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  • Interview: A Gentleman of Neuroscience
    14/06/2013
    Professor Eng-Ang Ling (1966) talks to The Straits Times (Singapore) about life as a foreign student at Clare College in the 1960s and his 40 year career as a 'gentleman of the neurosciences'. 


  • New Photos: London Drinks
    14/06/2013
    The latest London Drinks event for Clare alumni and their guests took place on Thursday 13 June at the Old Bank of England pub, Fleet Street. View photos taken throughout the evening here...


  • Dr Kirsty Hughes awarded the Wedderburn Prize
    10/06/2013
    Congratulations go to Dr Kirsty Hughes who has been awarded the Wedderburn Prize (jointly with Jo Braithwaite, LSE), awarded by the Modern Law Review For her article "A behavioural understanding of privacy and its implications for privacy law" M.L.R. 2012, 75(5), 806-836.


  • Listen out for Cordelia Williams!
    10/06/2013
    Cordelia Williams (2006) is already recognised as a star of the international piano scene. She has recently recorded Schubert’s complete Impromptus which will be available to buy in mid-July…


  • Get Off My Badger: Attenborough's artful protest
    7/06/2013
    Along with Queen guitarist Brian May and Slash, Sir David Attenborough (1951, Hon Fellow) has teamed up with musical super-group Artful Badger and Friends to create a musical protest against the government's badger culls this summer. 


  • Huppert calls for increased science funding
    6/06/2013
    Dr Julian Huppert MP (Fellow) has called on the government to commit to increasing science and research funding above the rate of inflation each year, for the next 15 years.  




  • Guy Pinfield: Hero of the Easter Uprising
    4/06/2013
    The tale of alumnus Guy Pinfield (circa 1913) is brought to our consciousness in the pages of ‘The Final Whistle’ by Stephen Cooper. The book follows the story of fifteen men killed in the Great War who all played rugby for a London club… 


  • Henry VII: Winter King
    3/06/2013
    Don’t miss alum Thomas Penn presenting BBC2’s ‘Henry VII: Winter King’. In this fascinating insight into Henry VII Thomas reveals the ruthless tactics the king used in battle, and ultimately to seize the throne... 


  • Clare members: Take a punt!
    27/05/2013
    We are pleased to announce a new partnership between Clare College and the award-winning Granta Boat and Punt Company, entitling all members and alumni to a 15% discount on all punt and canoe rentals and tours.


  • A song of Venice: Clare Choir at Spitalfields 2013
    20/05/2013
    Clare Choir will once again take part in the annual Spitalfields Music festival this summer, joining together with The Royal Academy of Music Brass Ensemble for a celebration of Venetian and English art and music. 


  • Clare woman elected President of CUWBC
    17/05/2013
    Clare graduate student Esther Momcilovic (PhD History & Philosophy of Science) was elected President of Cambridge University Women's Boat Club this week. Many congratulations! 


  • Clare Through Time: Raymond and Agnes
    1/05/2013
    This month’s ‘Clare Through Time’ looks at the May 1966 production of the opera Raymond and Agnes performed at the Cambridge Arts Theatre...


  • Clare Annual Fund 2013: A record-breaking year!
    29/04/2013
    On behalf of the Master and the entire Clare community, we would like say a heartfelt "Thank You!" to all our alumni who have given or pledged a donation to this year's Annual Fund Campaign. Together you have raised a fantastic £370,000! 


  • 'The Secret of Life!': 60th Anniversary
    26/04/2013
    Dr James Watson (1951, Hon Fellow) returned to Cambridge on Thursday 25 April to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the publication of a paper by himself and Francis Crick, outlining their discovery of DNA. 


  • 2013 Alumnus of the Year
    24/04/2013

    Clare’s Alumnus of the Year 2013, Jon Lane OBE, will be coming to speak at College next Thursday, 2 May, hosted by the Master.



  • Meet the 2013 Telephone Campaign Callers!
    12/04/2013

    Our 2013 Telephone Campaign is well and truly underway! We have a fantastic team of callers this year who have been busy calling hundreds of alumni in the past week; click the link to meet them!



  • Professor Philip Ford 1949 - 2013
    10/04/2013

    It is with great sadness that we report the death of MML Director of Studies, Professor Philip Ford. Philip passed away in the early hours on Monday 8 April, with his family beside him. He had been DoS for MML at Clare since the early 1980's, and was a much loved and respected man. 



  • Attenborough launches Cambridge conservation hub
    5/04/2013
    Sir David Attenborough (1945, Hon Fellow) spoke at the launch of the Cambridge Conservation Campus on Tuesday 2 April, declaring the initiative "crucially important" to the protection of the natural world in the future. 


  • Clare through time: Walking over thither
    3/04/2013

    One of Clare’s most notable 17th Century alumni is John Moore who became Bishop of Norwich and Bishop of Ely and later ‘visitor’ to Clare. Evidence of Moore carrying out his visitorial duties can be seen in the archives through the expenses of his first visitation to the College in 1708.



  • Bach St. John Passion
    8/03/2013

    The Choir join forces with Clare Baroque in a performance of J. S. Bach's St John Passion in aid of Turtle Song.



  • Clare in Oxford walk around Ewelme
    2/03/2013

    The Clare in Oxford walk around Ewelme on Saturday 23rd February was the ninth such venture for Clare alumni and their families living in the Oxford area since the inaugural walk three years ago.



  • Calling all alumni golfers
    26/02/2013

    We are looking for keen alumni golfers of all ages and standards to play against Magdalen College Oxford’s alumni golf club in September…



  • Clare Music: Concert performance of Bach's 'St John Passion'
    21/01/2013
    The Chapel Choir, together with celebrated classical musicians Nicholas Mulroy (1995) and Margaret Faultless (1980), will give a concert performance of J. S. Bach’s St John Passion in the College Hall, on Tuesday 12 March. Tickets are on sale now.


  • Dr Yvonne Barbara Perret Distinguished Lecture
    23/10/2012
    Martin Bean
    Watch the inaugural Dr Yvonne Barbara Perret Distinguished Lecture given by The Vice-Chancellor of The Open University, Martin Bean: 'Looking at Education and the World in New Ways'.


  • Clare Through Time: Trouble in Paradise
    15/10/2012
    Clare College has connections with a number important historical figures, many of them famous but some also infamous. One such character is Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland (1654-58). 


  • Nicholas Collon to conduct Wallace & Gromit Prom
    18/07/2012
    Wallace & Gromit
    On July 29 Nick Collon (2001) will lead the Aurora Orchestra in the first ever performance of My Concerto in Ee, Lad, at the BBC Proms debut of much-loved animated characters, Wallace and Gromit.