers knowledge and skills take: corporate, banking, consulting or entrepreneurship”, Simon explains. His own experience on the entrepreneurial management course at Wharton Business School which exposed students to successful alumni entrepreneurs was transformative. “Corporate financiers and other advisors opened our minds to what is possible”. Simon’s experience led him to assemble the panel of alumni entrepreneurs in 2014 to create a similar opportunity for current students and alumni at Churchill. Another panel alumnus, Richard Brockbank (U96) identifies the need to equip Churchill graduates with entrepreneurial skills to enable the transition of their

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ideas to businesses that will have a real and lasting impact on the world.“Churchill is a strong College academically, but to make an impact in today’s world I believe that’s not enough and the College must also strive to produce graduates with the entrepreneurial ability to take their ideas forward and turn them into winning businesses.” Panel member Valerie Jolliffe (U73) also hopes to raise the status of Churchill as a source of innovation in the eyes of Cambridge. This impact has already started to take shape for the winners of last year’s competition, Urologic. “We had exceptional guidance and support from our mentors”, explains Igor Romanov from the Urologic team, who are now at the stage of finalising the patent assignment for their invention; a novel urinary catheter design that dramatically improves bladder drainage efficiency leading to the reduction of infection, and they are now looking to apply for public NHS funding in January 2017 to fund a proof-of concept development. The 2016 Competition Winners The 2016 competition finals took place at Churchill College in late April and the value and importance of the competition shone through when I met with the seven teams following their presentations. I asked about their motivation for entering, what they hoped to gain from the mentors and what advice they might have for others thinking about entering next year. At the heart of almost every answer was the central importance of the bank of experienced Churchill alumni whose impact had already been felt by every single team. Here are just a few highlights from the conversations I had that day. Q: What was your motivation to enter the competition? A: It was the access to the very experienced mentors that organise the competition and are Churchill alumni. The attraction of the money prize was also a draw because we’re trying to develop a website at the moment. A: It is a wonderful opportunity to showcase our idea and to engage, network and learn from experts in the field.

A wonderful opportunity to showcase our idea

A: We wanted to have our business idea challenged and tested. They say that 9 out of 10 business start-ups fail and if we don’t even try there is 100% chance that we will fail.This competition was a great way of trying it.

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David Holden-White and Graham Mills, winners of this year’s competition Q: What are you hoping to achieve? A: I’d like to gain a deeper understanding on the process of developing an idea into a real start-up and also get some feedback. A: I’d like to get my project to a stage when I can test it live with some real businesses and real users online – I’d be happy if I could get it to that stage because it would validate that I’ve been working on something worthwhile and that the idea’s interesting. Q: What kind of help are you looking for from the alumni mentors? A: Having alumni mentors has been extremely helpful simply because they have something we don’t have which is loads and loads of experience so they can see problems in our business ideas that we never thought of before. You want to exploit the advantage, show them your idea, take their criticism constructively and improve from that. A:We’re hoping to use the experience that the mentors have had in the business environment to take our product into the market so we can grow rapidly and commercialise our technology. Q: What advice would you give to others considering entering the competition next year? A: If you have an idea, you should try to test it and show it to other people. It’s always good when you receive feedback about your ideas so you have a chance to improve it – you never know what’s going to come out of it.

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A: The best advice from me is just try it! It’s an amazing experience!

Just try it!

This year’s winners were ‘Biotechspert’ led by Churchill alumnus David HoldenWhite (G14) and Graham Mills. “We entered the competition last year with a different idea, but we were unsuccessful,” recalls David, “however, through the excellent mentorship and constructive criticism that we received, we re-evaluated our idea and ultimately switched our focus to ‘Biotechspert.com’, putting together a more fully developed business plan based on advice from the Churchill mentors.” Biotechspert’s idea – an online platform facilitating freelance consultancy within the biotech industry – was the panel’s favourite due in part to its Founders’ persistence, but they could also see the business as ready to go now with an eminently realistic and achievable strategy. There was also particular praise for the two runners up who are well positioned to be successful businesses, addressing huge potential market opportunities – HALO with their wearable solar charging devices and Favalley with their mission to educate under privileged people in emerging markets. The Biotechspert team will be using their prize money to pay for the completion of their website which will in turn allow them to start pre-launch marketing and expert recruitment for their online platform within weeks. “We hope to launch the final version of the site in August this year and from there expand into other markets to provide online knowledge-exchange platforms in the engineering and legal services industries as well as the biotechnology industry.” So, what next for the Churchill Enterprise Competition? Members of the panel certainly hope that with the support available through the Churchill Enterprise Competition the growing pool of participants will help generate entrepreneurship within the College and pave the way for further success.

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Birthday of a founding Fellow Ken Livesley at 90 Founding Fellow Ken Livesley reached his 90th birthday on 30th May 2016 and the college toasted him at an informal dinner on Sunday 5th June attended by many of Ken’s colleagues and family. As President, David Newbery prefaced his toast by noting the close link Ken had with the visions of our founder for a new MIT for Britain, a college devoted to science, mathematics and engineering. Ken had a distinguished undergraduate career in Cambridge, carrying off various prizes, before exile to do his engineering service – 2 years at Metro Vic, thus avoiding National Service. He applied for a post in engineering at the University of Manchester but was recruited into their maths department, where he wrote four textbooks on mathematics for engineers, worked with Alan Turing, and was the first to program computers for structural analysis. He must have been remarkably good as he provided Turing with a few-line proof of a problem in structural analysis that took Turing a tedious 10 pages. Ken returned to a post in the engineering department at the University of Cambridge in 1954, and was very happy when, in 1959, Sir John Cockroft offered him a Title A fellowship in engineering to start with the college opening in 1960. Those first few years were critical in establishing the college’s reputation, particularly in engineering, where with Dick Tizard, Ken raised standards and encouraged state schools, then a largely untapped resource, to send their brightest and best, a tradition that endures and of which we can all be proud. So, in the reflected glory that Ken and other founding fellows brought to the college, please join me in toasting Ken on his 90th birthday. David Newbery

And here is Ken’s reply Thank you David, and thank you to everyone for coming – particularly my past supervisees! I had not intended this to be a formal occasion, but in one sense

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it is a significant event in the life of the college. It is almost certain to be the last time a list of those present at the first meeting of the governing body in 1959 is read at a college dinner by someone who was actually there. Before I read that list (please see below), however, I would like to share with you two memorable conversations. One occurred at a feast in the very early days of the college. My neighbour, who I think was a college guest, turned to me and said, “Good evening. I am Austin Gresham, the University’s morbid anatomist. I dissect my academic colleagues, but at least I wait for them to die first. Who are you?” The other happened at a conference in honour of Michael Horne in Manchester shortly before I retired. The delegates were having breakfast in the hall of residence and we were all wearing our labels.The man sitting opposite me read my label, considered it and said, “Are you the Doctor Livesley who wrote those papers on computer applications to civil engineering in the early 50’s?” I replied that I probably was. He thought for a moment and then said, “You must have started very young. I thought you’d be dead by now”. I won’t bore you with further reminiscences. Minutes of the first meeting of the Governing Body, held in the Old Guest Room, Neville Court, Trinity College at 6.45 p.m. on Tuesday the 17th of November, 1959. PRESENT Sir John Cockroft

Mr R. H. Tizard

Mr J. S. Morrison

Sir Edward Bullard

Hon. R. H. Adrian

Mr R. K. Livesley

Dr W. D. Armstrong

Dr A. Kelly

Dr P. G. Ashmore

Dr B. J. Birch

Dr A. R. Katritsky

Mr M. J. Wells

Dr P. S. Squire

Major-General J. C. R. Hamilton

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A miracle of inter-collegiate cooperation The new boathouse Jennifer Brook, Bursar, gives us a flavour of the opening of the new boathouse, an enterprise that she describes as ‘a miracle of inter-collegiate cooperation’. All photos courtesy of Andy Hatfield. On the Saturday of May Bumps, Marcia Miller opened officially the new Churchill College Mays Room – the Canon Noel Duckworth Room – in the new Combined Colleges Boathouse in front of about 40 Churchill boat club alumni, Sue Brown (G73 and President of the Boat Club) and the Master. Some of those present rowed for Churchill before the previous boathouse was built! All marvelled at the comfort level in the changing rooms, showers and fitness suite. Jim Cameron and Chris Lloyd, the retired boatmen, were very gracious about the improvement in facilities for the Boathouse Manager to work on repairs to boats compared with the facilities they had to deal with in their reign. There is now a workshop long enough to take an eight and a four at the same time. The fitness suite has two sections and 16 ergs (rowing machines) for teams of rowers to warm up on. The project was a miracle of inter-collegiate cooperation with Selwyn, King’s and The Leys School. Once a new lease on the site was granted by the City Council, the selection of the architect (RH Partnership) and the development of the design went smoothly with lots of engagement with the boathouse users.

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Since the demolition of the old boathouse in June last year, our rowers have rowed from the bank with the boats stored on temporary racking on the grass which rapidly became like a First World War battlefield.Two shipping containers provided a cold dark office and store for Roland Beevor, the Boathouse Manager and some rather insalubrious other facilities. Nonetheless the Churchill crews achieved great successes during the year. Finally, during May Bumps, the Men’s new First Boat was unveiled;“Shall we dance?”, named by Lydia Luckevich, widow of Don Pinchin (G73) who generously contributed to the cost of the boat. Over 45 alumni attended the Boat Club dinner that night and toasted Don, the Queen and Sir Winston.

Jennifer Brook

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Don’s generous gift Pinchin-Riley House Naming In his speech for the naming of the Pinchin Riley House, Christopher Riley who graduated in 1975 in Engineering not only explains why the house at 64 Storey’s Way is named ‘Pinchin-Riley’ but also gives an insight into Don Pinchin, the man, their happy time together in college in the 70s and what college life was then. I’m the Riley who gave the address at the small ceremony that took place on 16 June 2016 at 64 Storey’s Way, when the recently refurbished graduate accommodation was named the Pinchin-Riley House; whom you need to know about is the Pinchin who has done me this great honour of coupling my name with his.

The Master, Christopher Riley, Dr Pinchin's daughter (Karen) and wife (Lydia) Dr Don Pinchin Dr Don Pinchin was a Canadian who came to Churchill in 1973 having obtained his BSc and MSc at the University of Toronto. He worked under Prof David Tabor at the Cavendish. When he completed his PhD, he returned to Canada, and in 1981, founded Pinchin Associates. Starting from his expertise on the safe removal of asbestos, he grew the Company to provide services across Canada relating to building science, indoor air quality, sustainability and many other

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areas. Under Don’s leadership, Pinchin Associates became the foremost company in these areas. Sadly Don died in July 2015 after a short battle with cancer. Don had many wonderful memories of his time in Churchill and Cambridge, and he and his family have been extremely generous in supporting financially both the College and the University to ensure that others can benefit from experiences similar to his. Don was an active member of the Churchill College Boat Club, rowing in one of the Fairburn Novice boats in his first term, and thereafter Don rowed, usually at 7, in most of the Lent and May bumps, graduating to the College Second Boat by the 1975 Mays. As an oarsman, he never achieved the ultimate prize of four bumps; but he coxed an Old Lags’ Boat put together for the 1977 Mays, appropriately nick-named “Last Chance”, and was rewarded with his rudder. He coached many of the novice boats, particularly the Ladies’ fours. Don’s happy memories of his rowing time at Churchill led him to gift the Boat Club with the recently acquired Men’s First Eight “Shall We Dance?”. The enormous generosity of Don and his family The University also has benefitted from Don’s success and the enormous generosity of Don and of his family. Through the Cambridge Trust, Don established the William and Margaret Brown Cambridge Scholarship to allow Canadian students to come to Cambridge to study for their doctorate as he had in 1973. Don was very conscious that this is becoming increasingly difficult for young Canadians to afford. The Scholarship is in memory of a wonderful couple from South London who never had the opportunity to attend a university but who welcomed a Canadian great-nephew into their home while he studied for his PhD at the Cavendish. Typical of Don is that the Scholarship carries their name and not his. Now this substantial gift from the Pinchin family A substantial gift has paid for the refurbishment of 64 Storey’s Way. from the Pinchin Don had been discussing a gift of this magnitude family when his illness worsened, and it is a measure of the generosity and determination of Lydia and the family to ensure that Don’s wishes came to fruition that has resulted in this funding.As Don’s family has said,

