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Official account of Queens' College, part of @Cambridge_Uni . President: @elerianm . Founded in 1448 and world famous bridge. For alumni news follow @QueensAlumni

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Queens' College
4 years
We are delighted to announce that Dr Mohamed A. El-Erian @elerianm has been installed as President of Queens' College. The ceremony was only attended by a small number of students and Fellows for obvious reasons, but is available to watch: @Cambridge_Uni
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Today is Queens’ College’s 574th birthday!! #FunFact – The riverside building is the oldest on the River Cam and second oldest in Queens’. We don’t know the actual date as there are no contemporary records, but the first author to ascribe a date (in 1897) assumes 1460 #birthday
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Queens' College
5 years
We are delighted to announce the election of Dr Mohamed A. El-Erian @elerianm as the 42nd President of Queens’ College. He will take up office on 1 October 2020.
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Queens' College
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It is with profound sadness that we heard the news of the death of Her Majesty The Queen today. We join very many millions of others in the UK and across the world in expressing our deep condolences to the Royal Family.
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At the last moment the sun broke through the clouds and shined for our undergraduate matriculation photograph ☀️ Unlike our postgraduate photo taken in the pouring rain on Friday 🌧️ Welcome to Queens' everyone, we're here for you rain or shine! #queenscollege @Cambridge_Uni
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575 today! 🎂 On this day in 1448, the College was founded by Margaret of Anjou. Since then, many thousands of students have passed through the courts, halls and corridors of Queens', and all are a part of our history. Here's to the next 575 years... #Queens575 @Cambridge_Uni
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Congratulations to Her Majesty the Queen on her #PlatinumJubilee and an unprecedented 70 years of service. We are honoured and privileged to have Her Majesty as Patroness of #queenscollegecambridge
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@QueensCam
Queens' College
5 years
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, the Patroness of the College, visited Queens' today. The Patroness was greeted by the President, Lord Eatwell, and the President-elect, Dr Mohamed A. El-Erian, before having lunch with Fellows, students and staff. @elerianm
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Queens' College
6 years
Nothing puts off the punters! #snowday
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Queens' College
7 years
Queens' is proudly flying the flag to mark the start of #LGBT History Month. @Cambridge_Uni #LGBTHM17
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Queens' College
1 year
Happy holidays! We hope everyone travelling is safe and has a nice Winter break ✨
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Queens' College
2 years
What a lovely evening for our Fellows' photograph as we welcome all of our brand new Fellows to Queens' College. We're delighted you've joined us!
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Queens' College
2 years
A beautiful afternoon at Queens'! Thank you to everyone who came along for Jubilee ice creams served by our President @elerianm . Bosa was also thrilled to see you all. #HM70 #PlatinumJubilee
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Queens' College
2 years
Queens' College book of condolence has been placed in the College Chapel for fellows, staff, students and alumni to sign or leave a tribute to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
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Queens' College
2 years
Mohamed El-Erian appears on #BBC2 in a new documentary: 'The Decade the Rich Won'. Experts discuss how #Brexit and the #covid19crisis have created a side effect of rising financial inequality. Watch episode 2 on BBC iPlayer:
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Queens' College
4 years
Some more lovely photos from last night, taken by @acambridgediary . A very special #LightItBlue for #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek , whose theme this year is kindness. Thanks again to all who made it happen: @thecraneevent , @wearepinklamp , @jmpsltd1 , @weareblueshed and @jezo_s .
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Queens' College
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Queens' response to issues with "A" Level grading - updated...
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Queens' College
2 years
🎓 A huge well done to all of our Queens' graduands! Enjoy the rest of the day's celebrations✨ #Graduation #CambridgeAlumni
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Queens' College
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Celebrating equality & diversity @Cambridge_Uni #LGBTHM17 #lgbtq #lgbt
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Queens' College
2 years
Followed by a special guest appearance from the beautiful Bosa
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Queens' College
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We're delighted to share this lovely video clip of our Patroness, Queen Elizabeth II, walking through Old Court and greeting students and staff during Her Majesty's visit to Queens' last Tuesday. #RoyalVisitCambridge
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Queens' College
2 years
Congratulations to our wonderful students who graduated today! It was a beautiful sunny morning and we are so proud of you all 🎓 #graduation @Cambridge_Uni @QueensAlumni
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Queens' College
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Congratulations to our graduands who received their degrees this weekend! 🎓 @Cambridge_Uni @QueensAlumni #graduation
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Queens' College
1 year
Congratulations @NaturalistDara on recieving a BEM in King Charles III's New Year's Honours List! So well deserved 🍃
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Queens' College
2 years
What a lovely day for a #graduation ceremony! Congratulations to all our new graduands 🎓 Read more: #cambridgeuniversity #queenscam
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Queens' College
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We are delighted that Mairi Hurrell, College Nurse and Welfare Adviser for more than 20 years, has been elected to an Honorary Fellowship by the Governing Body of Queens' in recognition of her outstanding service to the College. Read more:
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Queens' College
7 years
@JakeWrightUK - your videos are still one of our greatest resources capturing life @Cambridge_Uni for prospective students @BeCambridge
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Queens' College
3 years
We're delighted to be taking part in the Cambridge Foundation Year, a new programme to reach talented students who have experienced educational disadvantage by offering a new route to undergraduate study at Cambridge. Read more on our website:
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Queens' College
4 years
Happy New Year! A beautiful start to the year in Walnut Tree Court earlier today...
