The latest news from Newnham’s Fellows, alumnae, students and staff.
Dorothy Garrod was elected to the Disney Professorship of Archaeology in 1939, nine years before women at Cambridge were admitted to degrees or able to become full members of the University. A new portrait…
How do you know you’ve discovered something, if it’s undetectable to science? Newnham Fellow Dr Tina Potter describes her work as “the biggest experiment in human history, to make discoveries on the tiniest scales.”…
This September, students spoke to alumnae in our annual Telephone Campaign – both an opportunity to share experiences across the generations, and an essential part of our regular fundraising. The phone calls are an…
With the loss of Prof Sucheta Nadkarni, Newnham College has lost a woman of energy, passion and commitment. Hers was a dynamism equally rooted in clear thinking and accurate data, and the result was…
Prof Laura Itzhaki has been named of one of the ‘50 Movers and Shakers in BioBusiness 2019’, Laura is CSO and Founder of PolyProx Therapeutics – a company designing biotherapeutics to destroy faulty proteins…
Dr Alex Morris was a woman of huge generosity of spirit, and a personal commitment to the ethics of economics. Her death has left a deeply-felt gap in Newnham College. Alex was Director of…
What can a funded summer internship result in? For Newnham undergraduate Georgia Yiasoumi, her first conference paper, and for Dr Tim Hearn, support to carry out some crucial preliminary research. Newnham Senior Members Research…
Newnham Research Fellow and alumna, Dr Sakthy Selvakumaran, has been announced as one of the top 100 Most Influential Women in the Engineering Sector. Sakthy Selvakumaran is a Chartered Civil Engineer who has worked…
Library Graduate Trainee Beth Walters explores how Newnham Library is marking Newnham’s Green Week. It is impossible to read, watch or listen to the news today without finding stories about climate change. Climate change…
Newnham College’s Guild of Friends Prizes celebrate the best of College life, through the students who make Newnham special. Students, staff and tutors were all invited to nominate the undergraduates who they felt should…
