Pembroke College Cambridge

Good luck to everyone receiving their results today and a huge congratulations if you've discovered you're #GoingToCambridge. We're so excited to welcome new students to Pembroke at the start of term! Meanwhile, here's some of our current students on the day they received their results, and now.
1: Amber is studying Law at Pembroke. She received her results this time last year and was over the moon to find out she was going to Pembroke.
2: Pembroke student Georgie is a veter...inary medicine student heading into her final year.
3. Pembroke Medicine student Isabelle receiving her results a few years ago and now on a recent placement at Great Ormond Street during her clinical practice.
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Congratulations to the entrepreneurial Valencians Saif Ahmad (2013) and Tian Carey (2014), who have reached the semi-final of the Cambridge Postdoc Business Plan Competition. We'll be keeping our fingers crossed for you in the next stages of the competition! http://ow.ly/HQ6z30lpRl8

A recent symposium organised by graduates Ilaria Bernocchi (2015) and Nicolò Morelli (2014) is a perfect example of the benefits of interdisciplinary collaboration. Their symposium, 'Petrarch and Portraiture', brought together scholarsfrom different discplines to explore the importance of Petrarch to literary study, Italian culture, and the history of art.
In this video they discuss why they held the symposium, and how they benefited from the experience. https://youtu.be/CXwyW2RcAh4

Congratulations to Scott, winner of the 'Study Abroad' PKP Photo competition. We're enjoying seeing the PKP summer programme through the eyes of the students.

Today on the Kit Smart blog: Chris writes about his work as a Programme Assistant on the Japanese Summer Programmes at Pembroke: http://ow.ly/lKWE30ll3vc
"I enjoyed the PA experience on both programmes so much in 2017 that I re-applied to come back for more after graduation. And who knows, having had such a great time once again, I might just be able to squeeze another programme (or two) in before starting a graduate scheme!"

College cat Millie was deeply unimpressed by the all-day rain yesterday, and felt it was necessary to shelter under an umbrella despite being indoors.

Sophia Borgeest (2016) has won the 2018 Peter Clarke Prize for Scientific Communication with her essay on the research behind ageing well: http://ow.ly/oGPz30lkOK6

Dr Paul Warde, Fellow in History at Pembroke, has recently published a new book "The Invention of Sustainability". Read more about the book on our website: http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/…/new-book-the -invention-of-susta…/

Today on the Kit Smart blog: Meet the new GP President, Ben Jackson (2012).
"The primary role of the GPC I think is to make the graduate community feel as welcome and as at home here as possible. And then there’s the side of things of representing graduate students’ opinions to both the College and the University. But I think more than anything the role of the committee is to bring graduates together and facilitate the meeting of graduates, and create a friendly atmosphere."
http://ow.ly/QPgO30liC1A

Listen to Neel Mukherjee (1994) discuss his Man Booker Prize nominated novel, The Lives of Others, on this week's edition of BBC Radio 4's Bookclub.

In the latest video in our 'Graduates of Pembroke' series, Eric Rogers (2017) combines the histories of architecture and social reform to explain how we came to have some of the social norms we have today, and how some people are (re)making their own.
Full video available here: https://youtu.be/ABt8FDD3ru0
If you're a current graduate student and would like to be interviewed for this series, please let us know.

"I would never have imagined how much I would grow in the first 21 days of PKP. The classes are rigorous, the workload is intense, and adjusting to life in a different country is always slightly stressful, but the experiences that I have had so far at PKP are ones that I will never forget."
Today on the Kit Smart blog: Pembroke-King's Programme student Kayla tells us about her academic classes so far, over halfway through the six-week programme. http://ow.ly/xm4j30lfExu

Professor Clare Grey spoke to the BBC World Service programme 'Click' yesterday about newly discovered materials that could significant improve battery charging speeds. Professor Grey is a Fellow at Pembroke College and a member of the team that has recently published their research on the new material.
Listen from 8:07: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cswhdm

Congratulations to Surbhi, the winner of the first PKP photo competition of the summer with her wonderful photo of King's College.

