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🦆 Duckling herding is a fine, long-standing spring tradition for our Colleges!

The College teams were lucky enough to document one duck family on their epic journey.

Here they go from Corpus Christi through St Catharine's College to Queens' College for their first swim together.

On Sunday 21st April we have a series of events in College to mark the centenary of the death of Sir Charles Villiers Stanford. Joining us is Professor Jeremy Dibble, President of The Stanford Society

Events open to all, click below to see the full programme:
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Congratulations to Albert Guillén i Fàbregas, Beverley Glover, Ian Henderson and Paul Lane on receiving prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grants 🎉

This will support their ambitious work in Department of Plant Sciences, Engineering Dept and Cambridge Archaeology.

Read more👇
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Eid Mubarak to everyone celebrating this week, in our link areas and across the world!
#EidMubarak

Giving Day is back from the 8th-9th May! 💚 We're encouraging our community of alumni, staff, Fellows, students & friends to support five essential causes at Queens': Sustainability, Accessibility, History, Engineering & the Unrestricted Fund. See more: youtube.com/watch?v=jfzzAf…

Thrilled to welcome all our offer holders to College today to find out more about life at Queens' and Cambridge University. We hope you all had a fun day and we're looking forward to seeing you again in September!

If you missed Prof Ioanna Sitaridou's appearance on Radio 4 yesterday talking about this exciting new research, you can still catch up on the broadcast online:
bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

Segment starts around 52:00 💬

We were delighted at Queens' College to admit last week Professor James Maynard and Baroness Moyo as Honorary Fellows of the College.
Cambridge University @dambisamoyo Queens' Alumni & Development

Glimpses of spring in the Grove at Queens' College! 🌼

Another fantastic event from the Queens' College Entrepreneurship Society for their annual Entrepreneurship Competition, with keynotes, pitches, panel discussion & drinks reception, plus the winners' announcement. Pictured: Dr Jane Osbourn OBE (Hon Fellow, 1984), keynote speaker.

On University Mental Health Day, our College leaders and wellbeing staff have a message for students about the range of support you can reach out to here at Cambridge.

Find support at studentsupport.cam.ac.uk

#UniMentalHealthDay #ReachOutCambridge

Queens' College was honoured with a visit from the President and First Lady of Bangladesh today, complete with blue sky! ☀️ They were presented with a commemorative Queens' shield by President Mohamed A. El-Erian.

Scholar Reid Lidow will join Nobel Laureate Michael Spence and Mohamed El-Erian, President of Queen's College, to deliver the 2024 Gates Cambridge Annual Lecture. Book your tickets now - gatescambridge.org/about/news/way… GatesCambridgeAlumni Queens' College Cambridge Centre of Development Studies Cambridge University Mohamed A. El-Erian

We have two exciting #music events taking place at Queens' this weekend! To mark the centenary of the death of composer and former Organ Scholar Charles Villiers Stanford.

All welcome! Details in link below 🎶

queens.shorthandstories.com/weekend-music-…

Watersprite Film Festival starts on Friday, with screenings taking place in Fitzpatrick Hall at @queenscam! 📽️ This year's Festival Director is alumnus Zeb Goriely (2017), and fellow alumna Chakira Alin (2019) is a panel member sharing her tips on starting a career in film. #WS24

Next week is the University of Cambridge Battle of the Bands finale! 🎸🎹🎶
Two of our students are heading to the Take It to the Bridge competition on Friday 1 March with their bands.

Find out more:
queens.shorthandstories.com/take-it-to-the…

A superb Angevin Talk at Queens’ College, Cambridge with the extremely talented Charlie Siem. What a special treat! Thank you Anna and Charlie.

Charlie Siem Queens' College Queens' Alumni & Development Cambridge University A Cambridge Diary

Prof Clare Bryant discusses the effects of diet change and fasting on chronic inflammation as part of a Cambridge Department of Medicine research study this week in The Times:
Fasting for 24 hours between meals could lower diabetes risk (thetimes.co.uk)