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the gift is a reflection of the magnitude of his love and appreciation for his time spent at Churchill, his desire to make positive change in the world, and the family’s resulting commitment to future students, particularly here at the College. Remembering Don What sort of man was Don? He was warm and outgoing, with a sharp analytical brain partly masked by his very human qualities, especially an infectious cheerfulness. He was generous with his time as a willing mentor, a clear communicator on complex issues, admired and respected for the family-like culture that he built in his Companies. He was generous in sharing his success with his staff, and many charitable causes, not just Churchill and Cambridge. Within his family, he is remembered for his bad jokes and an incredible knowledge of epic poetry and vintage song lyrics. The latter helps explain the Men’s Eight being called “Shall We Dance”.When they were small, Don used to lift his children into his arms and waltz them around the house, singing the famous song from ‘The King and I’. I remember Don and I singing old Music Hall songs, my wife Jenny accompanying us on the piano and Lydia videoing the proceedings, shaking with laughter. Another memory is Don walking with us through the Hampshire countryside, and returning to his roots being brought up on a farm in Canada by picking all sorts of nuts and berries from the hedgerows and offering them to his, now grown, children with unconcealed delight at their disgust. Why is Riley involved? You may wonder why Riley’s name is coupled I, apparently, with Pinchin. Don’s wife Lydia explained to me introduced him to that this was Don’s very strong wish, an act so life in college typical of Don’s generosity. A particular memory of Don’s very happy time at Churchill was joining the Middle Common Room, the warmth of the reception he received, and that I, apparently, helped him to get established, and introduced him to life in College. At the time, I was the MCR Social Secretary, organising Dining Nights, the Christmas Party, and the year that Don came we had a Caribbean Evening, complete with a Steel Band. And there was the first of the Combined Common Room Dining Nights where all three Common Rooms came together. We ended

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up with 416 participants: the capacity of Hall, with an extra sprig, was 418. These events were running anyway, and I fear I have no particular recollection of doing anything special for Don. So I feel something of a fraud that my name is coupled with Don’s as it is the Pinchins’ exceptionally generous gift that has allowed the College to refurbish the house, but I am continually assured by Lydia that that is what Don really wanted. I have said for years: “I have never met a Canadian I didn’t like.” That sentiment may have influenced my dealings with Don, in 1973 and subsequently. But Don was such a likeable person that I can’t imagine that just his Canadian-ness was the key to his charm. The Churchill of the early 1970s So what of the Churchill of the early 1970s? The Master was Prof Sir William Hawthorne, well known in certain circles, particularly the Magic Circle, and a world expert on thermodynamics and turbomachinery. Ken McQuillan was the Vice Master, Dick Tizard the Senior Tutor, and the Bursar was Hywel George, who I think after some years dealing with the residents of St Kitts and Nevis found that the Churchill Student Community made yet greater demands on his reserves of patience and understanding. There were others who contributed just as Others contributed vitally to the College. The College Porters, led as vitally to college by Mr Piercy, Bruce Saunders, the College life Catering Manager, Bob Hensher, the College Chef, and of course George the College Butler. Such people, with their unstinting desire to look after us regardless of to which Common Room we belonged, made such a contribution to College life. And, of course, there was Canon Noel Duckworth, Chaplain to the College. Any of us who rowed at Churchill in that era will have our memories of Noel, cycling pell mell along the tow path, putting himself and any passers-by in great peril of a sudden immersion, and using sometimes quite un-Pastor-like language to spur us to greater efforts. A well balanced community Churchill then, and I hope now, was such a well balanced community. I am sure that is helped by the Science and Arts mix, and also the very healthy mix of

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undergraduate and postgraduate members.The postgraduates have a leavening effect on the undergraduates and stop them doing anything too silly, and the undergraduates have a lightening effect on the post grads, and stop them being too old and boring. Both student communities are helped and encouraged by a very forward-looking Senior Common Room. Churchill has an unique culture: open, welcoming, the Master had been warned about it before she arrived: it was described to her as ‘very friendly and unstuffy’. I had colleagues in the lab where I worked who used to love coming here because they found it so much nicer than their own College and after Dining Nights would say: “I wish we could do something like this.” The Churchill community achieves academic excellence while engaging and supporting the members of all three Common Rooms in life shaping experiences. For Don and me, our time here was very special, particularly when we looked back. The current community, living within it, may be only dimly conscious of the College’s culture; but that is what Don and I remember from the 1970s, what we have been so happy to rediscover on our occasional visits since, and what has inspired Don’s generosity. The current resident Members of College are managing and nurturing this inheritance on trust: from the most recently joined undergraduate to the Master, supported by the ever-loyal College staff, you must take this inheritance “Forward”. The Graduate House carrying Don’s name will be a constant reminder of his and his family’s generosity that will make the task just a little easier.

Christopher Riley

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A Very Beautiful, Charming and Clever Woman Natasha Squire at 85 Professor Mark Goldie kindly agreed to say a few words at Natasha Squire’s surprise birthday party organised by a few Fellows in her honour on 6th July 2016. Tonight’s Fellows’ dinner is a surprise birthday party for Natasha Squire, who is 85 next week. It is given to only a few people to be the shapers of new colleges. But Natasha has shaped not one but two colleges, for she is a member also of Lucy Cavendish, where she became Senior Tutor. But tonight we celebrate her contribution to fashioning the very first community of Fellows at Churchill. Your late husband, Peter, was appointed a Founding Fellow in 1959, and you moved into the Sheppard Flats the moment they were opened in 1961. Straightaway your flat became an annexe of the Senior Common Room, your hospitality and vivacity breathing life into the embryo college. People of that generation all remember what they were doing when they heard the news of JFK’s assassination. A moment of time frozen in Archie Howie’s memory is being handed a glass of wine by you after a Fellows’ tennis match, when the news came through. You and Peter were Russianists. Your own background is Russian. Peter went to Russia during the War as a British Military Intelligence officer. To be sombre for a moment: it is fair to say that the tragedies of the twentieth century touched your lives more than most. Peter was exposed to the appalling risk of being torpedoed on the Arctic convoys. You lived in Paris during the Nazi Occupation. After the War, another fundamental of that century shaped your lives: the Cold War. You became teachers in Cambridge for the Joint Services Language course. More than one published memoir records your eminent role as a Russian teacher: the memoir of Alexander Todd, the Nobel chemist, who visited the Soviet Union several times, and of Rodric Braithwaite, former British Ambassador to Moscow. It was at the Joint Services centre in Station Road that you first met Peter. My five-year-old son has a series of books Natasha was present called Where’s Wally? In each busy crowded at all the key events scene Wally is always present and you have to try to find him. Natasha, you were present at all the key events of the early years

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of the College, and you are always in the photos, if you search. When Winston Churchill came to plant a tree in 1959, you were there.When the College was officially opened in 1964, you were there – indeed, you created the menu and masterminded the chefs. In a world, such as ours now is, dominated by utilitarian considerations, by performance indicators, outputs, and targets, you constantly remind us of the importance of the art of life. What has mattered to you, what you have impressed on those around you, is civility, decorum, grace, courtesy, elegance; and a love of the fine arts. Your entry in the Lucy Cavendish website tells us that your interests are travel, opera, ballet, art, friends, … and Churchill College.Your own home in Grantchester Road is a showpiece of postwar architecture and design. The house, and our College’s dining hall, are both wonderfully illustrated in Elain Harwood’s new book on post-war architecture. I close with a quotation from a very unlikely place, but apt for this scientific college, a book called Reflections on Liquid Helium by Elevter Andronikashvili, a Soviet physicist who worked in Moscow and Tbilisi, and was a student of the great Nobel physicist and Honorary Fellow of Churchill College, Pyotr Kapitza. In 1960, hosted by David Shoenberg, Andronikashvili visited Cambridge, just at the time when you were about to embark on your venture of shaping the College’s community. In his memoir Andronikashvili writes: ‘I spent several remarkably interesting, pleasant, and memorable hours in lively discussion with the charming Mrs Squire, a twenty-nine year old lady of ideal Russian beauty, a Parisian by birth and manner, and lecturer in Russian language at Cambridge University.“So did you like Natasha Squire?”, Shoenberg asked me next day.“She is a very beautiful and charming woman and, what is important, very clever”‘.1

Mark Goldie 1 Reflections on Liquid Helium (American Institute of Physics, New York, 1989), p. 217. Translated from the Russian edition of 1980. Andronikashvili lived from 1910 to 1989; Stalin Prize, 1952. On his Cambridge visit he met Frisch, Hall, Perutz, Pippard, and Vinen.

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Leadership Programmes Gillian Secrett, CEO of the Møller Centre tells us of two new initiatives related to young leaders of the future the Centre has successfully introduced this year at Churchill College. Going Forward with Confidence Preparing Young Leaders of the Future – Churchill Leadership Fellows ‘Young people must take it upon themselves to ensure that they receive the highest education possible so that they can represent us well in the future as future leaders.’ Nelson Mandela. As part of the international celebration of the life and legacy of Sir Winston Churchill, Churchill 2015, The Møller Centre’s Executive Education team in conjunction with Learn to Lead developed and launched a unique programme for young leaders. The Churchill Leadership Fellows’ programme was designed to develop a group of high potential individuals who were selected based on their passion and commitment to making a positive impact as leaders of the future. The programme aims to equip leaders with the essential skills, capabilities and behaviours required to engage high performance teams and lead through change. Areas covered include leadership and management; self-awareness and selfdiscipline; networking and presentation skills; leading with purpose and resilience; assertiveness; decision making and influencing; how to engage high performance teams; innovation and design thinking and career and life planning. One of the young leaders on the inaugural Academic insight programme was Churchill College MCR alongside practical skills President, Sonke Hee, who told The Review,‘The Churchill Leadership Fellows programme has been fantastic! I have received an internship at my first choice company (within strategy consulting) and I have no doubt that the programme has directly influenced this. In a sentence, the course has given me academic insights alongside practical tools that have shaped my understanding of group work by opening up the topic as

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something that can be studied and, ultimately, influenced by a leader. In a word – awareness. I connect day-to-day situations with the course materials far more frequently than I expected to: whilst networking, whilst understanding people’s behaviour in teams, and in using practical tools to increase creativity. And I have a much clearer path now for myself to achieve some of my professional goals. It is the type of learning experience that you quickly take for granted, and then makes you wonder how you viewed the world before it.” Patrick Hoffmann, alum of Trinity College and founder of Cambridge Development Initiative (CDI), said,“The Churchill Leadership Fellows’ programme

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has been a unique opportunity to take stock of what I have done and to go forward with a new sense of confidence and momentum. I have been able to figure out how to lead others in a way that is empowering, while also staying true to myself. I feel resolved now to make up for the weaknesses I identified and to take charge of how I learn and grow.” The Møller Centre is seeking corporate sponsorship for the programme, which is endorsed and supported by rugby world cup winning coach Sir Clive Woodward.We are able to offer creative and high impact sponsorship packages including co-branding, media advertising, certification ceremony presence and presentation opportunities at the assessment centre. Corporate sponsorship will make a real difference to future leaders and in turn could add significant value to an organisation’s social responsibility programme. For more information see www.mollercentre.co.uk/young-leaders.

