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Congratulations, Zoubin, the pleasure is all ours
Delighted to have been elected an Honorary Fellow of St John's College Cambridge! @stjohnscam joh.cam.ac.uk/about-us/news-…
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Were you or someone you know the first generation in the family to go to university? The John Crook Scholarship at St John's offers the chance to study @Cambridge_Uni for two further years. Apply by 6pm BST on 15 October 2025 via @ucas_online Info👇 joh.cam.ac.uk/apply/undergra…
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Professor Helen McCarthy @HistorianHelen, a Fellow of St John's, delves into the @MassObsArchive to explore why the Women Against State Pension Inequality (WASPI) campaign has not rallied a mass movement: politicalquarterly.org.uk/bl…
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Congratulations to @Virgil__Andrei, St John's Research Fellow, who led the team of scientists that attached tiny copper 'nano-flowers' to an artificial leaf to produce clean fuels and chemicals - the backbone of modern energy and manufacturing 👏☀️🍃🌻 joh.cam.ac.uk/tiny-copper-fl…

Thrilled that our study on #perovskite-driven solar #hydrocarbon synthesis is now out in @NatureCatalysis! 🎉 Very grateful to @yanggroupucb and Winton-@KavliENSI Exchange Programme for all support! nature.com/articles/s41929-0… @UCB_Chemistry @BerkeleyLab @ChemCambridge @stjohnscam
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St John's PhD engineer Emma Houiellebecq and our alumni Alex Vail, a wildlife cameraman, and journalist and filmmaker Emily Kassie have been awarded @Gates_Cambridge Impact Prizes for improving lives across the world 👏 joh.cam.ac.uk/engineer-wildl…
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A renowned Hebrew and Bible scholar and former Dean of Chapel of St John's, once described as 'the best preacher in England', has died at 87. The Rev’d Dr Andrew Macintosh, a Life Fellow at St John’s, died on 5 December. Full tribute: joh.cam.ac.uk/college-rememb…
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A pole-vaulting architect and an engineer who set up an orchestra are among the winners of prestigious 2024 Larmor Awards for their achievements as undergraduates at St John’s 🏆👏 joh.cam.ac.uk/team-gb-pole-v… 📸Nordin Ćatić
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Congratulations to our Research Fellow Dr Andrea Luppi @loopyluppi, who has won a global prize for young scientists for his research on how different parts of the brain work together. He was awarded the 2024 @Usern_net Prize in Formal Sciences 👏🏆🎖️ joh.cam.ac.uk/international-…
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Huge congratulations to Vona Groarke, our Writer in Residence👏📚 joh.cam.ac.uk/writer-residen…

Congratulations to Vona Groarke who has been awarded the prestigious 2024 Royal Irish Academy Michel Déon prize for non-fiction for her book, 'Hereafter: The Telling Life of Ellen O'Hara', published by @NYUpress The prize, sponsored by @dfatirl, was presented by @RIAdawson President, Pat Guiry, at a ceremony on Wednesday night which also featured Académie Française Michel Déon Prize winner, Pierre Adrian, in conversation with Professor Clíona Ní Ríordáin.
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“Colour was perceived as a potent power that shaped, as well as expressed, the soul.” Cultural historian Prof Ulinka Rublack, Fellow of St John's, has uncovered a revolution in clothing dyes during the Renaissance, in a major book out today: joh.cam.ac.uk/cultural-histo…
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St John's College, Cambridge retweeted
The Matriculation Service is always a special occasion in the Chapel. 12 new members joined the Choir, singing at the first service of the academic year as @stjohnscam welcomed new students. We warmly invite you to join us in the Chapel again soon. 📷Nordin Ćatić
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Northern Lights making the start of Michaelmas Term even more magical than usual. #thisisjohns #northernlights #Auroraborealis 📸 Florrie Clark
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St John's College, Cambridge retweeted
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The Faculty's Sir Partha Dasgupta will be speaking at St John's Climate Crisis Lecture - free tickets are available:
Free tickets are available for the first St John’s Climate Crisis Lecture on 21 October being given by Prof Sir Partha Dasgupta, distinguished economist @CamEcon, author of the landmark Dasgupta Review on biodiversity, and College Fellow 👇 joh.cam.ac.uk/climate-crisis…
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Free tickets are available for the first St John’s Climate Crisis Lecture on 21 October being given by Prof Sir Partha Dasgupta, distinguished economist @CamEcon, author of the landmark Dasgupta Review on biodiversity, and College Fellow 👇 joh.cam.ac.uk/climate-crisis…
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Congratulations to everyone getting their A-Level results today! We can't wait to welcome our new @Cambridge_Uni students in the new term. Do tag us if you coming to St John's👏 #alevels2024 #goingtocambridge
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From Nobel Prize-winners to a Bletchley Park code-breaker, our Research Fellowships open doors to rising stars. Applications are now open for our 2025 Research Fellowship awards, giving early-career academics the chance to join our community 👇 joh.cam.ac.uk/st-johns-colle…
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Sixth-formers from 45 schools and colleges enjoyed a taste of life and study at @Cambridge_Uni in a free residential Natural Sciences course at St John’s. Our academics held taster sessions on topics such as Physics, Cell Biology and Earth Sciences 👇 joh.cam.ac.uk/free-residenti…
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Congratulations to our PhD student Liam who is heading to the other Cambridge, @Harvard, as a Visiting Fellow. #thisisjohns
Keeping this under wraps since January has been tough, but today it was announced that I've been awarded a Kennedy Scholarship! I'll be a Visiting Fellow at Harvard in 2024-25. I'm deeply grateful to @KennedyScholars for this incredible opportunity. linkedin.com/posts/kennedy-m…
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