Cambridge Alumni Magazine
Issue 83 – Lent 2018
Features
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Philanthropy Matters
The campaign for the University and Colleges has passed the £1bn mark. So why does philanthropy matter to Cambridge?
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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.
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The Lost Key
‘From the sublime to the ridiculous’ – Cambridge porters spill the beans
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Smash The Patriarchy
2018 is going to be a big year for feminist thought and action.
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One Heart-Stopping Moment
Heart and lung diseases are the leading causes of premature death worldwide. What can be done? Work at the new Heart and Lung Research Institute hopes to supply some answers
Regulars
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Campendium: Lent Term 2018
Tributes to the late Professor Hawking, a new ice rink, and the complex minds of sheep.
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Breaking the Silence on Sexual Misconduct
Sarah d’Ambrumenil is Head of the Office of Student Conduct, Complaints and Appeals
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‘I ploughed through a lot of Dostoyevsky in the hot strip mill’
Dr Spike Bucklow, Reader in Material Culture at the Hamilton Kerr Institute, reveals the reads which have had the greatest influence on his life
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In Search Of Atlantis
The Cambridge University Underwater Exploration Group positively enjoy being thrown in at the deep end
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‘It is likely that democracy will fail in the 21st century’
When all seems new. we need more history, says Professor David Runciman, Head of the Department of Politics and International Studies and a Fellow of Trinity Hall.
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Professor Dame Ann Dowling: Room F35, Girton
The first female President of the Royal Academy of Engineering discusses space-time, infinity and corridors with third-year mathematician Andrew Pritchard.
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Inbox 83
Read the letter from the Editor for CAM 83 and all your emails, letters, tweets and posts in response to CAM 82
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Community action: ‘I just chat, play games and referee their wrestling matches!’
The Cambridge bubble is a comfortable place. Stepping outside can be hugely rewarding, explain the volunteers of Cambridge Student Community Action
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‘I’m proud to see my second years swagger with confidence – they are the grizzled veterans now’
Dr Holly Krieger is the Corfield Lecturer in Pure Mathematics and a Fellow of Murray Edwards College.
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‘It is the most sumptuous piece of heart-aching music, and I fully intend to have it sung at my funeral’
Comedian Alexander Armstrong (Trinity 1989), presenter of the BBC gameshow Pointless, shares the sounds which shaped his student days at Cambridge.