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Queens' College
2 years
As we hurtle towards the start of term, remember our wonderful Porters are here 24/7 to make sure our students have the best Queens' experience possible! Pop into the Porter's Lodge any time for assistance and save their number in case of emergencies!
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"I don't think I can find words that express the size and the scale of the loss that is being felt by the United Kingdom..." Watch Queens' President @elerianm 's full reflection on the legacy of Queen Elizabeth II:
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Queens' College
3 years
Our Congratulations to the Graduands of 2021! We are so proud of all of your achievements! #Cambridge #CambridgeUniversity #Graduation #CambridgeGraduation #QueensCam
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Queens' College
3 years
Queens’ is proud to be flying the transgender flag from the Mathematical Bridge for Transgender Awareness Week.
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Queens' College
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It's not just humans that make the most of the golden hour for photographs... Old Gate is making the most of those sunset rays ☀️ 📷 Celine Duffield
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Queens' College
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Congratulations to all our graduands who received their degrees today 🎓✨ @Cambridge_Uni #Graduation
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@QueensCam
Queens' College
2 years
Good luck to everyone who will hear from @Cambridge_Uni and Queens' today! You should be extremely pleased with your achievements so far no matter the outcome 📚👏 @QAdmissions
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Queens' College
2 years
We are thrilled to see so many of you in person for our first @Cambridge_Uni Open Day! Our students can't wait to show you everything Queens' has to offer. Find us on Silver Street. #QueensCollegeCambridge #OpenDay #CamUni
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Queens' College
4 years
Just in time to catch the last week of LGBT+ History Month, our students have been hard at work decorating the Mathematical Bridge with the rainbow flag! Check it out next time you're passing... #LGBTHM2020
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Queens' College
2 years
The President, @elerianm , is delighted to welcome you to the first-ever #QueensGivingDay where you can make a life-changing difference to current and future generations of Queens' students in the next 36 hours! To participate, visit:
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Queens' College
2 years
Many congrats to our Olympians in Blue, Ruby & Grace, and the whole Cambridge crew who rowed for the victorious Women’s Boat in @theboatrace . Cambridge Women set a record-breaking time of 18:22.8! 👏🏽🙌🏻 #boatrace2022 #girlpower
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Queens' College
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We are saddened to share the news of the death of Queens' College Fellow, Dr Emily Webster. Emily was also a member of @CambridgeLandEc and @cambridgelaw and will be deeply missed by everyone in the Cambridge community.
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Queens' College
7 years
A view of Queens' that never gets old. Photo courtesy of @jeanlucbenazet #happyFriday #MathematicalBridge #RiverCam
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Queens' College
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Another wonderful #graduation day! A sunny and warm photograph followed by our Praelector @RichardRex1961 leading the procession to Senate House. Congratulations all 🎓✨
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Queens' College
4 years
Some frosty scenes by the Mathematical Bridge this morning! ❄️❄️
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Queens' College
2 years
Guess who came to visit Queens’?🤔 #StephenFry pictured with Vita, our fantastic Visitors Liaison Officer, in the Porters’ Lodge on Friday evening. #queenscollegecambridge
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Queens' College
4 years
The College flag is flying at half mast today following last Friday's events. In particular, we extend our deepest sympathies to the family and friends of Saskia Jones (Queens', 2017). Statement from the President:
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Queens' College
3 years
A dusting of snow this morning in Queens'...
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Queens' College
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“I’m delighted and excited by this award, enabling us to develop resources for schools to show pupils how maths can do good in the world.” Congratulations to Prof Julia Gog, winner of the @royalsociety Rosalind Franklin Award and Lecture
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Queens' College
2 years
Congratulations to everyone who graduated on Saturday! 🎓 #cambridgeuniversity #queenscollegecambridge #graduation #cambridgegraduation
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Queens' College
3 years
Great to see our very own Springbok at Friday's Graduation ceremony; very timely with the first Lions' Test #flipvandermerwe
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Queens' College
2 years
We were absolutely delighted to welcome Professor @CassSunstein to Queens’ yesterday to celebrate the opening of the new El-Erian Institute with his fascinating lecture on 'Welfare Now'. @elerianm @LuciaReisch @CambridgeJBS
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Queens' College
2 years
On Thursday the President hosted @stephenfry & Tara Howell at Queens'. After her accident in 2014, Tara found solace in listening to the audio book series of #HarryPotter narrated by Mr Fry. Last week they were invited to meet in person at the College🤗
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Queens' College
4 years
The sun is shining on Queens' (if perhaps only briefly...) as our students start moving back for the new term! It's set to be a busy term too, with access & outreach plans, student activities (sport, music, art, theatre) and alumni events - see for info.
