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The Grounds & Gardens team at Churchill College took part in the Big Butterfly Count for a third year running, joining the nationwide citizen science survey run by Butterfly Conservation. Gardens Team Leader Kath, together with Gardeners Ben and Charlie, used the same approach as previous years, adding another data point to the team’s picture…

Over this past term, Churchill College welcomed 500 pupils and 46 teachers from 20 schools to Cambridge, across 12 workshop days, as part of a season of engineering outreach. The visits formed part of two key programmes led by Churchill Fellow Dr Rachel Thorley: MedTech Inspire and Living Lab: Climate Action. Two programmes, one goal…

Alumnus and Fellow of Churchill College, Prof. Manish Chhowalla, has been awarded one of the most prestigious research grants in Europe. The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded Prof. Chhowalla an Advanced Grant worth approximately €3.4 million over five years to fund his work on next-generation computer chip technology. Prof. Chhowalla is one of four…

Innes Morgan is a second-year HSPS student at Churchill College, Cambridge, and already someone Whitehall is paying attention to. Raised in a remote Highland community on mainland Britain’s northernmost point, Morgan grew up watching public services pulled away and young people leave in search of a future elsewhere; a recent statistic suggests nearly half of…

Emerging playwrights from across the University of Cambridge have been recognised in this year’s ‘Other Prize,’ celebrating original verse writing and creative engagement with the traditions of Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre. English student Madeleine Whitmore of Lucy Cavendish College took first place for her play Velveteen, impressing judges with its originality and skill in handling…

Physicist, writer and BBC broadcaster Prof. Helen Czerski will join the College Master Prof. Sharon Peacock for the next Master’s Book Club event, discussing Helen’s award-winning book, The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works. Helen is an alumna and Honorary Fellow of Churchill College, and her visit is a wonderful opportunity to hear from one…

Recent Churchill College graduate Rachel Hammond has achieved something rare at the very start of a scientific career: her undergraduate essay work has been elevated into a co-first author publication in the H. H. Flor Distinguished Review, an invitation-only accolade reserved for scientists who have significantly changed collective understanding in their field. Rachel’s work appears…

Two Churchill College students spent their summer conducting cutting-edge scientific research at Harvard University, returning home with sharper laboratory skills, new international friendships, and a clearer sense of where their careers are heading. Holly Curtis and William Le, both studying Natural Sciences, travelled to Boston to join Harvard’s PRISE (Program for Research in Science and…

Dr Dushanth Seevaratnam completed his PhD in Engineering at Churchill College in 2022. Now a Postdoctoral By-Fellow at the College and a research associate in the Fluids in Advanced Manufacturing group at the Institute for Manufacturing, he co-founded GreenMixes alongside Callon Peate, a PhD student at Clare College, winning the £10,000 first prize at the…

When second-year Natural Sciences student Sonya Badianova experienced an unexpected change in her summer internship plans, what could have been a frustrating setback turned into an opportunity that would prove transformative for her scientific development. Thanks to support from Churchill’s Senior Tutor Dr Rita Monson, Sonya secured a place in the laboratory of Prof. Marko…

Churchill College Fellow and renowned economist Prof. Dame Diane Coyle will join the College Master Prof. Sharon Peacock for the Master’s Book Club series, discussing Diane’s latest work on rethinking how we measure economic progress in the modern age. As Bennett Professor of Public Policy at the University of Cambridge and a member of the…