A report regarding UK infrastructure’s resilience to infection, co-authored by Clare Hall’s President, Professor Alan Short, has been published by the National Engineering Policy Centre (NEPC).
Looking ahead to winter 2021/22, the Royal Academy of Engineering and its partners in the NEPC were asked by Sir Patrick Vallance, the Government Chief Scientific Adviser, to undertake a rapid review of actions for environmental infection resilience. The resulting report provides an overview of the strategic challenges our society faces, along with guidance on immediate measures that will make...
Read more16 August 2021
Congratulations to Jeffrey P. Bishop, a Life Member of Clare Hall whose collaborative project, Biopolitics After Neuroscience: Morality and the Economy of Virtue (forthcoming from Bloomsbury), recently won a 2021 Expanded Reason Award from the Joseph Ratzinger-Benedict XVI Vatican Foundation.
Jeffrey is Professor of Philosophy and holds the Tenet Endowed Chair in Bioethics at Saint Louis University, Missouri, US. His scholarly work explores the philosophical, historical and political foundations of contemporary scientific theories and practices, and contextualises the truth...
Read more12 August 2021
M. Wesam Al Asali, a Life Member of Clare Hall who received a PhD from the Centre for Natural Material Innovation here at Cambridge, has been offered the Fung Fellowship at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS).
During his Fellowship, Wesam will tackle the theme ‘Sustainable Futures’, working on a project titled ‘Cultures of Making’, investigating the environmental approach behind the scarcity-driven informal and vernacular architecture and agriculture in the Middle East.
On the Princeton Fellowship, Wesam comments:
"I...
09 August 2021
Research from University of Cambridge scientists, including Professor Barbara Sahakian, a Fellow of Clare Hall, demonstrates how the brain chemical dopamine plays a key role in consciousness.
Published in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science, the study illustrates that conscious brain activity seems to be linked to the brain’s 'pleasure chemical' dopamine, and that the use of current and future drugs, which act on dopamine, should help improve our understanding of anaesthesia.
Professor Sahakian comments:
"We are very excited...
05 August 2021
Mohammad Chowdhury, a Life Member who completed an MPhil in the Economics and Politics of Development at Clare Hall in 1990, has written a memoir titled Border Crossings: My Journey as a Western Muslim (Unbound, 2021).
The memoir sees Mohammad describe his experiences as a Western Muslim since the 9/11 terrorist attacks by the Islamic extremist group Al-Qaeda against the United States in 2001. Born in the UK and raised as an observant Muslim with liberal values, Mohammad writes about the cultural isolation he felt as a young man growing up in London as well as in Bangladesh...
Read more03 August 2021
Clare Hall students whose PhDs were approved in the calendar year 2020 are invited to apply for consideration for a Clare Hall Salje Medal.
Two medals are awarded by the College each year to the most outstanding PhD (1) in the Arts and Humanities and (2) in the Sciences. The medals are kindly provided by former Clare Hall President, Professor Ekhard Salje.
If you wish to be considered by the selection committee for this award, please email the following documents to the Tutorial Office via tutorial.office@clarehall....
Read more30 July 2021
Back in March, members of Clare Hall's Allotment Initiative gathered to sow a variety of vegetables in West Court. Fast-forward to July and the team behind the project have harvested a sizeable crop, making a range of nutritious dishes for an inaugural summer allotment meal.
Sarah Gough, a PhD candidate from the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute and co-founder of the project, shares:
"Last night we enjoyed the first of many allotment meals showcasing our first summer harvest. We made dishes from carrot top pesto, courgetti, potato salad, broad bean dip, to pizza...
Read more29 July 2021
Istvan Hargittai and Magdolna Hargittai, Life Members of Clare Hall, have published a book titled Science in London: A Guide to Memorials (Springer Nature, 2021).
The book focuses on the memorials of scientists, explorers, medicine men and women, and inventors found in London, UK. It is the concluding volume of a set of four (with the previous publications covering Budapest, New York, and Moscow).
As the blurb attests, London is a hub of science as the seat of the Royal Society, Royal Institution, Science Museum, British Museum, Natural History Museum, and of great...
Read more27 July 2021
Clare Hall is delighted to be hosting a remote talk, tour and live Q&A on the scientific examination of the Shroud of Turin by Emeritus Fellow, Professor Peter Wadhams, within the University of Cambridge's Alumni Festival 2021.
Professor Wadhams will talk us through the many questions surrounding the Shroud of Turin which have left scientists baffled for decades. Guests will learn about the cutting-edge research methods being pursued to delve further into this artefact, and then enjoy a digital tour of the royal chapel in the stunning Cathedral of Turin where the...
Read more26 July 2021
It is with great sadness that the College announces the death of the Right Reverend Carolyn Tanner Irish, Tenth Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Utah and Honorary Fellow of Clare Hall. Bishop Irish was the daughter of American scholar, industrialist and philanthropist, Obert Clark ‘O.C.’ Tanner, who founded the Tanner Lectures on Human Values in 1978.
Bishop Irish began her higher education at Stanford University, before transferring to the University of Michigan. She graduated with high honours in...
Read more07 July 2021