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Founded in 1882, Selwyn College is now at the heart of the modern University of Cambridge.
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Andrew Barnes (SE 1978) and Charlotte Lockhart joined Selwyn as Fellow Benefactors on 22 October 2026.
Their £1 million gift will help renovate two student houses on West Road, to be named Barnes Lockhart House.
More than 300 alumni and friends have given to the renovation, raising £2.5 million towards the £4 million cost. Thank you to Andrew, Charlotte and everyone who has made it possible.
#selwyncollege #giving #cambridge #cambridgeuniversity
27 Oct 2026
Congratulations to one of our Fellows, Dr Carrie Soderman, who has been named the Mineral Deposits Studies Group’s Early Career Researcher Distinguished Lecturer for 2027.
The award funds a year of talks at universities across the UK, beginning with a keynote at the group’s conference in Belfast in January.
Carrie, a postdoctoral research associate in Earth Sciences, studies how metals needed for green technologies become concentrated in rocks.
01 Jan 1970
Skies were moody but faces were full of sunny smiles as our latest postgraduates received their degrees on 23 October.
Led by our head porter Lee Scott and acting praelector Dr David Smith, they made their way to Senate House in the drizzle with hoods and umbrellas up, and nothing could dampen the spirit of the occasion.
Families and friends joined in the celebrations.
Congratulations, everyone
24 Oct 2026
Congratulations to Grace Grandfield (SE 2023), who graduated in biological anthropology and archaeology this summer, on winning the Val Whittaker Memorial Prize.
Grace studied a stone mask held by the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, made in the style of Teotihuacan in ancient Mexico and more than 1,600 years old. Little is known about it, but Grace argues it may have been a mock trophy head, marking both a sense of belonging and personal achievement in war.
In July 2025 Grace was also part of the team that uncovered a ninth-century mass grave at Wandlebury Country Park, as seen on BBC’s Digging for Britain. We also featured the discovery in our magazine.
The prize is awarded by the Cambridge Archaeology Field Group to encourage people of all ages who are studying archaeology.
Picture: Grace receives the prize from Stephen Macaulay, President of the Cambridge Archaeology Field Group. Image courtesy of the Field Group.
#Archaeology #Cambridge #Teotihuacan #Wandlebury #SelwynCollege
06 Nov 2026
Saturday 7th November is the day for @selwyn1882 's Celebrating 50 Forum. Fifty years since women were admitted to the college as students and Fellows, so it's time for a party. Come along and hear from some of our amazing alumnae. Swipe through to see the programme. @selwynjcr.official @selwyn.mcr
06 Nov 2026
Erin Charles has had a busy start at Selwyn. Since joining as our new Development Director, she has been meeting alumni, Fellows and staff, and says she has loved getting to know our close-knit and warm community.
A highlight so far was the admission of Andrew Barnes and Charlotte Lockhart as Fellow Benefactors in October, in recognition of their gift to Ann’s Court North. More than 300 other alumni and friends have also given to the project.
Link in our bio.
#SelwynCollege #Cambridge
05 Nov 2026
Our Celebrating 50 Forum on Saturday 7 November is a key event as we mark 50 years of co-education this year. Speakers who studied here between 1976 and 2018 are coming back to talk about their careers in academia, sport, law, policy, the arts and business.
The event starts at 1.45pm. There will be time for your questions, then networking drinks at the end of the afternoon where you can talk to speakers one to one. Open to all students, alumni, Fellows and staff.
Book via the link in our bio.
#Selwyn50 #selwyncollege
30 Oct 2026
Selwyn alumnus Andrew Barnes and Charlotte Lockhart were admitted as Fellow Benefactors on 22 October.
Their £1 million gift will help renovate two student houses, which will be named Barnes Lockhart House.
Pictured l-r Acting praelector Dr David Smith, Charlotte Lockhart, Andrew Barnes and the Master, Suzanne Raine.
Link in our bio.
#giving #selwyncollege #cambridge
22 Oct 2026
New Fellow Prof Jo Jones joins us as a Director of Studies in Clinical Medicine. A consultant neurologist at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, she specialises in multiple sclerosis (MS) and runs a lab studying how the immune system affects the brain and nervous system.
Her PhD looked at Campath-1H, a Cambridge-developed MS treatment now used in clinics. “Seeing patients come back to clinic whose relapses had been switched off, who were doing really well, was incredibly exciting.”
The first in her family to go to university, Jo was drawn to Selwyn by its welcome, its academic focus and the chance to mentor students.
Find out more via the link in our bio.
#SelwynCollege #Cambridge #Neurology #MultipleSclerosis #Medicine
21 Oct 2026
Did you know the Virginia creeper on the walls of @Selwyn1882's Old Court can climb over 12 metres high? 🍁
The College's gardeners keep the foliage trimmed so students can still enjoy the view from their windows!
📸 Lloyd Mann
#CambridgeUniversity #Cambridge #Autumn #Fall
01 Jan 1970
Jeffrey Tse has joined Selwyn as the Abdey Isaac Newton Trust Academic Career Development Fellow in Economics, a new three-year post shared with the Faculty of Economics.
Jeffrey works on causal inference: how to tell whether one thing really causes another when you can’t run an experiment.
On what drew him to maths: “I love the pursuit of truth. We’re not inventing; we’re discovering the order and beauty in creation.”
The post is funded by Selwyn benefactor Julian Abdey and the Isaac Newton Trust.
Full profile via the link to Welcoming our new Fellows in our bio.
#SelwynCollege #Cambridge #Economics #NewFellows
16 Oct 2026
A year of celebration has begun to mark 50 years since the first women arrived and Selwyn became co-educational.
Celebrating 50 will run across the academic year, with talks, music, exhibitions from our archive and a preaching series in Chapel.
Alumni from the first cohort have been sharing their memories: an offer letter that came by Sunday post, pyjama parties in Cripps Court and breakfast on its gravel roof. Some also recall the bullying and misogyny the first women faced, and overcame.
Link in our bio for more.
Have a memory or photograph to add? Email archives at sel.cam.ac.uk
Pictures: Breakfast at Cripps Court donated by Helen Metcalf (SE 1978) and Graduation Day Sarah Bourne (SE 1976)
#SelwynCollege #SelwynCelebrating50 #Cambridge #CambridgeUniversity #History #Coeducation
15 Oct 2026
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