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Queens' College
4 years
"The most glorious fate that any girl could desire". On 5th March, hear Q alumna Sally Dore talk about the portrayal of Newnham and Girton in fiction aimed at teenage girls from 1869-1939 in a talk @theUL as part of #RisingTide #WomenatCambridge Book:
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Queens' College
4 years
A stunning and rare sight for your Friday: the Mathematical Bridge and Cam with not a person in sight. Thanks to Tu Minh Tri for this, a student staying in College due to being unable to return home. Wishing all our followers a happy and healthy weekend. #StayHome #staysafe
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Queens' College
2 years
Frosty mornings at #queenscollegecambridge ❄️
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Queens' College
5 years
Queens' alum and @Gates_Cambridge Scholar Dr Sabrina Anjara met with the President of Indonesia earlier this week to discuss a wide range of topics and how Indonesian academics living abroad can be part of the country's economic development. More here:
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Queens' College
6 years
Applications to Queens' from state-educated students made up 70% of the total this year for the first time, reflecting the fantastic outreach work of @QAdmissions .
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Queens' College
4 years
It was lovely to host a virtual reunion of the first female students of Queens', 40 years on from their matriculation in 1980. The guest of honour was Queens' first female Fellow, Professor Naomi Segal (Hon Fellow), who joined the College in 1979.
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Queens' College
4 years
We are wishing our Patroness, Her Majesty The Queen, a very happy birthday today and are remembering with great fondness her visits to the College, most recently in July 2019. Photographs below are from Her Majesty's visits in 2005 and 2019, the latter credit to Andreas Grieger.
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Queens' College
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A beautiful and sunny morning for our April graduation ceremony ☀️ congratulations to everyone getting their degrees today! #graduation2023 @Cambridge_Uni 📷 @nordincatic and Queens' College
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Queens' College
4 years
A reminder that bookings are open for Catz & Queens' BME Access day, Saturday 14th March. A brilliant opportunity to learn about life at @Cambridge_Uni , meet current students and experience taster sessions. More: @QAdmissions @caths_slo @Catz_Cambridge
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Queens' College
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The President's Annual Fireside Chat is available to view now! 💬 @elerianm speaks to Emily @maitlis (1989, Hon. Fellow) about the future of Queens' and they revisit fond memories including washing machines, payphones and Shakespeare in Cloister Court:
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Queens' College
2 years
We are delighted to officially welcome @CassSunstein to Queens' College as a Distinguished Academic Visitor! Read more:
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Queens' College
2 years
Something exciting is coming! To view the full video for our first ever #QueensGivingDay click here: #queenscollegecambridge
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Queens' College
6 years
Wonderful to see so many proud families in College this morning. Congratulations to all our graduates!
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Queens' College
1 year
Congratulations to Adam Barton on achieving a CSAR PhD Students Award For Applied Research! 👏 These awards recognise outstanding research with real world application. Adam’s work explores the social, cognitive & emotional dynamics of educational change:
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Queens' College
9 years
Rainbow over Queens': the perfect way to welcome back returning students. #Cambridge #storms #rainbow #welcomeback http://t.co/jKKBQSgFvN
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Queens' College
4 years
We were delighted to welcome two new Junior Research Fellows to Queens' yesterday evening in a socially-distanced Chapel ceremony. Congratulations and welcome to Dr Rosa van Hensbergen and Dr @ElsaNoterman ! Read more:
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Queens' College
3 years
Starting today: our first ever Queens' Green Week. Created by a collaboration between MCR and JCR students, this promises to be an exciting week of scientific, artistic, and political engagement with the climate crisis, with talks, challenges and a quiz!
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Queens' College
1 month
Thrilled to welcome all our offer holders to College today to find out more about life at Queens' and @Cambridge_Uni . We hope you all had a fun day and we're looking forward to seeing you again in September!