Developing students’ self-awareness and self-belief Churchill Undergraduates Future Leaders’ Programme Following the success of the Møller Centre’s ‘Churchill Leadership Fellows’ Programme’ which equips, models and sustains leadership among new generations, a specific programme has been developed for Churchill College undergraduates to introduce students to some fundamental aspects of leadership. Twenty Four undergraduates enrolled in the programme which was delivered over the 2015-16 academic year at The Møller Centre in a series of presentations, group discussions, dynamic and experimental workshops and followed up with one-to-one conversations with peers and tutors. Dr Sally Boss, Senior Tutor, explained, ‘The pilot Sound programme was designed to develop students’ selfunderstanding awareness and self-belief with the aim of enhancing of effective their confidence both in study and for their future leadership career development. As well as providing training which helped students to improve their academic performance our undergraduates learnt fundamental aspects of leadership and transferable skills aimed at enhancing their confidence. By giving students a sound understanding

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of effective leadership and by helping them to better understand what they represent and how their personal narrative will shape their future, we believe the programme will open up new possibilities for students’ future career pathways .’ In June, Professor Dame Athene Donald presented students with certificates held in honour of the first cohort of Churchill Future Leaders.Three undergraduates gave testimony of how the programme had benefited them including Angharad Devereux, who explained, ‘The leadership programme helped me in a very practical way. The course was crucial in keeping my positivity and perseverance and giving me tangible means to meet my idealistic goals.’

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An Iconic Building The Opening of Cowan Court Jennifer Brook, Bursar, gives us a full account of the official opening of Cowan Court by HRH Richard, Duke of Gloucester on Friday 23rd September, the new undergraduate building that will also double up as conference guests’ accommodation out of term time. Following a tour of the building, the Duke of Gloucester who was an architecture student of Professor Marcial Echenique told the invited audience of alumni donors, Fellow donors and the project team who developed the plans for the building and saw it through to completion in July, that “Cowan Court is the right building, at the right place and for the right purpose”. Unconventional Design To meet current student expectations and those of conference guests, all 68 rooms have double beds and have ensuite shower rooms. However the design is anything but conventional. All rooms face outwards with large, triple-glazed windows – and the Churchill window seat beloved of generations of Churchill students.The landing around the inside of the court which forms the circulation space is fully glazed and looks into a wooded garden – the reverse of a traditional court.There is generous provision of snack kitchens, a trunk room and a laundry in the building. Three of the bedrooms are accessible for wheelchair users and there is a lift in the building. Generous Donors The court is also the first significant project in the College which has been made possible by donations from alumni and Fellows, and in particular Michael Cowan (UG1970) after whom the court is named and Greg (UG1966) and Rosie Lock. Many others have contributed including the group of friends from the early years of the College, led by Ronald Sandford (UG1965), who have named the new meeting room in the building, The Sixties Room. Other significant donors are each recognised above the door of one of the student rooms. An Iconic Building The building is linked to the College’s district heating system, utilising our newly-

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replaced boilers. It has rainwater attenuation tanks, UV absorbent glass in the triple-glazed windows, photo-voltaic panels on the roof and is, of course, clad in reclaimed oak timber planks from the flooring of French railway carriages. The building is also timber framed with the only concrete forming the basement, the footings and the stairwells. It is going to be a very comfortable place to live. Bespoke Danish-style furniture has been designed for the bedrooms which all have a window seat overlooking the College grounds.

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The external appearance of the building, with its gently curving walls clad in reclaimed oak timber boards attracts plenty of comment, as Churchill College is once again responsible for bringing to Cambridge an iconic building. What is clear for all to see is that the building will age gracefully, just as the original Sheppard Robson courts have done, and will be much enjoyed by generations of students to come. The building was designed by 6A Architects who were appointed after a competition in 2007 and the main contractor was SDC, a Bedford-based firm. As Michael Cowan, the principal donor to the project, said: “This Court was built on time and essentially within budget. We are delighted with the result for architectural merit, for being environmentally responsible, for functionality and for aesthetics. We wish everyone who stays here, or visits here, or travels down the Madingley Road and looks across – we wish them well.“

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JCR going ‘Forward!’ JCR Report 2015-2016 Mudit Gupta, the JCR President, is in his 2nd year of reading chemical engineering. Although currently based in St Louis, USA, he is originally from India. Here he describes all the activities the JCR has been involved in in 2015-2016 and how it is definitely moving ‘Forward!’ It is a great pleasure to be able to report the JCR activities and key events from the past year. Having been International Welfare Officer at the time, it seems apt to start by describing what a roaring success both International Freshers’ Weeks and Freshers’ Week were. International Freshers’ Week began with the arrival of international students from across the globe familiarising themselves with British culture, getting to know their new surroundings and fellow undergrads through various tours and events. I couldn’t help but be reminded of how I was in their shoes a year ago and what a long way I had come since then. Then came the rush of apprehensive home students. Yet more nervous than the incoming students was the JCR Committee, desperately hoping everything would go according to plan. The week was packed with numerous activities such as barbecues, punting, night outs and icebreakers. As already mentioned overall, both Freshers’ Weeks were a big success and have set a high standard for future years. It was warming to see Freshers with a keen outgoing attitude establish friendships which have continued throughout the year. The highlights of Michaelmas Term included a CUSU affiliation debate followed by a vote which ended in a landslide victory for the “Stay” campaign, and the

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JCR pantomime entitled “Wizards of Ozbridge” expertly written by the outgoing President – Nathan Hardisty.The Committee worked extremely hard to make this a success, rehearsing frequently and making great efforts to source and design props. The play was a humorous take on various aspects of college life and consequently was extremely popular among students.The panto raised over £350 which was split between two student-chosen charities: Wintercomfort Cambridge and International Red Cross. At the end of Michaelmas Term, I took over from Nathan as JCR president. I have thoroughly enjoyed being president for the past two academic terms, although it is definitely a role with both ups and downs. Open Meetings have continued their recent uplift in attendance with many contentious issues being tackled and useful contributions from students of all years. In Lent’s JCR Committee hustings, most positions were contested and we experienced some of the biggest voter turnouts in recent years. 2016 can rightly be described as a year of change and progress for the JCR. The much-debated and controversial Rent Reform initiative, a proposal that could not be agreed upon in 2015, was a top priority for this year’s Committee. The main problem was the seemingly arbitrary nature of the pricing and the lack of information available to incoming students to explain said pricing. The JCR Committee made every attempt to consult students at each stage of the process through surveys and an Open Meeting and succeeded in coming up with a workable model which will be tested in the upcoming ballot cycle. With regards to improvements, the JCR Games Room received a revamp with new sofas, bean bags, a dart board and a free-to-play pool table, in addition to the free table football which was installed last year. For the first time, College organised a “Wellness Week” in Easter Term to give students a chance to come away from their study and de-stress through a variety of activities including yoga, mindfulness, colouring sessions and crochet. The JCR Committee complemented these by continuing the trend of greatlyappreciated free food events from last year, as well as organising other events such as a dog petting day, rounders and movie nights.

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Overall, the work done by the JCR Committee over the past year can appropriately be described by the Churchill motto ‘Forward’, and we have certainly taken big steps in improving student life at Churchill. I am looking forward to leading the organisation of Freshers’ week next year and to encountering all the surprises the new intake of students will certainly provide.

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A Thriving and Supportive MCR Community MCR Report 2015-2016 Clara Tang from New Zealand is the President of the MCR and a 3rd year PhD student in Physiology, Development and Neuroscience. Here she describes the many events and activities that the MCR is involved in to give support to Churchill’s thriving international MCR community. 2015-16 has been a fantastic year for the MCR! I feel very fortunate to be a member of one of the most awesome, fun, inspiring communities in Cambridge. In October, we welcomed over 130 new graduate students into our MCR community with a successful, busy Freshers’ week filled with foosball competition, international potluck night, parents’ wine and cheese, pub crawls, to name just a few events! Our signature event at the end of every term, the MCR Guest night, continues to flourish! We entertained 410 Churchill students and guests last Lent Term, with a Time Tunnel themed party that includes a themed 3 course meal, live band, silent disco, casino, Doctor Who Tardis Photobooth and karaoke; definitely a highlight on all of our social calendar! We have had many other events this past year too, including picnic at the Botanic Garden, whiskey tastings, Chinese New Year celebrations, BBQs, cocktail parties… On Mother’s Day, MCR families had the chance to enjoy a family Formal Hall at our Dining Hall. We also had a Christmas party, an Easter Egg hunt and trick-ortreating at Wolfson Flats for all the Churchill children. There have also been a number of swaps throughout the year where some MCR students went to Formal Hall at various colleges such as St John’s, Robinson’s, Trinity Hall and Murray Edwards (New Hall), encouraging inter-College mingling. In addition, throughout term-time, we organise weekly academic seminars to showcase all the fascinating cutting-edge research undertaken by Churchill students and Fellows.Topics are diverse, ranging from neuroscience, music, German

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literature to quantum physics. If you are curious, these talks can be found on Churchill College’s CHUtalks webpage. Easter Term’s Conference on Everything (see page 116) was also a fantastic event that highlighted all the talented researchers in our midst. We were very grateful to have Dr David White, a Churchill MCR alumnus and a current Senior Technology Officer at Schlumberger, share his advice and tips in a Presentation Workshop prior to the Conference. It was incredibly valuable.Thank you to all of those who attended! With our wide variety of activities, we endeavour to build a sociable, supportive MCR community where everyone feels welcome. We aim to help all of our students de-stress while also supporting their academic interests and enrich their time at one of the best colleges in one of the world’s best universities. It has been an incredible year and I look forward to seeing the MCR community continue to grow and flourish. It has been a privilege to get to know all of the Churchill graduate students and to those who graduated this Summer – all the best for all your future endeavours!

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The MCR Photo Competition

The theme of this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s MCR Photo Competition was Quintessentially Churchill. We reproduce here the three winning photos.

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The Conference on Everything The Conference on Everything is a well-established annual event in the MCR calendar. It showcases the excellent and diverse research that our MCR students are involved in and in the process it helps them hone their presentation and poster skills for the future. On the first Saturday of Easter Term, our MCR academic officer organises the annual Conference on Everything showcasing all the interesting and innovative research carried out by our MCR members. Thanks to Chris Cummins and the AV Team, this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s event was streamed live for the first time! It was a superb, enjoyable day with fantastic presentations of which all were of a very high standard. The Conference opened with an inspiring keynote talk by Dr Ramsey Faragher, the CEO and Founder of Focal Point Positioning Ltd. on his career and top tips for success. This year, we had 14 x 6-minute talks and 10 posters on a diverse range of topics including dark energy, sustainability, drug delivery and many more! After a tough deliberation by the judges â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Clara Tang (MCR President), Dr Justin Palfreyman, Dr Steve Marsh, Dr Iain Bratchie (all Churchill alumni) and our Master Professor Dame Athene Donald, the Sir David Wallace Prize (for best presentation) was awarded to Jacob Martin for his engaging presentation on CO2 reduction. Alex Bastounis, with his entertaining presentation on compressed sensing came in a close second! Bowen Ding won the Alex Mischenko Prize (for best poster) for his informative poster on aerodynamics. A big thank you to all the presenters, the judges, our Tutor for Advanced Studies Dr Barry Kingston, who chaired the event, and last but not least, the biggest thanks to our wonderful academic officer, Lucy Tallentire, for organising this fantastic event!

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CHUTalk What is the universe made out of? Sonke Hee, a cosmologist PhD student , gave a CHUTalk this year explaining the purpose of his research. He is giving us a flavour of his talk in this article. If I asked you “what is the universe made out of”, what might spring to mind? Maybe you would suggest atoms, such as those that make up tables and laptops and printed copies of The Review. That would be a great answer! After all, stars and galaxies are mainly Hydrogen and Helium and similar elements. One might go further and include light too, such as sunlight or radio waves, which contain energy. Interestingly, we’ve not really experienced other forms of ‘stuff’ in the universe than those two broad categories (baryonic matter and radiation, to be technical), but when we observe the universe we are left concluding that this only constitutes 5% of what is out there... I hope to convince you that the remaining 95% is The remaining made up of Dark Matter and Dark Energy, and 95% is made up very importantly, why we believe this is so. As a of Dark Matter cosmologist, I attempt to study the universe as and Dark Energy one object, one system that we can know everything about, and when doing so we stumble across some wonderful conclusions. For example, we believe that the universe started with the Big Bang – the instant coming-into-existence of an infinitely large universe. When matching simulations of our universe with what we see in the sky, we find that the existing galactic matter is not sufficiently heavy to create the universe we live in, and to correct simulations we add in an additional 5 times as much mass in the form of invisible Dark Matter. Then it’s perfect! Dark Energy, however, is needed to explain a vastly different observed phenomenon, one where something is pushing the universe apart. The interplay of baryonic and Dark Matter, which pull the universe together, and Dark Energy, which pushes the universe apart, is key to understanding the universe’s future. Current observations point to Dark Energy dominating and creating a universe that will expand at ever faster rates. In my PhD research I attempt to characterise Dark Energy to define how strong this pushing is,

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with my data currently suggesting that the universe faces a gentle expansion. However, it is also entirely possible that the universe will tear itself apart in a Big Rip!

