Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
…Recommended Reading for AMES? The following are the preparatory reading links for each subject area: Eastern Asian Studies https://www.ames.cam.ac.uk/preparatory-reading-chinese https://www.ames.cam.ac.uk/preparatory-reading-japanese Middle Eastern Studies https://www.ames.cam.ac.uk/preparatory-reading-arabic https://www.ames.cam.ac.uk/preparatory-reading-persian https://www.ames.cam.ac.uk/preparatory-reading-hebrew Back to course list…
Engineering
…choose to specialise into a professional engineering area, taking core modules in Mechanical, Civil and Structural, Energy, Aerospace, Electrical and Electronic, Information and Computing, Electrical and Information, Instrumentation and Control…
Will YOU change the World? A one-day workshop on womenโs politics and organising
…Women’s Institute, founded in 2009, with the mission of ‘Inspiring women’ forging friendships and sparking passions….& more TBC. PLUS tours of Newnham Library’s special collections. Will YOU change the World?…
Newnham Collegeโs history and the legacies of enslavement
…foundation, there are links between the institution and the Atlantic slave trade and potentially to enslavement elsewhere such as India. This would be a fruitful subject for further research. The…
Wicked Problems in a Complex World: Climate Change with Sian Kevill
The second installment in our ‘Wicked Problems in a Complex World’ series will see former BBC World News director and now documentary producer, Sian Kevill (NC 1979), tackling the ‘Wicked…
Postgraduate focus: Tackling big world challenges
…help each other out.’ Human-environment relations Sally Montgomery from Australia spent over a year living on Lord Howe Island for her Social Anthropology PhD studying human–environment relations on this World…
Alumna announced as new president of organisation which supports women scientists in the developing world
A Newnhamite who champions the cause of female scientists around the world has been named as the president of an organisation which supports and unites women. Professor Jennifer Thomson (NC…
First woman to conduct Last Night of the Proms becomes Honorary Fellow
One of the world’s most eminent conductors has been elected as an Honorary Fellow of Newnham College to acknowledge the exceptional contribution she has made to music. Marin Alsop, an…
Professor Helen Firth
…of Medical Sciences. Since 2010 Professor Firth has been Clinical Lead for the Deciphering Developmental Disorders study (DDD study) (http://www.ddduk.org) one of the world’s largest nationwide, genome-wide sequencing projects in…
History and Modern Languages
…Level) German (from scratch or post-A Level) Spanish (from scratch or post-A Level) Italian (from scratch or post-A Level) Portuguese (from scratch) Russian (from scratch or post-A Level) Both faculties…