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Rod Cantrill 🔶 Cambridge retweeted
Gates Cambridge will mark its 25th anniversary with an additional 25 scholarships in 2025 - gatescambridge.org/about/new… @GatesAlumni @gatesfoundation @Cambridge_Uni @YoursCambridge
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Gates Cambridge launches Impact Prize to celebrate its 25th anniversary. Nominations now open - gatescambridge.org/about/new…
Rod Cantrill 🔶 Cambridge retweeted
Great to see that Denys Lasdun’s Central Hall at Fitzwilliam College Cambridge has been Grade II listed by Historic England, alongside MJP’s later additions. The dining hall is wonderfully luminous space with a gridded concrete ceiling
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Rod Cantrill 🔶 Cambridge retweeted
NEWS // Three exceptional Post-War buildings at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, have been listed at Grade II, following support from C20 Society:
The Central Hall Building (Sir Denys Ladun, 1960-63), New Court (MJP, 1984-86), and the Chapel (MJP, 1990-91)
➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/new-p…
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Rod Cantrill 🔶 Cambridge retweeted
To learn more, and to contribute to Historic England's Missing Pieces project with your experiences of our buildings, click here: buff.ly/3LOVIsJ Images © Historic England Archive #architecture #buildings #cambridge
Rod Cantrill 🔶 Cambridge retweeted
Fitzwilliam Hall, New Court, and the Chapel at the University of Cambridge have been listed at Grade II. 👏
The Hall in Fitzwilliam College (@FitzwilliamColl) was designed by Sir Denys Lasdun, a key post-war architect.
Read more ➡️ bit.ly/FitzwilliamCollege
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Rod Cantrill 🔶 Cambridge retweeted
We are very proud to announce that three key buildings at Fitz - our Central Hall Building, New Court and the Chapel - have been listed at Grade II by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport on the advice of Historic England.
Rod Cantrill 🔶 Cambridge retweeted
We can't wait to vote the Conservatives out of government on the 4th of July and get @pippaheylings elected as the next Lib Dem MP for South Cambridgeshire!
Register to vote now! You can register both at home and university and choose to vote where your voice matters most!
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Rod Cantrill 🔶 Cambridge retweeted
Lecture: The politics of place – from Brexit to the UK general election, 2024
Hear @michaelkenny_ explore how ‘place’ impacts political life & policy choices in the UK. He'll be joined in conversation by @AndyWWestwood
Thu 23 May, 6pm @FitzwilliamColl
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Rod Cantrill 🔶 Cambridge retweeted
This week we were excited to host the 2nd Gerhard Lecture at Fitzwilliam. This annual lecture celebrates the College's historic - and ongoing - connection with Catalan studies, and we were honoured to hear from philosopher Marina Garces on the topic of promise.
Rod Cantrill 🔶 Cambridge retweeted
🚀 Excited to unveil #TheIndianCentury, a deep dive into India's ascent to global prominence and what it means for the future. 🌍✨
Order your copy ➡️ amzn.to/49nOPaU
Perfect for those keen on grasping the nuances of the 21st-century economy. 📘💼
Rod Cantrill 🔶 Cambridge retweeted
Congratulations to Fitz Junior Research Fellow, Dr Saul Nelson, whose new book, described as 'a new history of postwar painting that explores how the desire to look backward shaped some of the period’s most radical artmaking' has been published this week: buff.ly/3WcNzVi
Rod Cantrill 🔶 Cambridge retweeted
The Fitz Computer Scientists kicked off the new term with an inspirational visit to Bletchley Park...thanks to Professor Andreas Vlachos (@vlachos_nlp), Professor of Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning & Dinesh Dhamija Fellow for the photo.
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Rod Cantrill 🔶 Cambridge retweeted
First seminar in new @Gates_Cambridge Scholars’ Centre. Nobel prize winner Mike Spence, President Queens’ College Cambridge @elerianm and Gates scholar @ReidLidow talking personally about career motivation - wake up every day excited by what you do.
Rod Cantrill 🔶 Cambridge retweeted
A masterclass in thoughtful intelligent leadership from President Barroso. Huge thanks to @CSBarnard24 for organising this exceptional event.
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So proud of @Gates_Cambridge scholar @emilykassie investigative journalist and filmmaker extraordinaire. Congratulations!
🏆 The Directing Award: U.S. Documentary goes to Julian Brave NoiseCat & Emily Kassie (@emilykassie) for SUGARCANE. #Sundance
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A landmark day for the @Gates_Cambridge community with the launch of our unmissable ‘So, now what?’ podcast so-now-what.captivate.fm/lis… with brilliant scholars @KamiarMohaddes, @toddntucker & Queen Chinyere Quinn. Huge congrats to everyone involved!
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🇸🇬 Wonderful to see Baroness Sally Morgan, the Master at @FitzwilliamColl, celebrating with the Singaporean Prime Minister @leehsienloong, at this special event with alumni in #Singapore 👇
The event was part of our ongoing year of celebrations marking 100 years since Lee Kuan Yew’s birth. We were honoured that PM Lee Hsien Loong @leehsienloong joined us to remember and celebrate. Pictures by Beck Lim. #lky100 #singapore 2/2
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Had a pleasant evening at a reception with Fitzwilliam alumni, especially current and former Lee Kuan Yew Fitzwilliam scholars. TY to Fitzwilliam College & various donors for continuing to support our bright minds in the academic field. – LHL go.gov.sg/jsoq09
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Very exciting research from Fitz Fellows Srinivasan Keshav and David Coomes 👏🏻
If we don't stop clearance of tropical forests we're not going to make vital progress towards net-zero 🌴
A Cambridge-led team has developed a new, reliable system to value the carbon stored through forest #conservation👇
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