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'We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Winston Churchill

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The Importance of Giving Michael Cowan, UG 1970 in Engineering, Chair of Churchill Collegeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Development Board and one of our major donors is making the impassioned case for giving to Churchill College so that we can continue to be a leading college recruiting the best students at home, in the EU and internationally and giving opportunities to all students meeting the high entry standard. Many would see the Case for Giving towards education as an individual decision and indeed much giving to Churchill College has been motivated by personal experience at college or elsewhere in life. Apart from sentimental factors there is also an intellectual case for supporting a leading college. Churchill College is the national and Commonwealth memorial to Sir Winston Churchill, Britainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wartime Prime Minister who led the struggle against Nazi tyranny. The College was founded by Royal Charter in 1960 to become one of the 31 constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge, which had started 750 years earlier. Sir Winston Churchill had visited Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1949 and cognisant of the contribution of science and engineering towards winning two World Wars he expressed hope that a similar institution could be created in Britain. The final plan was to acquire a 42 acre site in West Cambridge and the first buildings rose in 1960 with the Dining Hall, the largest in Cambridge, being inaugurated in 1964.

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Churchill College many achievements

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At the creation the College was dedicated to three special purposes, all of which prevail today. Firstly an emphasis on science and technology with 70% of students and academic staff in natural or medical sciences, engineering or mathematics. Secondly an emphasis on postgraduate education with one third studying for master’s or doctoral degrees. Thirdly an emphasis on visiting fellowships bringing distinguished scholars to Cambridge from around the world. Since this inception the College became the first men’s college to admit women, it pursued a meritocratic policy in undergraduate admissions, such that typically three quarters of the undergraduate admissions are from the state sector, it became the home of the Churchill College Archives Centre now housing the papers of over 700 key figures of the Churchill era and later and the college has established the Moller Centre for Continuing Education. Today Churchill College has 150 fellows, 330 postgraduates, 470 undergraduates, 50 By-Fellows and 150 support staff. There are nearly 10,000 undergraduate and graduate alumni and for nearly 60 years now these have demonstrated a contribution to industry and society. Gifts to College Certainly there have been many associated with Churchill College who contributed to the formation and development with the best of intentions. The initial appeal launched in 1958 aimed to raise £3.5m, equivalent to £50m today. In this Founding Appeal, 35 entities, largely British companies each gave over £35,000, equivalent to £500,000 today. Subsequent appeals in 1985 and more recently would include 40 further donating companies, foundations and individuals who have given at least comparable amounts. Three alumni have given larger amounts and have been recognised as Benefactor Fellows for their philanthropy. The largest single gift was for £10m by the Danish shipping and logistics entrepreneur, Maersk McKinney Moller through the A.P. Moller and Christine McKinney Moller Foundation. He had been sent by his father to New York to run the company fleet during World War II. He had lent some of the fleet to Britain for the North Atlantic convoys and he always remembered Winston

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Churchill for his personal contribution to the liberation of Copenhagen. The Moller Centre was opened in 1992 recognising the need for lifelong development for commercial and professional clients. The centre is run as a trading company with its annual profits being covenanted to Churchill College to invest in yet further higher education. Two other Benefactor Fellows have also been recognised following major donations. Excellence based on meritocracy We do need to ask if this benefaction, the Excellence secured pursuit of academic values by the members of on meritocracy College and the intellectual rigour has all been based on ability worthwhile. Well, 60 years later the Times Higher Education Review ranks Cambridge University fourth in the world ahead of fifth placed MIT. I like to think that Churchill College has helped give MIT a run for their money. In the Cambridge Tompkins table, Churchill College came third in 2015 with 91% achieving either a first or upper second in their final year, and only just behind Trinity and Magdalene. Churchill College now has thirty past and current Fellows and members with a Nobel Prize, including one alumnus. There are many other measures that would support the claim that Churchill College has been very successful. Naturally, Churchill College has not directly helped everyone in the country, Europe or the world; indeed many would say it has elements of elitism, but that was a goal, to be up there amongst leading Universities of the World. The aim is excellence secured on a meritocratic basis founded on ability and neither class, ethnicity nor gender. Selection for entrants meanwhile is from all nations but aimed at securing the best prospects for a significant future contribution to their subjects. Why there is still a need to give to Churchill College Churchill College has built an endowment of about ÂŁ80m over the first 60 years. However, many town colleges have far bigger endowments, in fairness built up over 600 years. Our problem is that we are a big college in numbers of undergraduates, postgraduates and fellows, such that our endowment per member is far lower than desirable. The UK Government continue to pay less and less of the required teaching spend and only a combination of student contributions, research grants and private benefaction combined with some commercial income too, can make up the difference. An endowment of five

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times the current size would just enable us to catch up with some of the town colleges, let alone the American model. Any alumni considering giving to Churchill Education and College will without doubt have had many knowledge are requests for donations from other causes. beneficial to all Indeed people often tell me of approaches from their school, from other schools, colleges or universities, hospitals, care homes, hospices, medical research agencies or environmental and political causes. Many of these are thoroughly deserving and competition for philanthropy dollars is high. My own view is that education and knowledge are beneficial to all; an investment in education at Churchill College will support future teachers, researchers, practitioners and leaders. It will help many subjects such as tackling diseases, dealing with big data, creating sustainable cities, making sense of social change or informing on research of the Churchill era and beyond. In order to stay world class, Churchill College needs to attract the best students, teaching staff, research and professional fellows. Whilst many candidates, whether students or fellows, seek a position at the University of Cambridge, we are keen to have the best at Churchill College so with better facilities and accommodation we will have a special attraction. Competition for the best from Europe, America, Asia and elsewhere is not going to weaken. Many ways of helping the college There are several ways in which alumni can help Churchill College. Some have and continue to help with time and energy on committees or by lecturing, for example, at the Moller Centre or volunteering time with the Alumni Association, or at talks and reunions. Many have responded financially to various campaigns. Currently there is a pressing need for undergraduate bursary funds, for teaching in specific subjects such as mathematics, English and modern languages, for support to disabled students, for sport and music funding and many others.The completion of the 68 bedroom Cowan Court has taken nine years since inception, and not surprisingly, a further need for 35 rooms for advanced students is now a priority. Hence there are calls for cash now to keep the College abreast with new developments and being able to offer on-site accommodation for all students is a vital.

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Unfortunately, whilst growing up as a young college we did not excel at keeping in touch with all alumni. Contact has been disjointed and intermittent such that we have no contact details for 2,500 alumni. Any help in finding them would be much appreciated. Furthermore the participation rate of alumni giving at Churchill College has historically been low against an average for other colleges in Cambridge and a pale achievement when compared with a couple of town colleges. Another popular way to donate There is another popular way to donate in the future. This involves legacies. Legatorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; pledges currently amount to over ÂŁ10m from 99 people, and when confirmed in writing leads one to becoming a member of the 1958 Churchill Society, which meets at an annual College lunch. Naturally, this money cannot be spent yet, but it is encouraging to the fellows and staff to know that those with connections see the work of Churchill College as a good cause. The Churchill College Archives Centre has now been added to UNESCOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s international memory of the world register. Consequently it still attracts further collections of papers, documents and items that require digitising and being made available for research to a wider public.This requires ongoing funding and resources for many projects. Across the College the list of funding goals is Together we can far longer than mentioned here. It is true that make a difference we cannot help with all the problems of the world, but we have a site that could support further development, we have ideas and talent to take projects forward, and we have identified programmes that fit with the original and subsequent missions. We do ask for help from alumni and friends for this very good cause. Quite frankly, we need all the help that any of you may be able to offer. Some have mentioned to me that they feel that they cannot make any significant impact. Well, surely 10,000 alumni and friends of Churchill College together can make a difference.

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An Alternative Graduate Experience David Race graduated in Mathematics in 1975 and had a successful career – as a teacher and a researcher – which took him from England to South Africa and the USA. In 1991 he contracted ME and had to give up work permanently two years later. Here he relates his successes and illness and urges us to show patience and understanding for people with similar illnesses. Each autumn I read the Churchill Review with great interest, especially any articles or news of my contemporaries, though sadly I have reached an age where I check the obituaries first. It is fascinating to read of the great successes of many and of the accolades they have received. However, there are Churchillians whose lives have been blighted by unexpected bereavement, family break-ups and by physical or mental ill health. If you will permit me, I would like to share a little of my own experience, which began with success and then hit a brick wall comprising a weird illness which is little understood. It is my hope that – if you persist to the end of this article – you will understand a little more about that particular illness too. My Successes I came up to Churchill to read mathematics in 1972, the momentous year in which it became co-educational. Coming from a State school, however, there was nothing novel for me in its being co-educational. After graduating I spent a year studying for an M.Sc. in Functional Analysis and Differential Equations at Dundee University. Unable to get a job during the recession in Britain and with a Christian desire to serve overseas, I accepted a job as a temporary assistant lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand. The next 7 years were spent having a wonderful, exciting time in South Africa, based in Johannesburg. I duly acquired a PhD and was promoted up to being a tenured senior lecturer by the time I left. In 1984 I began work as a mathematics lecturer at the University of Surrey, where Tony Kelly (as vice-chancellor) would always delight in telling me any snippets of news about Churchill College which he had acquired behind the

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scenes. In 1990 I set off on a year’s sabbatical leave in the U.S.A: a semester teaching calculus at Northern Illinois University followed by 8 months as a visiting researcher at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. It was a very successful and enjoyable year during which I visited 27 different States, saw 27 animal species and over 250 bird species and … oh, yes … I got some research done, culminating in lots of published papers! I returned to Guildford in August 1991 but then my story deviates from the usual Churchill Review success stories. My illness It was in October 1991 that a flu-like viral illness hit several of us at work. Some were hit badly during Freshers’ week but I was not too bad at first. Unfortunately over the rest of the term I alternated between struggling giving lectures and having to take the odd week off sick. In January 1992 I had to give up work, bracing myself for a term off before gradually returning. However, a diagnosis of Post Viral Fatigue Syndrome (PVFS), better known as ME, explained the severity and development of further symptoms. Ultimately this led to my being retired in 1994, aged 40, having never returned to work at all. Unable to travel more than c. 3 km in a car, to manage the hustle and bustle, movement and sound in a church service or busy restaurant, or to read more than a few pages of print at a time, means that my whole life had hit a brick wall. With the loss of job, career and much of one’s social and spiritual life, one goes through a grieving process. Thankfully, unlike many ME sufferers, I have no financial concerns due to the excellent university pension scheme. Although it has not been easy, my Christian faith enables me to cope emotionally and mentally and especially as a single person I appreciate the practical help of friends. There is no proven cure or effective treatment for the illness, only treatments to alleviate individual symptoms. When I was assessed I was told that I was “already doing all the right things” and should continue to do so. So what actually is PVFS/ME? Many doctors now use the broader term chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). In the U.S.A. it is often called chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome (CFIDS), which doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue! Whereas many illnesses affect mainly one of the body’s systems, PVFS/ME affects five: the muscular system, the nervous system, the brain itself,

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the digestive system and the immune system. It remains unclear as to which of these is the origin of the problem but the initial assault on the body, usually by a virus or a vaccination, leaves a damaged immune system and something going wrong with the chemistry of the brain. It has a lot in common with both Multiple Sclerosis and Post-Polio Syndrome. Patience & Understanding Over the 25 years that I have been debilitated by the illness I have repeatedly read newspaper articles, sometimes supported by a minority of health professionals, suggesting that all one has to do is to adopt a positive mental attitude and get progressively more exercise. If only that were true I would now be writing an article about my ongoing successful career and about my travels around the globe. Fortunately, I can at least enjoy birdwatching walks in two different directions from my home when I am in a better phase. I hope that readers will spare a thought for those college members whose lives have been changed by ME and all the other life changing illnesses in the world. If you work in biological sciences or medicine and are looking for an area of medical research then this illness is an open door for you. If you encounter someone with PVFS/ME in your business or social life, please be patient and understanding with them. I congratulate all of you whose lives have been entirely successful but my thoughts go out to those whose lives have hit a brick wall such as personal tragedy, physical or mental illness of any sort.

