The second 'Clare Hall Inspires' personal and professional development workshop for students and postdocs was co-organised by Dr Keri Wong (Clare Hall Postdoc Committee), Mr Tim Coorens (the GSB) and Ms Catherine Wise from the Development Office. This one-day workshop, open to all College members, was held in the Richard Eden Suite at West Court. The key aim of the workshop is to encourage students and postdocs to think flexibly about various career paths and to utilise the many benefits of their Clare Hall membership.
Our programme this year was even better than last year....
Read more11 June 2018
In May we held the fifth in the series of 3 Slide Talks. The three engaging talks from different disciplines provided much food for thought.
The first talk was given by Dr Robert Beyer from the Department of Zoology. Robert, who has a background in maths, presented current collaborative research on palm oil production. Oil palm is a highly contested crop linked with environmental destruction. While environmental NGOs and others have called for boycotts of products containing palm oil, the research done by Robert and his collaborators show that the ‘world’s most hated crop...
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Clare Hall Life Member Niccolo Guicciardini has been awarded the Francis Bacon Award in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, awarded by the California Institute of Technology.
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Heidelberg University has selected Nina Voigt for the 2018 Cambridge summer programme. She is pursuing her graduate studies in English literature, linguistics, and cultural studies. Cambridge University, and Clare Hall implicitly, will be represented by Yi Zhu, a first-year PhD student in Linguistics based at the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics.
08 June 2018
Samsung have announced plans to open a new research lab in Cambridge, confirming the city’s reputation as one of the world’s foremost hubs for artificial intelligence research and development.
Read more24 May 2018
A lively group of Clare Hall Fellows and students got together for a superb dinner in the Richard Eden Room on Friday, 4 May 2018. The food was excellent and we enjoyed many interesting conversations.
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A small but sweet Blues celebration took place in the Clare Hall Common Room, on Friday, 20 April 2018.
Read more26 April 2018
The Anne Frank Center, based in New York, has named Clare Hall Life Member Jud Newborn, this year's recipient of their Spirit of Anne Frank Human Writes Award.
Read more23 April 2018
Toru Yamamori, a Life Member and former Visiting Fellow, has been awarded the 2017 K W Kapp prize from the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy for his paper 'The concept of need in Adam Smith'.
Read more23 April 2018
A Clare Hall MPhil student has been chosen as one of the 90 scholars awarded the Gates Cambridge Scholarship for 2018. Dr Warren Pan will be coming to Clare Hall to study an MPhil in Medical Science (Clinical Biochemistry).
Read more23 April 2018