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Queens' College
7 months
Happy first day of term to all our new UG and PG freshers! The Matriculation photographs have all been taken in beautiful Walnut Tree Court and President @elerianm was thrilled to invite you into the Lodge to meet you all in person. Welcome to Cambridge and @Cambridge_Uni 🙌
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Queens' College
2 years
Proudly upholding the College tradition of ice creams outside the Senate House on graduation day #cambridgegraduation
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Queens' College
2 years
We're so happy to begin welcoming all our new students to #Queens '! There's lots going on throughout the next couple of weeks so be sure to make the most of all the tours and events we have lined up for you. Welcome to @Cambridge_Uni
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Queens' College
3 years
🎉Graham Denyer Willis, Director of studies and Chris Rokos Fellow in Geography, has won a Philip Leverhulme prize for his exceptional research on 'everyday patterns of political order with attention to policing and inequality, via ethnography and a focus on Brazil'.
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The Leverhulme Trust
3 years
The Trust is delighted to announce the winners of the 2021 Philip Leverhulme Prizes. Thirty exceptional researchers awarded in these areas: Classics; Earth Sciences; Physics; Politics and International Relations; Psychology; Visual and Performing Arts.
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Queens' College
3 years
Did you know? Today, 15th April, is the anniversary of the College's foundation! This means that we are moving towards celebrating the #Queens575 anniversary in 2023!🎉 For more information about the foundation of Queens' College, take a look here:
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Queens' College
5 years
Today's the day! Set up for the biennial Queens' May Ball is looking very exciting...
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Queens' College
6 years
Beautiful tribute to Professor #StephenHawking from @CaiusCollege . A lovely reflection on an extraordinary life.
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Queens' College
7 years
The Round is repaired! #riverbankintact
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Queens' College
4 years
From the President: "I am delighted to announce that the target of £2.5 million needed to fund The John Eatwell Fellowship has been met. In these troubled times the generosity of members and friends of the College is extraordinary. Thank you." More:
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Queens' College
4 years
Following the recent change of policy, Queens' confirms that it will be honouring the offers of all whose Centre Assessment Grades meet the requirements of their original offer and who meet their offer after an appeal. Our updated statement:
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Queens' College
6 years
It's almost as though the weather and the flowers know we have an Open Day today. Welcome, prospective students!
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Queens' College
6 years
We're excited, and a bit nervous, to watch tonight's Contagion, at 9pm on BBC1. Queens' Fellow Julia Gog, Prof. of Mathematical Biology, provided the research to demonstrate the potential spread of a flu pandemic. The College bar will host a screening.
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Queens' College
3 years
Feeling autumnal walking around the College grounds 🍂🍁 #queenscollegecambridge #autumnleaves
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Queens' College
2 years
More photos from last night’s launch event of the El-Erian Institute with Professor @CassSunstein , Dr @elerianm & Professor @LuciaReisch @CambridgeJBS
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Queens' College
4 years
Congratulations to our 2020 graduates, many of whom have graduated in absence over the last few weeks, with the last in absence admission taking place today! Virtual celebrations to follow (details by email), but for now, some photos... More:
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Queens' College
1 year
El-Erian Institute event: Friday 9 December, "Noise and Bias" keynote address by Professor Cass R Sunstein, Harvard Law School and Distinguished Academic Visitor of Queens' College. Open to University of Cambridge members. Register to attend:
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Queens' College
4 years
Good news from Queens' today...congratulations Professor Julia Gog OBE....
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Queens' College
4 years
It's our birthday! #OnThisDay in 1448, the Charter of Queen Margaret of Anjou was granted to found the College and Queen Margaret herself was due to lay the foundation stone. She may have decided not to travel due to an outbreak of plague. More: #572today
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Queens' College
6 years
Thanks to our amazing College Gardeners for these beautiful autumn colours!
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Queens' College
4 years
Last Friday, a new inscription in honour of our outgoing President Lord Eatwell was unveiled, one of many ways the College is recognising Lord Eatwell's contribution to Queens' over his 23-year Presidency and a personal gesture of thanks from the Fellows.
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Queens' College
5 years
A lovely photograph of the Queens' May Ball last Tuesday night. Thanks very much @camdiary !
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Sir Cam’s Cambridge Diary
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Cambridge May Balls 2019: It’s not often you see the Mathematical Bridge at Queens’ College looking like this or the Brutalism of Cripps Court offset by some colour and fun.
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Queens' College
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Fantastic to see Queens' graduation ceremonies taking place again. Delayed, but still much enjoyed by all! Friday 10 Sept and another tomorrow, Friday 17 Sept.
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Queens' College
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⏰ A reminder that we are welcoming applications for the Alexander Crummell Scholarships for postgraduate courses until May 31st 2021 for October 2021 entry ⏰ More info: Further particulars:
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Queens' College
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A very warm welcome also to our graduate freshers, who have been arriving in Queens' over the last couple of days. They had a very scenic wait for their registration earlier...
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Queens' College
5 years
Many congratulations to Q-PDRA @Mona_Jebril , who has been listed for the Cambridge Vice-Chancellor's Award for Research and Impact Engagement 2019, for her research on higher education in Gaza and commitment to sharing it with a wide audience and through a variety of channels.
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