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Cambridge Alumni Magazine
Issue 99 - Easter Term
Features
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Best in class
Everyone’s path to Cambridge is different and, as a stepping stone to study, the Foundation Year programme is giving outstanding students a chance they might not have expected.
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A Vice-Chancellor’s life
As new Vice-Chancellor Professor Deborah Prentice takes up the reins, we ask: what does it really take to lead one of the greatest universities in the world?
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Let there be light
Gallium nitride has the potential to transform energy use through its incredible efficiency, and Professor Rachel Oliver has dedicated her life to the cause.
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All in the best possible taste?
Modern comedy might tussle with what is and isn’t appropriate, but it’s got nothing on the 18th-century Great Laughter Debate.
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CAM presents: Emergency Education on Ireland
To mark the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, CAM asks leading Cambridge experts to give their views on the issues that matter.
Regulars
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Inbox: CAM 99
Read the editor’s letter and all your emails, letters, tweets and posts in response to CAM 98.
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Campendium: Easter Term 2023
Super memorisers, sequencing Beethoven’s DNA and a visit from The King.
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Okechukwu Nzelu: Great Hall, Girton
The award-winning writer Okechukwu Nzelu meets Aiseosa Eweka-Okera.
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It’s in the water: how to solve our planet’s biggest challenges
Professor Angelos Michaelides is on a quest to understand water in all its forms.
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Yma o Hyd!
They’re still here: the Cambridge Welsh Society has been offering a taste of home for exiles – and others – since 1887.
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“Not everyone is going to like you – and that’s fine. In fact: “Embrace it!”
An alumni life: Maud Millar (Clare 2007) swaps opera for operating systems to launch a revision app for students.
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This idea must die: “Learning styles determine outcomes”
Professor Duncan Astle says an over-reliance on adapting teaching methods to specific individuals is misplaced.
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“The music was a visceral scream of being alive”
Bassoonist Rachel Gough (King’s 1984) discovered a deep love for music at King’s, even if it meant the odd all-nighter.
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Search it up!
Your directory to alumni life: events, benefits and updates.
Editor’s pick
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Sun King
What happens when an emperor decides to change the religion of an entire people? Forget the Tudors. This is reformation – and counter-reformation – ancient Egyptian style.
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Reasons to feel hopeful
Living through dark times can be challenging. It takes resilience, courage and, above all, hope. But what is hope exactly? CAM investigates.
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‘The candles were lit, the Benjamin West painting was radiating, and I just thought ‘Wow!’’
Vice-Chancellor, Professor Stephen J Toope (Trinity 1983), shares the sounds which shaped his student days at Cambridge.
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Bop On
It is the quintessential College entertainment. From classic school disco at Homerton to dubstep at Clare Cellars, the bop has it all: music, dancing, friends and, if you’re lucky, a somewhat sticky carpet