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From Pav to Turner Prize Joe Halligan and Angus Goodwin Dr Minna Sunnika-Blank, Director of Studies in Architecture, tells us about the exceptional achievement of two of her students at Churchill College and the project that is being set up at Churchill with the help of the Turner Prize winners’ Assemble Collective. Some of you may remember how popular Pav was around ten years ago. It was the place to be on Friday night and it war run by two energetic architecture students, Joseph Halligan (U06) and Angus Goodwin (U06). Together with a group of other Cambridge graduates, Joe and Angus started to do small cultural installations and formed the Assemble Collective in 2010. Their start up project was the Cineroleum, a derelict petrol station turned into a pop-up cinema on Clerkenwell Road in London. In addition to pavilions and exhibition spaces, the collective has focused on projects with a social agenda in vulnerable areas, such as the Granby Four Streets in Toxteth. A ‘collaborative practice with a DIY mentality’ This year Assemble won the Turner Prize, the most important and publicised acknowledgement in visual arts in Britain that have brought forward people like Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin – and Assemble are even not calling themselves artists. Joe very modestly describes Assemble as a “collaborative practice with a DIY mentality”.They seem quite unbothered by the controversy following the Turner Prize whether their work is art or not. Joe says he is “an amateur” and “when you are not an expert you can challenge the status quo”. The Assemble Collective What is fascinating about the way that Assemble works is how the collective includes not only architects and designers but colleagues with a background in History, Philosophy and English. This structure – where colleagues from humanities are actively, and permanently, included in the design process (‘we like to blur lines between disciplines’) and building very practical, down to earth end products – is rather unique in the world of art and architecture and one of the reasons why Assemble’s work is so original and has depth to it. Joe says that while these colleagues do not draw, they are essential in the conceptual

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Cineroleum stage of the projects. This ability to discuss and collaborate with colleagues from other disciplines must have its roots in Cambridge education and how effortlessly students meet colleagues from other disciplines during their study and stay in the Colleges.

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My first year as Director of Studies I was the Director of Studies for Joe and Angus during their undergraduate studies in Churchill in 2006-2009. It was my first year at Churchill and I could not have started with a better year group than Joe, Angus and Rosie Garvey (U06). Rosie went on to work in the Netherlands and later with Allies and Morrison in London. All three were keen on making and building things, very good models and conceptual thinking. It was never boring with Joe, Angus and Rosie. A creative hub space at Churchill The College is now discussing the building of a creative hub space at Churchill. Led by Professor Malcolm Bolton and Barry Phipps, Engineering, Architecture, Art, Computer Science, Physics and Mathematics in the College are proposing to pool their expertise and create a space that is a combination of a workshop, a lab and a display space. The College has identified an exciting space for this that most visitors have passed by but never took much notice of: an old oil container space in between the squash courts and the studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; bicycle sheds, close to the main entrance. It is an open, triple height space covering an area of two squash courts, with an exposed brick texture. Joe and Angus have put together a team in Assemble to look at possibilities to turn this into an exciting, alternative workshop space that would allow interdisciplinary encounters, projects and exhibitions to happen, to be used by Fellows and students. I teach construction to undergraduates at the Architecture Department and can say that Assembleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s projects have found their way to student-led previous studies among classics like Le Corbusier or Zumthor. Current students like to use projects like Folly for a Flyover as inspiration and as examples of how they want their own projects to look like, be built and be used. An Assemble project in Churchill, by our own alumni who know the College inside out, would be an asset to the College and be the kind of link between humanities and science that the College embodies.

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Welcome Home! First French Government Fellow’s Annual Meeting at Churchill College July 9th 2016

Dr Yannick Champion and Dr Frédéric Thibault Starzyk previous French Fellows give us an account of the First Annual Meeting of the French Fellows and their plan for the future. ‘Welcome home!’ was what most of us heard at the Porters’ Lodge when we arrived at Churchill College on Friday 8th 2016. It is so true. For all of us the college is our second home. When we think of our fellowship, we think of an outstanding period in our respective careers where we encountered a unique experience of pluri-disciplinarity, exceptional meetings and scientific discussions. All the French Fellows acknowledge that the work they did at the University of Cambridge in their respective departments, catalysed by college life at Churchill, had and still has deep impact on various aspects of their research. ‘The purpose of the French Government Fellowship is to promote visits by French scientific research workers to the University of Cambridge while allowing them to profit by the multidisciplinary environment provided by the College surroundings. The College liaises closely with the Counsellor for Science and Technology at the French Embassy, to whom nominations by Fellows are submitted via the Fellowship Electors.’ This is the explanation given for overseas French Government Fellowships.The French Fellows are closely linked to the French Embassy and the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Together with Churchill College, they both sponsor and support this unique offering to French scientists to practise research at Cambridge – a unique and fruitful combination of French and British approaches to research. Past and current French Fellows are grateful to the French Embassy and Churchill College for this wonderful opportunity. The fellowship period is an individual experience at the college. On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the French fellowship in July 2014, the idea of initiating collective actions in the framework of our past Fellowship came up. This is why some Fellows met at Churchill College on Saturday 9th 2016. It was with immense pleasure that we were welcomed by our friend Anny King

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From left to right: Dr Jean-Yves Delenne (Fellow 2011-12), Prof Jean-Marc Dimeglio (Fellow 2011-12), Anny King (Fellow), Prof Eric Parent (Fellow 201314), Dr Yannick Champion (Fellow 1999-2000), Prof Jean-Christophe Thalabard (Fellow 2013), Prof Daniela Dragomirescu (Fellow 2013-14), Prof Serge Cohen (Fellow 2010), Dr Frédéric Thibault-Starzyk (Fellow 2003-4). In the front garden of the SCR. (Emeritus Director of the Language Centre, University of Cambridge, now retired but still very active at the college and great supporter of the French Fellows). We are all very thankful to Anny for her help in organising our first annual meeting! Discussions were very fruitful and have led to perspectives that will be suggested to all French Fellows in order to set up future actions. The specificity that the French Fellows want to exploit is the pluri-disciplinarity that was so well represented at this first meeting: Professor Serge Cohen is a mathematician, Professor Daniela Dragomirescu is an expert on micro-electronics, Dr JeanYves Delenne is an expert on the modelisation of granular materials, Professor Jean-Christophe Thalabard is a physician and a biologist, Professor Eric Parent is a specialist in applied Bayesian statistics for ecological and environmental engineering, Professor Jean-Marc Dimeglio is a physicist, and the authors of this article (Dr Frédéric Thibault-Starzyk and Dr Yannick Champion) are respectively a chemist and a metallurgist. Dr Antonin Chambolle and Dr David Holcman, both mathematicians and current Fellows also joined the group for discussions.

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Proposals now have to be formalised with all French Fellows. Through the creation of a French Fellows’ Association we wish to promote the French Government fellowship, by organising scientific events in collaboration with the Counsellor for Science and Technology at the French Embassy to promote science. We also wish to strengthen relationships between our respective Universities and the University of Cambridge, in particular for students’ exchanges and joint projects. We hope to be able to meet once a year at Churchill College for future actions, with occasional meetings in France and the organization of pluri-disciplinary Fellows’ workshops. There is a lot to do, but it seems that the first stone has been laid and the feeling at this first meeting was pure enthusiasm and real commitment.

Frédéric Thibault-Starzyk and Yannick Champion

Past Talking: the Value of Oral History Paula Laycock was Registrar of the College from 1988 to 2014 before her earlyretirement from her full-time role. She now works part-time in the College Archives as College Records Officer with a particular focus on oral history. She is one of the longest serving members of staff in the College and her recollections and memories of Churchill College are invaluable. Here she explains what she has been doing these last two years in recording the oral history of our college. Our effortless ability to make history whether we like it or not is a concept I have always found intriguing. Occasionally we will witness events and their significance will be clear. We know that history is being made. But often, an event, a smell, a sensation is experienced but then locked away in our subconscious, only to be triggered unexpectedly at a later date. And we are all guilty of discarding papers

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or objects, thinking them to be of little value, and then regretting their loss at some point in the future. How many of us have wished we’d spoken to family members about their experiences but somehow not got around to it until it was too late?

“Oral history has two (at least) dimensions. First, the vivid and evocative presence of a voice that can be preserved indefinitely. And, second, the body of information and perspectives that the interviewee provides.”

My mother is eighty-six years old. She has always been interested in family history and has a vast collection of photographs and documents. She has also written her memoirs. Interesting as they are, they don’t convey what she was like as a person. So recently, armed with a portable digital recorder I asked her to talk about some of the events in her life. It didn’t take long, some thirty Mark Goldie minutes or so, but it was sufficient. In that short session she had not only shared information that wasn’t in her memoirs, but more importantly, I had managed to capture her voice, and in so doing, her personality. So this is oral history, the capture of memories of living people, memories of events or social conditions they experienced in the past, recorded and preserved as historical evidence. As Mark Goldie says, ‘Oral history has two (at least) dimensions. First, the vivid and evocative presence of a voice that can be preserved indefinitely. And, second, the body of information and perspectives that the interviewee provides.’ What better example of this than the recordings of Sir Winston’s speeches? Those typed words on the page are brought to life as we listen to the way he emphasised certain words, hear the distinctive rhythm of his speech and the tone of his voice. When I took early-retirement from the role of Registrar in 2014 I had been in post for twenty-six years. During that time, I had served four Masters and four Bursars and over the years I had stowed away a lot of data and corporate knowledge. I was keen to preserve that information in some way, and postretirement I found myself in the new role of College Records Officer, where for a few hours a month, I now support the professional Archivists in the College Archives. The Archives already contain a number of recordings from an earlier oral history project, the value of this work being underscored when the College

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was preparing for its 50th anniversary celebrations. By good fortune, the Churchill College Association was thinking along the same lines, and we were able to pool our expertise and revive the project. The Association, under the leadership of Rosie Johnston (U73), has a group of willing volunteers ready to gather the recollections of a number of Alumni, particularly those from the early days of the College. For my part, I am focusing on former Fellows and key staff, as well as on individuals who played a seminal role in the establishment of the College. Regrettably, the number of interviews will be limited by the time it takes to transcribe a recording. Further development of voice-recognition technology will indeed make this aspect of our work less onerous. Of course, one must also be mindful of copyright ownership. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one thing to keep a personal archive within the family and quite another to give consent for future historians to publish your words. Far better to have full and frank disclosures as histories can become distorted if stories and anecdotes are sanitised in any way. Interviewees will always have the right to restrict access to a part or parts of the interview if they wish and Archives Centre staff will be happy to advise. So, at the end of the day, the recordings and transcripts will be stored in the College Archives, alongside official documents and papers. There is no doubt that they will provide a valuable insight into social history. But memories fade and we need to take stock now. Being mindful of the present will help us to preserve the past.

Paula Laycock (formerly Halson)

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New Fellows 2015-16 Dr Jason Ali (Title A) Jason Ali is a Fellow in the medical and veterinary sciences, and supervises Churchill’s MVST part IB students Mechanisms of Drug Action (pharmacology). Jason completed his medical training at Churchill, passing with distinction in June 2008. After graduation he was appointed to an Academic Foundation Programme and then a National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Academic Clinical Fellow post in surgery based at Addenbrookes Hospital. He was subsequently awarded a competitive Wellcome Trust Research Training Fellowship in 2012 funding his PhD in the field of transplantation immunology based in the University Department of Surgery. During the course of his PhD studies he was awarded the prestigious Patey Prize by the Society of Academic and Research Surgery in 2014 and the Roye Calne Award by the British Transplantation Society in 2016. He completed a Masters in Medical Education at the University of Bedfordshire in 2014. In 2016 he was appointed to the Health Education East of England training programme in Cardiothoracic Surgery as a Specialist Registrar, based at Papworth Hospital Dr Vid Simoniti (Rubinoff Junior Research Fellow) Vid Simoniti is the inaugural Jeffrey Rubinoff Junior Research Fellow at Churchill College. In 2015, he completed his doctorate in History and Theory of Art at Oxford under the supervision of Jason Gaiger and Hanneke Grootenboer. He also holds a BA in Philosophy and Politics (Reading), MA in Philosophy (UCL), and B.Phil. in Philosophy (Oxford).