Today on the Kit Smart blog: To say that art engages the senses is obvious; to say it engages all of them is less so. Lizzie (2016) and Lorraine (2014) are art historians with a shared fascination about Art and the Senses. Read today's blog or listen to the accompanying Pemcast - Pembroke's three-a-year podcast series - to hear about the seminar series they organised this year. Their explorations have led them to explore digestion and the creative process, womb fumigation in 17th century print, and even what dinosaurs might have smelt like. http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/kit-smarts-blog/ art-and-the-senses/

Mind the nano-gap! Back at the beginning of July Pembroke PhD candidates Shruti (2015) and Anna (2016) showed us around the Cambridge NanoDTC display at The Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition. The display demonstrated a number of ways in which nano-materials could be used to create sensors. https://youtu.be/knBdnWnzN5E

The Pembroke-King's Programme PAs are an essential part of PKP, keeping everything running smoothly and providing a selection of activities to introduce PKP students to our lovely city. We caught up with Magda, Salma, and Mark to ask what PKP is like for them. http://ow.ly/uRaR30l93mt

Thank you to our Library team for another wonderful display, this time marking 150 years since the birth of Gertrude Bell - a traveler, writer, photographer, linguist, diplomat, and spy.

Pembroke is pleased to announce the launch of its new campaign – The Time and The Place – which aims to raise funds for the Mill Lane project and student bursaries. The first thing you can do to help us achieve our goals? Watch and share our campaign video! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZTwmZ0Y1 _g

The waffles are fabulous, and of course it is the best college in Cambridge, but then I'm bias, my daughter is there.

My favorite college with beautiful garden.

Lovely people and lovely surroundings, have really enjoyed my trips down here

Just been back to Pembroke for a fabulous weekend to collect my MA. Food as always superb, gardens looking excellent, staff as welcoming as ever and future plans for the college sound very exciting. Cannot rate Pembroke higher and encourage any student considering applying to do so.

Gorgeous place & lovely friendly people. Very proud of my daughter who is part of this college

Attended William Pitt seminar, followed by the usual extremely good dinner. Very interesting discussion on The Role of Universities in C21 Britain with engaging arguments and claims made especially by, in my view, Prof Helen Small and Lord David Willets. Q&As went overtime, so I clearly wasn't the only one stimulated by the debate. Looking forward to next year.

A beautiful college with caring friendly staff.

Very informative Open Day For prospective students. Wonderful surroundings in spring sunshine.

One of the oldest and smallest colleges in Cambridge. Venture in and you will find yourself in a wonderful courtyard.

It is also probably the one offering the best food, in terms of variety and quality, among all the Cambridge colleges. Definitely worth trying squeeze in the dining room for a quick lunch together with lots of students.

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Great college... If you've got money to burn

Educates people like Ronald Coyne, who burns money in front of poor people.



Condones this behaviour by not expelling him.

The waffles are fabulous, and of course it is the best college in Cambridge, but then I'm bias, my daughter is there.

My favorite college with beautiful garden.

Lovely people and lovely surroundings, have really enjoyed my trips down here

Just been back to Pembroke for a fabulous weekend to collect my MA. Food as always superb, gardens looking excellent, staff as welcoming as ever and future plans for the college sound very exciting. Cannot rate Pembroke higher and encourage any student considering applying to do so.

Gorgeous place & lovely friendly people. Very proud of my daughter who is part of this college

Attended William Pitt seminar, followed by the usual extremely good dinner. Very interesting discussion on The Role of Universities in C21 Britain with engaging arguments and claims made especially by, in my view, Prof Helen Small and Lord David Willets. Q&As went overtime, so I clearly wasn't the only one stimulated by the debate. Looking forward to next year.

A beautiful college with caring friendly staff.

Very informative Open Day For prospective students. Wonderful surroundings in spring sunshine.

One of the oldest and smallest colleges in Cambridge. Venture in and you will find yourself in a wonderful courtyard.

It is also probably the one offering the best food, in terms of variety and quality, among all the Cambridge colleges. Definitely worth trying squeeze in the dining room for a quick lunch together with lots of students.

Like

Great college... If you've got money to burn

Educates people like Ronald Coyne, who burns money in front of poor people.



Condones this behaviour by not expelling him.