No 6730
Wednesday 21 February 2024
Vol cliv No 20
pp. 285–292
Appointed as Development Director and elected into a Fellowship in Class A from 14 February 2024:
Kerry Wilson, B.A., Westfield College, University of London
Hughes Hall: Impact Director; salary: highly competitive; closing date: 18 March 2024 at 12 noon; further details: https://www.hughes.cam.ac.uk/about/vacancies/
Lucy Cavendish College: College Assistant Professorships in Mathematics; Economics; Chemistry/Chemical Engineering; and Physics (one in each available); tenure: five years fixed-term from September 2024; salary: £39,775; closing date: 10 March 2024; further details: https://www.lucy.cam.ac.uk/college-community/meet-our-people/join-our-team
This year’s lecture, ‘Repairing the brain in Parkinson’s Disease – the long and winding road’, will be delivered by Professor Roger Barker and Professor Malin Parmar in the Howard Theatre, Downing College, on Tuesday, 27 February 2024 at 6 p.m.; further details: https://www.dow.cam.ac.uk/events/14th-oon-lecture
‘China and the global semiconductor industry’, a virtual roundtable seminar with Dr Douglas B. Fuller (Copenhagen Business School), Dr Mathieu Duchâtel (Institut Montaigne, Paris) and Dr Ming-chin Monique Chu (University of Southampton), will take place on Wednesday, 28 February 2024, from 1 p.m. to 2.30 p.m.; further details: https://www.jesus.cam.ac.uk/events/china-and-global-semiconductor-industry
As part of commemorative events to mark the bicentenary of the death of Lord Byron (1788–1824), Trinity College is offering up to three prizes, worth £250 each, for writing in verse or prose inspired or provoked by Byron; open to all current Cambridge undergraduate and postgraduate students; poems must not be more than 40 lines in total, prose no more than 400 words; closing date: l April 2024 at 12 noon; enter at: https://app.casc.cam.ac.uk/fas_live/trinbyron/; successful applicants will be informed by 12 April 2024 and invited to read their work at the ‘Byron Now’ commemoration on 20 April 2024, in Trinity’s Antechapel, alongside a number of established poets.