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Vid’s research focus is the idea of art as an intellectual discipline, which he investigates from historical and philosophical perspectives. His current monograph project, ‘Artist as a Thinker: From Conceptual Art to Art as Research’, investigates this idea in relation to post-1960 art movements such as conceptual, computer and laboratory-based art. In addition he has wide-ranging interests across philosophy and history of art, having presented or published on topics including neuro-aesthetics,Virginia Woolf’s essays and Schopenhauer’s aesthetic theory. Vid also often collaborates with artists on research-based exhibitions, and writes on art and literature for various British and Slovene publications. Dr Conor O’Brien (Newton Gulbenkian Junior Research Fellow) Conor O’Brien studied English and History at Cork and Medieval Studies at Oxford. His primary research interests are in the intellectual and religious history of the early Middle Ages and his doctoral work focused upon the image of the Jewish temple in the writings of the Anglo-Saxon theologian and historian, Bede (d.735). That work has resulted in a monograph:‘Bede’s Temple: An Image and its Interpretation’ (Oxford, 2015). His current research explores the interplay of ideas about Christ, kingship and the secular in early medieval political theology. He has previously taught at Sheffield University. Dr Seb Savory (Title A) Seb studied Engineering at Churchill both as an undergraduate and postgraduate. His research is focused on optical fibre communication, with his interest in this field beginning in 1991 when he joined STL (subsequently Nortel), Harlow. Having been sponsored by Nortel through his undergraduate and postgraduate studies, he rejoined the Harlow Laboratories in 2000. In 2005, he moved to UCL where he held a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship from 2005 to 2007, before being appointed as a Lecturer (2007), Reader in

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Optical Fibre Communication (2012) and Professor of Optical Fibre Communication (2015). During 2014/15 he held a RAEng / Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship and was a recipient of the RAEng Colin Campbell Mitchell Award in 2015. He serves on the Steering Committee for the Optical Fiber Communication conference having previously served as a General Chair and Program Chair and is the Editorin-Chief of IEEE Photonics Technology Letters. Dr Anna Young (Title A) Dr Young undertook her MEng and PhD degrees at Jesus College, Cambridge, from 2004 to 2012. Her PhD focused on aero-engine compressors, in particular an aerodynamic instability known as stall, which can lead to catastrophic engine damage. She was awarded the Rolls-Royce prize for Best Doctorate Paper, as well as the American Society of Mechanical Engineers’ International Gas Turbine Award for work arising from her thesis. From October 2012, she was the Maudslay-Butler Research Fellow at Pembroke College, Cambridge, where she continued her work on aircraft engines, collaborating with experts in high-speed testing at Purdue University, USA. She has also been instrumental in developing the Cambridge Tidal Group at the Whittle Laboratory; the aim of this group is to transfer understanding of unsteady fluid flow from the aerospace industry to the nascent tidal power industry. She has recently taken up the post of CDT Fellow in Gas Turbine Aerodynamics at the Engineering Department. Dr Peter Sloman (Title A) Peter Sloman is a University Lecturer in British Politics at the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) and teaches politics and history at Churchill College. Before arriving in Cambridge he spent ten years in Oxford, first as a student at Queen’s – where he read Modern History and Politics (2005-

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8) and obtained his DPhil (2012) – and then as a junior research fellow at New College. His first book, ‘The Liberal Party and the Economy, 1929-1964’ (Oxford, 2015) explored how British Liberals engaged with economic thought in the era of John Maynard Keynes and William Beveridge. Peter is currently working on the history of tax-benefit integration and its role in the transformation of the British welfare state from the Beveridge Report to Universal Credit. He also retains a close interest in liberalism, political thought, and electoral sociology. Dr Tim Minshall (Title A) Tim Minshall is a Reader in Technology and Innovation Management at the Department of Engineering. His teaching and research is focused on developing understanding of how emerging technologies are used to deliver new products and services. His specific research interests are open innovation, advanced production technologies, and engineering education. He is a member of the Board of St John’s Innovation Centre Ltd, a Visiting Professor at Doshisha University (Japan), and a member of the IET’s Innovation and Emerging Technologies Policy Panel. He is a member of steering committees for ideaSpace Enterprise Accelerator, Cambridge University Entrepreneurs, and Cambridge i-Teams. In 2012 he was a recipient of a University of Cambridge Pilkington Prize for Teaching Excellence and a Royal Academy of Engineering/ExxonMobil Excellence in Teaching Award. He is actively involved in a range of outreach activities to raise awareness of engineering among primary and secondary schoolchildren (www.whatengineersdo.info). He has B.Eng. from Aston University and a PhD from Cambridge University Engineering Department.

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Dr Ronan Daly (Title A) After graduating from the University of Edinburgh with an MEng in Chemical Engineering with European Studies, Ronan became a Process Technology Manager for Unilever R&D, working with global brand teams to tackle formulation, scale-up and supply chain innovation challenges. His PhD from the School of Chemistry and the Centre for Research on Adaptive Nanostructures and Nanodevices (CRANN), Trinity College Dublin led to a new-found passion for novel manufacturing techniques. In 2011 he joined the IfM’s Inkjet Research Centre to continue his work on biosensor platforms using digital fabrication techniques and inexpensive materials for commercially-targeted tests. His current role as head of the Fluids in Advanced Manufacturing group is focused on research into chemical and physical phenomena of polymeric, biological and nanomaterials when exposed to advanced fluid-based manufacturing techniques. This combines research into novel materials and devices with exploration of their manufacturing challenges to drive effective scale-up of emerging technologies. Dr Toby Wilkinson (Junior Research Fellow) Toby Wilkinson is an archaeologist specialising in Near Eastern and central Eurasian protohistory and GIS analysis. Trained in archaeology and anthropology at Oxford and UCL, his doctoral research, completed at the University of Sheffield, used spatial modelling of travel routes to examine trade patterns during the 3rd millennium BC. He has spent considerable time working as researcher in Turkey (at the British Institute at Ankara; Koç University’s Research Centre for Anatolian Civilizations; Istanbul University’s Department of Protohistory) and continues to collaborate on a field project based in Turkey. His current research uses digital mapping to examine the role of innovations in technology and consumption patterns in the transformation of 5th and 4th millennium BC societies.

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Overseas Fellows 2015-16 Professor David Holcman (French Government Overseas Fellow 2015 – 2016) David Holcman is a Director of Research at CNRS and Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, working in Applied Mathematics and Computational Biology and an Overseas Fellow of Churchill College. He works primarily on developing asymptotic and computational methods to analyze Big data and simulate multiscale processes in molecular and cellular biology. Applications are synaptic transmission, phototransduction, cell motility, intracellular trafficking and nuclear organization. He has developed with Zeev Schuss the Small Hole Theory, to study the arrival of a Brownian particle to a small window and presented methods to extract features from Superresolution data. Professor Jason De Jong (Overseas Fellow LT/ET 2016) Jason T DeJong is a Professor at the University of California, Davis. He received a BSCE from UC Davis and an MSCE and PhD at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Through the Soil Interactions Laboratory he directs research in the areas of advanced site characterization, behaviour of intermediate and gravelly soils, bio-mediated soils processes, sustainable geotechnical practice, and deep foundation performance. Several of his developments have been implemented on large industry projects. His work has been funded through more than $8 million in grants and disseminated through more than 120 publications. His work has been recognized through the ASTM International Hogentogler Award, the ASCE Huber Research Prize and Casagrande Professional Development Award, and the ICE TK Hsieh Prize, among others.

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Professor Antonin Chambolle (French Government Overseas Fellow 2015 –2016) Antonin Chambolle is a CNRS senior scientist and a part-time associate professor at the Centre de Mathématiques Appliquées, Ecole Polytechnique in France. He is visiting the Cambridge Image Analysis group, at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. He received his PhD from Université Paris-Dauphine in 1993, in mathematics with applications to image processing. He specialises in the mathematical analysis of phenomena involving discontinuities such as fracture in materials science, evolution of interfaces or the reconstruction of images. He is also interested in numerical optimisation and has contributed to the design and study of a few practical numerical algorithms for solving image reconstruction problems. Professor Louis Geli (French Government Overseas Fellow MT 2015 – LT2016) Louis Géli holds an engineer degree from Ecole Polytechnique (1981) and a PhD in Solid Earth Geophysics from the University of Grenoble (1985). Since 1986, he has been at Ifremer, the French Governmental Institution on Marine Research, where he has headed the Marine Geosciences Research Unit from 2009 to 2015. He has more than 25 years experience in deep-sea research and ocean exploration. His main research contribution concerns the study of geological processes at mid-ocean ridges and continental margins; the understanding of geological hazards in submarine environments; and the assessment of the mineral and energetic resources of the ocean. A promoter of deep seafloor observatories, he has contributed to the development of underwater systems for the monitoring of deep-sea environments. He now focuses his own research efforts on earthquake processes at submarine faults, particularly on the role of fluids in the stressbuilding cycle.

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For complex subjects involving the prediction of geophysical phenomena — such as natural hazards, scientific knowledge is never definitive, but based on a number of hypothesis that are very difficult to apprehend by non-specialists. Experts themselves most often have difficulties in pinpointing the hypotheses on which their conclusions are based. Louis Géli is thus now highly interested in developing awareness on the gap between the current state of scientific knowledge and its perception by decision makers, private or public. Professor David Valls-Gabaud (Overseas Fellow 201-2016)

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Professor Valls-Gabaud is a Director of Research at CNRS and at Observatoire de Paris. Educated at Madrid, Paris and Cambridge, he works primarily on problems related to the formation and evolution of galaxies. He has held visiting positions at the European Southern Observatory (Chile), Royal Greenwich Observatory, Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope and as Senior International Professor of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

His research interests straddle advanced statistics, stellar physics, cosmology and the history of astronomy. He is currently heading a major effort at designing a new satellite to explore the very low surface brightness of the universe, which is revealing a hitherto unknown population of galaxies with unexpected properties. He is very committed to teaching, supervision and science outreach, especially in developing countries. Dr Pierre Vanhove (French Government Overseas Fellow 2015 – 2016)

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Dr Pierre Vanhove was educated at the Ecole normale supérieure in Paris, he received his PhD thesis from the Ecole poyltechnique in Palaiseau, and his habilitation thesis from the University Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris. After a postdoctoral research at DAMTP in Cambridge, he joined the Institut de Physique Théorique of the CEA Saclay in France as a research

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Who’s Who in Churchill This is the list of Fellows as it was on 1 October 2015; also included are Fellows and By-Fellows who joined the College in the course of the academic year 2015-16. Fellowship Categories: Fellows and By-Fellows Honorary Fellowships: an honorific position bestowed on outstanding figures; Title A: our main teaching Fellows and senior College Officers such as the Senior Tutor and Bursar;Title B Junior: Research Fellows, usually immediately post-doctoral;Title B Senior: Research Fellows, usually advanced in their careers; Title C: Fellows who hold a Cambridge University Chair (but any such Fellows who opt to continue with a full teaching stint remain Title A); Title D: Retired Fellows (“Emeritus/Emerita”); Title E, “Extraordinary”: Academics or writers of distinction whom the College wishes to include in its number but who may not be resident in Cambridge; Title F: Overseas Fellows (staying in Churchill as academic visitors and normally collaborating with Churchill Fellows in the same subject, for periods of time ranging from a term to a year, by invitation); Title G: “Supernumerary” Fellows (those who do not belong to any of the above categories but who are performing an important function in the College). Teaching By-Fellows: academically highly qualified (post-doctoral status; may be Fellows of another College) and assisting in specific areas of teaching need; Academic ByFellows: visiting researchers elected by the Archives Centre or by Fellowship Electors (the Churchill Committee that elects to most non-teaching Fellowships); Professional or Møller By-Fellows: those who have industrial or other professional links particularly relevant to Churchill (maximum number 4); Staff By-Fellows: non-academic staff members with senior managerial positions in the College administrative structure. Master Donald, Professor Dame Athene, DBE FRS

