Fountain Issue 30 • Summer 2021

The Fountain Issue 30 • Summer 2021

‘Reflection’ by keen photographer and final year engineering student Areeg Ashraf Emarah (2017), who features in the Student spot on page 24. © AREEGEMARAH

Welcome from a Fellow Contents It is my pleasure to welcome you to the Summer Issue 30, Summer 2021 2021 edition of The Fountain as the new Senior REGULARS: Bursar. I am very familiar to Cambridge from my student days so I am humbled to return to this 4–5 beautiful city that holds so many fond memories Alumni News for me. 6–9 This year, we faced unprecedented challenges. I am impressed by how College News the College has come together as a community. Personal highlights include the Masters’ welcome to Freshers in Great Court, my virtual 10–11 fireside chat with the students, and meeting many other Fellows A day in the life of Steven Archer outdoors in the stunning College grounds. 31 One great example of how the Fellowship, students, staff and alumni Cryptic Crossword have engaged is around the important topic of climate change. This 32 year, Trinity has committed to net zero in our endowment by 2050 and pledged to divest from fossil fuel securities by the end of the year, which Events you can read more about in College News on page 6. FEATURES: This summer edition of the magazine is filled with features to update 12–15 you on what has been happening in all corners of the College over A year alone, together the last year – and what a year. TCSU President, Serena Cole (2019) and her predecessor, Ludvig Brekke (2018) tell us how the pandemic 16–17 has affected student lives, and who and what has kept them going. Litmus Project Three Trinity medics – Dr Laith Alexander (2011), Dr Rupert Beale, (1996) and Dr Bronya Gorney (1998) – share how they have been 18–22 helping in the fight to conquer COVID and to support those affected. COVID-19: one year in Head Gardener Tom Hooijenga talks about how he and his team have managed during the pandemic, and their plans for keeping the College 23 gardens flourishing long into the future. We spend a day in the life of Trinity treasures new Trinity Sub-Librarian Steven Archer, and Library Graduate Trainee 24 Vicky Gray reveals a treasure from the Wren Library. We also hear from Student spot: Professor Simon Baron-Cohen (e1995), who asks if there is a link Areeg Ashraf Emarah between autism and the capacity for invention. 25 We hope that you enjoy reading this edition, and please do share your Alumni profile: Amanda Talhat news and views with us at [email protected]. 26–27 Richard Turnill (e2020) A green haven Senior Bursar 28–30 Autism and Invention

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Photography: Front Cover, Reflection. Editor: Inside Front Cover, Spring, sprung. [email protected] Areeg Emarah (2017). www.trin.cam.ac.uk/alumni 4 The Fountain | Issue 30 5

Civil and structural engineer, Congratulations to Dr Jonathan Su-Mei Thompson On 19 March 2021, Baron Ajit Jo da Silva (1985) OBE C M Wan (2014), Academic (1984), Chief Executive Shetty (1965) received an received a Damehood as doctor (oncology) at Guy’s of Media Trust, was honorary doctorate degree part of the Queen’s New Year and St Thomas’ Hospitals, appointed to the Board from Ghent University’s Honours 2021 list for services who was selected for Forbes of Commissioners of Faculty of Pharmaceutical to humanitarian relief and magazine’s 30 Under 30 the Equality and Human Sciences for his services to international development. Europe 2021 list in the Science Rights Commission on science and research. Jo established Arup’s & Healthcare category. 12 November 2020. International Development business in 2007.

The Master, Dame Sally Davies (e2019) and the Senior Bursar, Richard Turnill, joined alumni in Hong Kong for a special ‘Meet the Master’ event via Zoom on 22 February. To join our Trinity in Hong group, visit the Associations’ web page: www.trin.cam.ac.uk/ alumni/associations/

Congratulations to Our Trinity in New York alumni Amanda Dennis group launched on 22 December Since last summer, Trinity (2006) on her debut 2020 with an evening of conversation in Japan has held meetings novel Her Here, with Stephen Layton MBE (e2006) via Zoom with Lord Martin published by Bellevue and music from the Trinity College Rees (1960), Professor On 24 October 2020, Literary Press on Choir. Thank you to Christos Thank you to all the Venki Ramakrishnan Dr Peter Biar Ajak (2013) 9 March 2021. Koutsoyannis (1998, pictured above) alumni in Singapore who (e2008), Professor Didier became the first South and the rest of the Committee for joined The Master, Dame Queloz (e2013) Dame Sarah Sudanese national to be making it happen. To join the group Sally Davies and the Worthington QC (e2011), awarded a PhD from the please visit: www.trin.cam.ac.uk/ Senior Bursar, Richard Sir Gregory Winter (1970), University of Cambridge. alumni/associations Turnill (pictured above) and Professor Huw Price via zoom for a special (e2011). Thank you to all ‘Meet the Master’ event the speakers and group on 10 March, and who Chair, Gerhard Fasol (1978, made it such an enjoyable pictured above), for providing occasion for everyone. such a fantastic programme Global Alumni News of events for members! 6 The Fountain | Issue 30 7

