The latest issue
Cambridge Alumni Magazine
Lent Term 2021
Features
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Transcribing history
A new transcription project
reveals parallels between the
pandemics of the 21st century
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After 750 years, is the mother of parliaments in need of reform?
A time to reform? CAM asked four experts to give their views on the future.
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Cytosponging
“A bottle brush for the oesophagus” – Professor Rebecca Fitzgerald’s simple yet ingenious invention is set to transform cancer care.
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Public Service. Private Good?
From rank incompetence to corrupt practices, procurement is under scrutiny in all walks of life. What needs to change if we are to get it right?
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Becoming Muslim
What happens to your life when you convert? Professor Esra Özyürek explores religion, culture and identity.
Regulars
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Inbox 92
Read the editor’s letter and all your emails, letters, tweets and posts in response to CAM 91.
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Campendium
Freedom of speech, an unseen archive, and the happy ending effect.
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Loafing about
The Bread Baking Society rose from humble beginnings to become a source of comfort and community – both in person and online.
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Alumni benefits
Update your details to take advantage of a wealth of benefits.
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Science fiction sets the bar high – but we’re getting there
Professor Daping Chu is Nanjing Chair of Technology and Innovation in the Department of Engineering.
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The Cambridge Foundation Year
The need to build new pathways into higher education for those facing exceptional disadvantage has never been so pressing.
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This idea must die: We can’t find new antimicrobials fast enough to make a difference
Dr Anna-Maria Pappa says her new technology will help win the battle against drug-resistant pathogens.
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“Jessye Norman sounds like no one else on recordings – there are few voices as distinctive”
Jennifer Johnston (Caius 1995) can trace the start of her award-winning career back to a chance performance.
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Search it up!
Your directory to alumni life: events, benefits and updates.
Editor’s pick
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“We were a load of 18-year-olds trying to feel our way into social networks.”
For internet sensations Ben and Danielle Marsh (both History, Downing 1995) and their four children lockdown won’t stop the music.
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Have a green flight!
A carbon-neutral economy in 50 years? Maybe. But what if we were to go faster? Professor Rob Miller says that it is time to completely rethink the schedule.
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This idea must die: Paediatrics is about jabs, broken arms and nosebleeds
Professor David Rowitch explains why paediatrics is about lifelong disease prevention and mitigation.
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A Jane Austen Guide to the 21st Century
In 2019, Austen’s writing is even more popular than it was in 1819. But beyond the carriages and costumes, she has far more to say about our digital lives than you might imagine
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A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Douglas Adams at Cambridge
Douglas Adams came up to St John’s in 1971. Seven years later, the first episode of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy aired. As his archive goes on display at St John’s, CAM asks Adams’s Cambridge friends and collaborators about his comic genius.
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Living in the Grad Lane
What attracts the world’s very best grad students to Cambridge? Academic excitement, a global perspective – and outstanding support
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In Vitro
The first Petri dish was put into service in 1887. Today, this most humble of scientific instruments remains at the cutting edge of discovery.
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Frugal Innovation
Professor Jaideep Prabhu, inventor of the electricity-free fridge, says doing more with less makes sense whatever your location.