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Honorary Fellows Gurdon, Professor Sir John, DPhil, DSc, FRS

Developmental and Stem Cell Biology

Ndebele, Professor Njabulu, MA, LLD (Hon)

English Literature

Tsien, Professor Roger, PhD

Cell Biology/Neurobiology

Green, Professor Michael, PhD, FRS

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Holmes, Professor Richard, OBE, FRSL, FBA

Biographer

Nurse, Sir Paul, PhD, FRS

Microbiology

Arrow, Professor Kenneth, PhD

Economics

Robinson, Professor Dame Carol, PhD, FRS, DBE Chemistry Soyinka, Professor Wole

Literature

Vargas Llosa, Dr Mario, PhD

Literature

Atkinson, Professor Anthony

Economics

Churchill, Mr Randolph Sales, Sir Philip

Law

Uggla, Mrs Ane Maersk-Mc-Kinney

Benefactor Fellows Cowan, Mr Michael, MA

Alumnus (U70)

Rubinoff, Mr Jeffrey Wild, Mr Anthony

Alumnus (G68)

Lock, Mr Gregory

Alumnus (U66)

Fellows in order of precedence Broers, Rt Hon Lord Alec, PhD, ScD, FRS, FREng

Microelectronics

Boyd, Sir John, KCMG

Modern Languages

Wallace, Professor Sir David, CBE, FRS, FREng

Theoretical Physics

Livesley, Dr R K, MA

Engineering

Howie, Professor A, PhD, CBE, FRS

Physics

Hewish, Professor A, MA, PhD, ScD, FRS

Radio Astronomy

Steiner, Professor G, PhD, FBA

Comparative Literature

Brunton, Dr J H, PhD

Engineering

Dixon, Dr W G, MA, PhD

Applied Mathematics

Schofield, Professor A N, MA, PhD, FRS, FREng

Engineering

Newbery, Professor D M G, MA, PhD, ScD, FBA, CBE

President of SCR; Economics

Craig, Professor E J, MA, PhD, FBA

Philosophy

Westwood, Dr B A, MA, PhD

Computing Service

Whittle, Professor P, MA, PhD, FRS

Mathematics

Tristram, Dr A G, MA, PhD

Pure Mathematics

Palmer, Professor A C, MA, PhD, FRS, FREng

Petroleum Engineering

Thompson, Professor J G, MA, FRS

Pure Mathematics

Squire, Dr L C, MA, ScD

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Hoskin, Dr M A, PhD

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Abrahams, Dr R G, MA, PhD

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George, Mr H, MA, CMG, OBE

Bursar 1971-90

Finch, Professor A M, MA, PhD

French

Findlay, Dr A L R, MA, PhD,VetMB

Physiology

Gough, Professor D O, MA, PhD, FRS

Astrophysics

Echenique, Professor M, MA, DArch, BLet, OBE

Architecture

Warren, Dr S G, MA, PhD

Organic Chemistry

Ryall, Dr R W, MA, PhD

Pharmacology

Fraser, Dr C, MA, PhD

Social Psychology

Gaskell, Dr P H, MA, PhD

Physics

Barnett, Mr C, MA, DSc, CBE, FRSL

Military History

Wood, Mr H B, MA

Music

Milne, Professor W I, MA, FREng

Engineering

King, Dr F H, MA, PhD

Praelector; Computer Science

Goldie, Professor M A, MA, PhD

History

Bolton, Professor M D, MA, PhD, FREng

Engineering

Ashburner, Professor M, MA, PhD, ScD, FRS

Genetics

Mascie-Taylor, Professor C G N, MA, PhD, ScD

Biological Anthropology

Siddle, Professor K, MA, PhD

Vice-Master; Biochemistry

Hurst, Mr H R, MA

Classical Archaeology

Dawes, Professor W N, MA, PhD

Engineering

Green, Dr D A, MA, PhD

Physics/Radio Astronomy

Allen, Mr M J, MA, OBE

English Literature

Gregory, Professor Sir Michael, MA, CBE, FREng

Manufacturing/Management

Norris, Professor J R, DPhil

Mathematics

Amaratunga, Professor G, PhD, FREng

Engineering

Knowles, Dr K M, MA, PhD

Materials Science

King, Professor Dame J E, MA, PhD, CBE, DBE, FRSA, FREng

Materials Science

Walters, Dr D E, MA, PhD

Statistical Consultancy

Webber, Professor A J, PhD

German

Chatterjee, Professor V K K, MA

Pathology

Laughlin, Professor S B, MA, PhD, FRS

Neurobiology

Jennison, Miss B M, MA, MBE

Physics, Education

Crisp, Dr A J, MA, MB, BChir, MD, FRCP

Clinical Medicine

King, Mrs A N, MA

Linguistics

Kramer, Professor M H, PhD, LLD

Law/Philosophy

Brendon, Dr P, MA, PhD, FRSL

History

Soga, Professor K, PhD

Civil Engineering

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Genetics

Robertson, Professor J, MA, PhD, FIEE

Engineering

Boksenberg, Professor A, MA, PhD, FRS, CBE

Astronomy

Barbrook, Dr A C, MA, PhD

Biochemistry

Kinsella, Professor J, MA, PhD

Poet

Yuan, Dr B, PhD

Chinese and Linguistics

Brook, Mrs J M, MA, MBA

Bursar

Kraft, Professor M, MA, Dr. rer. nat.

Chemical Engineering

Sirringhaus, Professor H, PhD, FRS

Physics

DeMarrais, Dr E, PhD

Archaeology

Van Houten, Dr P, MA, PhD

Politics

Tout, Dr C A, MA, PhD

Astronomy

Mathur, Professor N D, MA, PhD

Materials Science

Gopal, Dr P, MA, PhD

English

Webb, Professor A R, PhD

Plant Sciences

Harris, Professor P A, LLM, PhD

Law

Kendall, Miss M, MA

Librarian

Packwood, Mr A G, MPhil, FRHistS

Director, Archives Centre

Thornton, Professor J M, PhD, CBE, FRS

Computational Biology

Hicks, Dr C M, MA, PhD

Engineering

Fawcett, Dr J, MA, PhD

Computer Science

Schultz, Professor W, PhD, FRS

Neuroscience

Kingston, Dr I B, PhD

Tutor for Advanced Students; Pathology

Ozanne, Professor S E, PhD

Biochemistry

Englund, Professor H M, MA, PhD

Social Anthropology

Caulfield, Professor C P, MASt, PhD

Mathematics

Reid, Dr A, MSc, PhD

Geography

Pedersen, Professor R A L, AB, PhD

Regenerative Medicine

Wassell, Dr I J, PhD

Engineering

Ludlam, Dr J J, MA, PhD

Mathematical Biology

Taylor, Dr A W, MA, PhD

English

Sunikka-Blank, Dr M M, PhD

Architecture

Boss, Dr S R, PhD

Chemistry

Hines, Professor M M, MA, PhD

Social and Developmental Psychology

Liang, Dr D, PhD

Engineering

Ralph, Professor D, PhD

Operations Research

Kennicutt, Professor R C, MSci, PhD, FRS

Astronomy

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Engineering

Goldstein, Professor R E, PhD, FRS

Mathematics

Wickramasekera, Professor N, PhD

Mathematics

McEniery, Dr C M, PhD

Physiology

Spiegelhalter, Professor Sir D J, PhD, OBE, FRS

Winton Professor: Statistics

Partington, Mr R J, MA

Senior Tutor; History

Russell, Dr P, PhD

Mathematics

Phipps, Mr B J, MA, MSt, MPhil

Curator

Knight, Mr N V, MSc

Economics

Frayling, Professor Sir Christopher, MA, PhD

Historian, critic and broadcaster

Leader-Williams, Professor N, BVSc, PhD, ScD, MRCVS C

Geography

Linterman, Dr M A, PhD

Biological Sciences

Monson, Dr R, PhD

Dean; Cell Biology

Denault, Dr L T, PhD

History

Rowland, Dr H M, PhD

B (JRF) Zoology

Ron, Professor D, MD FMedSci

Metabolic Science

Smith, Dr N P, FRCS, MA, MB, BChir

Paediatrics

Cutler, Dr N, MA, PhD

Geography

Durbin, Dr R M, PhD

B (SRF) Human Genetics

Biberauer, Dr T, MA, MPhil, PhD

Linguistics

Secrett, Mrs G

Director, Møller Centre

Honerkamp-Smith, Dr A, MSc, PhD

B (JRF) Physical Chemistry

Jardine-Wright, Dr L J, MA, MSci, PhD

Physics

Stott, Dr K, PhD

Biochemistry

Skrebowski, Dr L, PhD

History of Art

Curry, Dr H, MA, PhD

History and Philosophy of Science

Davies, Dr N S, PhD

Earth Sciences

Carter, Dr A J, PhD

B (JRF) Zoology

Owens, Dr T, MA, MSt, DPhil

B (JRF) English (Intermitting)

Gagne, Mr C, MPhil

French

Akroyd, Mr J W J, MA, MEng

Chemical Engineering

Hasan, Dr T, MEng, PhD

Engineering

Toner, Dr J, PhD

Classics

Mei, Professor J MSc, PhD

B (SRF) Historical Metallurgy and Materials

Moya, Dr X, PhD

B (SRF) Materials Science

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B (JRF) History & Philosophy of Science

Blake, Dr M, MA, PhD

B (JRF) Applied Mathematics

Alexander-Webber, Dr J, PhD

B (JRF) Electrical Engineering

Surtees, Mrs S

Domestic Bursar

Oates, Mr T, MA, CBE

Education

Onatski, Dr A, PhD

Economics

Rees, Dr E, PhD

Chemical Engineering

Anderson, Professor R, PhD, FRS, FREng

B (SRF) Computer Science

Pennant, Mr J

Development Director

De Kuijper, Dr M, PhD

Economics

Holmes, Dr M, PhD

Veterinary Medicine

Simoniti, Dr V, PhD

B (JRF) History of Art

O’Brien, Dr C, PhD

B (JRF) History

Savory, Dr S, PhD

Engineering

Young, Dr A, PhD

Engineering

Sloman, Dr P, PhD

British Politics

Daly, Dr R, PhD

Manufacturing Engineering

Minshall, Dr T, PhD

Engineering

Holcman, Professor D, PhD

Mathematics

De Jong, Professor J, PhD

Environmental Engineering

Chambolle, Professor A, PhD

Applied Mathematics

Geli, Professor L, PhD

Geophysics

Vanhove, Dr P, PhD

Applied Mathematics

Valls-Gabaud, Professor D, PhD

Astronomy

Abdi, Dr E, MPhil, PhD

TBF

Engineering

Ali, Dr J, MB, BChir

TBF

Medical & Veterinary Sciences

Benton, Dr A, MSci, MA, PhD

TBF

Computer Science

Bianchi, Mr A S, MA

TBF

Spanish

Bostock, Dr M, BA, MSci

TBF

Chemistry

Constantinescu, Dr M, PhD

TBF

Psychological and Behavioural Sciences

Overseas Fellows

Teaching By-Fellows

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Ghidini, Dr M, PhD

TBF

Materials Science

Hanson, Dr L, MA, DPhil

TBF

Philosophy

Hendrick, Dr A, PhD

TBF

Biology of Cells

Hubbard, Dr K E, BA, PhD

TBF

Biology

Hunter, Dr M, PhD

TBF

Earth Sciences

Izzard, Dr R, PhD

TBF

Astronomy

Kabeshov, Dr M, PhD

TBF

Computer Science

Meroueh, Dr A, PhD

TBF

Pure Mathematics

Sequiera, Dr S, PhD

TBF

Engineering

Tasker, Dr A, MB, BChir, MRCP

TBF

Medical Sciences

By-Fellows Bittleston, Dr S, BSc, PhD

BF (Professional)

