Music in College at St John’s - a statement

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Our stunning new Buttery, Bar and Café building project has won a prestigious award for engineering and sustainability 🏆👇

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Are you or someone you know an early-career writer looking for a new challenge? Apply for the 2024 St John’s Harper-Wood Creative Writing and Travel Award.

Share and tag any authors and poets who may be interested. Applications open 21 February✍️👇

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St John’s alumnus Douglas Gough, Emeritus Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics Cambridge University, has been awarded 2024 Crafoord Prize in Astronomy by The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for developing ways to study inside the Sun and other stars. Congratulations 👏👇

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Impact of climate emergency on pregnant women explored thanks to £2m Wellcome funding.

A group of 700 pregnant women in The Gambia will be studied during the international four-year study, partly led by Sferruzzi-Perri lab

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Absolutely delighted to see Mia, one of our Dept of Psychology students, recognised with this award from St John's College, Cambridge.

Mia was a truly outstanding student to supervise for her dissertation and continues to be a very valued collaborator on my ongoing research focusing on #CanRisk

Happy birthday to us! Our new Buttery, Bar and Cafe have just turned the tender age of one.

We are a hungry and thirsty bunch in 12 months we've had

🍴123,188 main courses
🍰9,841 slices of cake
☕️49,772 coffees
🍺 19,176 pints

📸Nordin Ćatić

Do you want to develop and lead a 20 year vision for our Library and Archive?

A rare vacancy has arisen for a Librarian to create and deliver a transformational plan that responds to new ways of studying and accessing content in the digital age.

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In December 1,150 online interviews took place over 10 days with 110 academics meeting more than 800 prospective St John’s undergrads.

In a hugely competitive field, congrats to the 223 applicants that we have made a Cambridge University offer to & thank you to everyone who applied👏

💪A powerlifter and a charity campaigner are among five St John’s graduates to receive 2023 Larmor Awards for exceptional academic and community work.

The winners were awarded their prizes by Heather Hancock, Master of St John’s. 👏

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📸Nordin Ćatić

And with that, the 2023 season comes to an end.

Here's 12 tales from St John's from the past year in case you missed them 👇

Goodnight!

#thisisjohns

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A wonderful service to mark the appointment of Mark Oakley, now the former Dean of Chapel at St John’s, as the new Dean of Southwark.

Congratulations, Mark, you will be very much missed.

Early career researcher Amy Orben, a Group Leader MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit and academic at St John’s, has been named a Future Leaders Fellow by UK Research and Innovation

She will receive £1.9m to boost her research into social media and teenage mental health👏👇

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We’ve got rizz

#wordoftheyear #thisisjohns

The Reverend Canon Dr Victoria Johnson Victoria Johnson, Canon Precentor York Minster, has been appointed as Dean of Chapel at St John’s.

She will manage services and worship, the activities of the choirs, and pastoral care provided by the Chapel.

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A new report claims that people who studied Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic at university go on to lead more fulfilled lives.

Find out what the subject actually involves and why no previous knowledge of it is required Cambridge University in our film.

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Ancient litter has revealed the history of ordinary people who lived in the Italian countryside up to 8,000 years ago.

Archaeologist Prof Graeme Barker, a Fellow of St John’s, has co-written an ‘unrivalled’ landscape history in a new book.

Full story: joh.cam.ac.uk/ancient-litter…

Fascinating new research co-led by Jascha Achterberg, a PhD student at St John's and MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit and Gates Cambridge scholar.