Cambridge Alumni Magazine
Issue 88 — Michaelmas Term 2019
Features
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Privacy. Democracy. Freedom of speech. Anonymity. Access
Modern technology – from data to social media – is forcing human rights into the spotlight
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The Inflamed Mind
It’s linked to obesity, diabetes and depression, but its full action and impact are yet to be fully understood
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How to be Modern
Why do students want to decolonise their curricula, and what does it have to do with the rest of us?
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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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Absolute Zero
Dr Emily Shuckburgh, Director of Cambridge Zero, is harnessing Cambridge expertise to tackle the climate emergency
Regulars
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The unmarried mothers of the bastardy books
Dr Samantha Williams is University Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Continuing Education and a Fellow of Girton.
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Campendium: Michaelmas Term 2019
Nobel Prizes for Cambridge, hearing things individually, and the Stormzy effect.
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Inbox 88
Read the letter from the Editor for CAM 88 and all your emails, letters, tweets and posts in response to CAM 87
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Scholarships create a better future for all
Matt Mahmoudi on the academic and financial support that, he says, has changed his life forever
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Explaining the Student Support Initiative
We are putting student support at the top of our agenda with an ambitious new initiative, writes Professor Stephen J Toope, Vice-Chancellor, University of Cambridge
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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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When researchers discovered an apparently medieval ‘table top’, the hunt was on to find out more.
Professor Liba Taub examines an equatorium held at the Whipple Museum of the History of Science.
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Educate. Empower. Entertain.
The Cambridge University African Caribbean Society is no standard society – it’s a celebration, a safe space and a campaign.
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Lady Hale: Room C2, Girton
Brenda Hale DBE (Girton 1963) and third-year Mathematician Maisie Muir discuss Yorkshire roots and the challenge of being outnumbered.