MD, Schlumberger Cambridge Research

Bradbury, Mr A

BF (Artist)

Music

Brown, Dr G, PhD

Psychology

Davies, Mr O

BF (Artist)

Music

DiVanna, Mr J

BF (Møller)

Dutton, Mr D M, BA

BF (Professional)

Economics

Farmelo, Dr G, PhD

Biographer and Historian

Gotham, Mr M

BF (Artist)

Director of Music-Making

Laycock, Mrs P, BA (Hons)

Staff

College Records Officer

McMeekin, Mrs S, BA (Hons)

Staff

Finance Manager

Hurley, Dr J, PhD

Astronomy

Brooke, Dr P, PhD

BF (Archives)

History

Donaghy, Dr A, PhD

BF (Archives)

War Studies

MacLeod, Prof R, PhD

BF (Archives)

HPS

Spohr, Dr A R K, PhD

BF (Archives)

History

Bates, Prof C, PhD

English

Liben-Nowell, Dr D, PhD

Computer Science

Wickramasinghe, Prof C, PhD

Astronomy

Grogan, Dr J, PhD

English

Battaglia-Mayer, Dr A, PhD

Physiology

Chung, Dr D, PhD

Music

Sorenson, Prof G

BF (Møller)

Catherwood, Dr C, PhD

BF (Archives)

Author

Agliardi, Dr E, PhD

Economics

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Environmental Science

Corander, Prof J, PhD

Mathematics

Post-Doctoral By-Fellows Amunts, Dr A, PhD

BF (Post-doctoral) Molecular Biology

Apostolopoulou, Dr E, PhD

BF (Post-doctoral) Geography

Blake, Dr L, MPhil, PhD

BF (Post-doctoral) Psychology

Cai, Dr W, PhD

BF (Post-doctoral) Chem Eng & Biotechnology

Campbell, Dr H, PhD

BF (Post-doctoral) Astronomy

Capron, Dr E, PhD

BF (Post-doctoral) Paleoclimatology

Charteris, Dr C, PhD

BF (Post-doctoral) English

Dearden, Dr L, PhD

BF (Post-doctoral) Biochemistry

de la Roche, Dr M, PhD

BF (Post-doctoral) Medical & Veterinary Sciences

Dutton, Dr S, MA, MNatSci, DPhil

BF (Post-doctoral) Physics

Esconjauregui, Dr S

BF (Post-doctoral) Engineering

Feldman, Dr A, PhD

BF (Post-doctoral) Biological Sciences

Julien, Dr J, PhD

BF (Post-doctoral) Biochemistry

Kolkenbrock, Dr M, PhD

BF (Post-doctoral) German

Majeed, Dr R, PhD

BF (Post-doctoral) Philosophy

Masuda-Nakagowa, Dr L, MA, PhD

BF (Post-doctoral) Genetics

Meyns, Dr C, PhD

BF (Post-doctoral) Philosophy

Mortara, Dr L, PhD

BF (Post-doctoral) Engineering

Slater, Dr B, PhD

BF (Post-doctoral) Earth Sciences

Stroobants, Dr K

BF (Post-doctoral) Chemistry

Thacker, Dr V, PhD

BF (Post-doctoral) Physics

Vecchi, Dr E, PhD

BF (Post-doctoral) Computer Science

Worley, Dr C, PhD

BF (Post-doctoral) Astronomy

Zou, Dr X, PhD

BF (Post-doctoral) Engineering

Rawlinson, Rev Dr J

Chapel Trustees’ Appointee

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Angel, Sally (U79) has been awarded a Peabody Award as producer of the documentary film Night Will Fall Bennet, Fran (U73) has been awarded an OBE for services to Social Science Bertelsen, Rasmus Gjedssø (G02) has been appointed Professor of Northern Studies, Barents Chair in Politics, University of Tromsø-The Arctic University of Norway, November 2014 Bochner, Stephen (By-Fellow 95) has published Slow Boating in Britain: The Voyage of the ‘Alexandra’, 2014 Bristow, Owain (U04) has been appointed Head of Biology, Robert Gordon’s College, August 2015 Campbell, Gordan (U&G87) has been appointed CFO, PragmatIC Printing Ltd, December 2015 Deans, Michael (U65) has been awarded Alexander Von Humboldt Research Award, Germany, 2015 and Fellowship, The Explorers Club, USA, 2015 Science Uncoiled, Melrose Press, 2016 Faul, Anita (U&G95) has been appointed Fellow, Selwyn College Cambridge A Concise Introduction to Numerical Analysis, CRC Press, 2016 Gershon, Peter (U66) has been awarded the FTSE 100, Non-executive Director Award Gillespie, Anthony (G71) has been awarded Fellowsip, Royal Academy of Engineering, 2014 Goodwin, Angus (U06) has been awarded Turner Prize, as part of the group Assemble

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Halligan, Joseph (U06) has been awarded Turner Prize, as part of the group Assemble Harper, Caroline (G81) has been awarded a CBE for services to visually impaired people abroad Hodson, Dave (U79) has published Hopping for Unconsciousness, 2016 Hurst, Laurence (U84) has been awarded Fellowship, Royal Society, 2015 and Fellowship,Academy of Medical Sciences, 2015 Founding Director, Milner Centre for Evolution, University of Bath Keefe, Denis (U76) has been awarded a CMG for services to British foreign policy Shaw, Greg (U85) was ordained Priest in the Church of England at Peterborough Cathedral, July 2013

Stop Press As we were going to print we learnt that David Thouless, former Fellow, is one of three British scientists awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for “theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter”. We also learnt that Oliver Hart, Fellow in Economics at Churchill College from 1975-1981, has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics this year, jointly with Bengt Holsmstrom, for their “contribution to contract theory” in the 1970s and 1980s. These are the 31st and 32nd Nobel prizes awarded to members of the College.

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Condolences The College extends deep sympathies to the families and friends of the following: Mr Alan Mingay (U69) who died on 11 December 2013 Dr George Malachowski (PG77) who died in June 2013 Dr Michael Moles (U&G66) who died on 13 February 2014 Rev Timothy Hall (U70) who died on 31 January 2015 Dr Mary Redmond (former Fellow and DoS in Law) who died on 6 April 2015 Mr Robert Downham (U68) who died on 25 May 2015 Mr Sid Brown (former Chief Maintenance Engineer 62-89) who died on 1 June 2015 Mr Guy Gross (U64) who died on 16 July 2015 Dr Michael M V Zammitt-Tabona who died in August 2015 Professor Ivan Yates (former By-Fellow) who died on 2 August 2015 Professor Chris Marshall (U67) who died on 8 August 2015 Sir David Penry-Davey who died on 10 October 2015 Mr David Barnwell (UG67) who died on 25 October 201 Mr Peter Farquhar (U65) who died on 26 October 2015 Mr Peter Bibby (U68) who died on 2 November 2015 Professor Serge Moscovici (former Overseas Fellow) who died on 15 November 2014 Dr David Asbury (U68) who died on 29 November 2015 Mr John Horan (U68) who died on 29 November 2015 Professor Geoffrey Hawthorn (former Fellow 70-76) who died on 31 December 2015 Professor Leonard Berkowitz (former Overseas Fellow) who died on 3 January 2016

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Mr John Ian Brough (U71) who died on 5 January 2016 Professor S C Bhattcharya (G73) who died on 29 January 2016. Professor John Gagnon (former Overseas Fellow/U72) who died on 11 February 2016 Dr Gordon Henderson Caruthers (By-Fellow 79) who died on 6 March 2016 Professor Jose Ramon Torregrosa (former Overseas Fellow) who died on 16 March 2016 Dr John D Roberts (former Fellow) who died on 21 March 2016 Dr Martin Saxon (U75, PG and former Fellow) who died on 19 April 2016. Mr Adrian Hunter (U63) who died in April 2016

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The Churchill College Association Chair: Ms Rosie Johnston (U73) From the day you join Churchill College as an undergraduate or become a member of the MCR or SCR, you are a member of the Churchill College Association automatically, free and for life.The Association promotes friendship throughout the College across all generations and disciplines, resident and nonresident alike. Please visit: www.chu.cam.ac.uk/alumni/association/ for more information about the Association, and to learn more about our range of benefits. The Association is joining the Archives Centre in developing a new oral history/memory lane project about the College and is looking for interviewers and transcribers. If you would like to join our team, please contact the Chair through the alumni office at alumni@chu.cam.ac.uk. Thank you.

Forthcoming Events Full details of events and how to book can be found online www.chu.cam.ac.uk/alumni/events/ 21 October 2016: Class of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;66 Reunion dinner 15 March 2017: WSC Legators Society Lunch 8 July 2017: Reunion Dinner (1993-1998) 22-24 September 2017: Association Weekend celebrating the Collegeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s founding Master Sir John Cockcroft

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News and Contacts We are always pleased to hear of the achievements of alumni including international and national awards, significant appointments and publications. Details can be given to the College at www.chu.cam.ac.uk/alumni/contact /alumni-news The postal address of the College is: Storey’s Way, Cambridge CB3 0DS. Contact Details Contact details of College staff can be found online or through the Porters’ Lodge: +44 (0)1223 336000

Members’ Benefits DINING PRIVILEGES After becoming eligible to achieve MA status (six years and one term after matriculation), Alumni of the College may dine at High Table, joining current members of the Fellowship.They are entitled to up to four dinners per calendar year at College expense. Following the introduction of a drinks charge to current and former members of the Fellowship at High Table, from January 2014 a nominal charge of £9.00 per head will be applied to all categories of non-resident member wishing to take drinks with their meal.This will provide a pre-dinner drink in the Senior Combination Room (SCR) and two glasses of wine during the meal. Past Fellows and Past Overseas Fellows are eligible for four meals per month and six guests per quarter at College expense. Past By-Fellows are entitled to up to four High Table dinners per calendar year at College expense. For all categories of Past Fellow: wine is not included with your meal. Please see above.

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Dinner is at 7.30 p.m. Members should gather in the SCR from 7.15 p.m. Members should introduce themselves and their guest(s) to the presiding Fellow. Past members can book for High Table online www.chu.cam.ac.uk/alumni/ high-table/ ACCOMMODATION Alumni Alumni are entitled to stay in College guest rooms throughout the year (subject to availability) at their own expense. Alumni may book up to two rooms at a special rate per visit. Additional rooms will then be charged at the commercial rate. Past Fellows and Overseas Fellows As a former Fellow of the College, you may stay in College free of charge on four nights over the academic year (1 October to 30 September), and stay at other times at your own expense (subject to availability). A special rate is available to Past Fellows and Overseas Fellows. Past By-Fellows As a former By-Fellow of the College you may stay in College at your own expense throughout the year (subject to availability). A special rate is available to Past By-Fellows. Bookings Accommodation bookings should be made by contacting the Accommodation Office on +44 (0)1223 336164 or by email: accommodation@chu.cam.ac.uk. Special rates are also available for Churchillians at the Møller Centre; a maximum of five rooms per year can be booked at this rate. Please contact the Møller Centre directly on +44 (0)1223 465500 or email: Moller.Reception@chu.cam.ac.uk.

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Taking the MA and Other Degrees Information about Congregations (dress, procedure, etc.) is sent to members when they qualify for their degree. The College holds a lunch for graduands at College expense on the day of most congregations, and guests may attend at their own expense. Retrospective Admission to MMath and MASt Degrees for Part III Students successfully completing Part III of the Mathematical Tripos in Easter Term 2011 and subsequent years will be admitted to a Master of Advanced Studies degree if they come from outside Cambridge or a BA/MMath if they successfully complete four years’ undergraduate study (including Part III) at Cambridge. The University has also announced that many students who took Part III in previous years will be able to receive these degrees retrospectively. Please check the College website for details.

Weddings and Christenings Alumni are especially welcome to hold their wedding or children’s christenings in the Chapel. Enquiries can be made either to the Chaplain, Rev Dr John Rawlinson, or through the Alumni Relations Office. Fees are payable to defray the costs of weddings in the Chapel, and alumni are entitled to a reduced rate.

Index to the Churchill Review An on-line index to the Review, 1963 on, may be found at: www.chu.cam.ac.uk/about/publications

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