College News Professor Sir Shankar Balasubramanian co-awarded 2020 Millennium Technology Prize © NATHAN PITT, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE Trinity Fellow prizes. Sir Shankar and Sir David’s it’s had. We’re so pleased on behalf of Trinity’s endowment commits to Net Zero by 2050 Professor rapid genome sequencing technology all the people who’ve been involved in Sir Shankar has transformed biology and genomic making the technology happen.’ and divestment from fossil fuels Balasubramanian medicine worldwide and opened up new (e1994) and pharmaceutical avenues, for example, to Chair of the Millennium Technology Christ’s Fellow detect cancer ‘signatures’ floating in the Prize Selection Committee, Professor In February 2021, Trinity announced that it had amended the College’s investment policy to commit to Professor Sir blood. The technology has also played a Päivi Törmä, said ‘The future potential of achieving net zero carbon emissions before 2050, in line with the spirit of the Paris Agreement. David Klenerman have been awarded vital role in the fight against COVID-19. NGS is enormous and the exploitation the 2020 Millennium Technology Prize of the technology is still in its infancy. Herchel Smith Professor of Medicinal The technology will be a crucial element Trinity’s endowment will now have a amount of greenhouse gas emissions The Master, Dame Sally Davies, said the for ‘their innovation of Next Generation Chemistry at Cambridge and Senior in promoting sustainable development dual mandate: to continue delivering produced are cancelled out by those new approach was ‘a significant step in DNA Sequencing (NGS), technology Group Leader at the Cancer Research through personalisation of medicine, sustainable income growth and to removed from the atmosphere. Trinity’s journey to addressing climate that enables fast, accurate, low-cost and UK Cambridge Institute, Sir Shankar understanding and fighting killer commit to a significant, lasting and change. This is clearly an issue that large-scale genome sequencing.’ said, ‘This is the biggest international diseases, and hence improving the positive impact on improving its The Senior Bursar, Richard Turnill, extends beyond the endowment. The prize that David and I have received that quality of life.’ environmental footprint and achieving said the decision to change Trinity’s World Health Organisation cited climate The one million Euro Prize, awarded by recognises this technology originated net zero before 2050. The move investment policy had been taken change, along with pandemics, as one Technology Academy Finland, is one of from Cambridge and the wider impact Read more: www.trin.cam.ac.uk/news/ includes divestment from all fossil fuel after extensive consultation with of the key global health challenges of the world’s most prestigious science investments in public equities by the Fellows, students, other colleges the 2020s, and we at Trinity intend to end of 2021. and experts. bring together expertise both within and beyond the College to play a greater role Boat Race double victory at Ely Neil Hopkinson The UK government is legally bound ‘We now have an ambitious plan to in further climate change action.’ Memorial Fund to reduce greenhouse gas emissions achieve net zero before 2050, which, On 4 April, Cambridge scored a double victory in the Boat Race, by 100% relative to 1990 levels by while challenging, given the nature of For further details on Trinity’s new To celebrate the unique contribution 2050, in line with the international the endowment’s portfolio, is achievable approach to its investments, and to with both the women’s and men’s teams putting in incredible of Trinity Fellow Dr Neil Hopkinson 2015 Paris Agreement, which aims to and consistent with the College’s watch a short film with the Senior Bursar, performances in the nail-bitingly close contests. (1957–2021) to the study and teaching limit global warming to well below 2 income growth objectives. We will move please visit the website: of undergraduates in Classics at degrees Celsius, preferably limited to rapidly where we can, starting with www.trin.cam.ac.uk/news/trinity- Cambridge, the Neil Hopkinson 1.5 degrees, compared to pre-industrial divestment from all fossil fuel exposure commits-to-net-zero-by-2050-and- Memorial Fund has been established. levels. ‘Net zero’ is achieved when the in our public equities this year.’ divestment-from-fossil-fuels The Fund will support undergraduates from low-income households, with

Dr Hopkinson was a brilliant and devoted teacher who inspired and pushed his students to achieve their utmost, and the fund in his honour will enable students to pursue their studies and to fulfil their academic potential. You can read alumni tributes and discover more about Dr Hopkinson and the Fund on the website: www.trin.cam. ac.uk/alumni/giving-to-trinity/ neil-hopkinson-memorial-fund

Congratulations to Trinity engineering watch a YouTube film of him in action, © KATIE LAM (2009) student Charlie Marcus (2018), who and sharing just what it meant to coxed the men’s boat for the 166th compete in the Race. men’s race. boatrace.pocketmags.com/ You can read a pre-race interview with magazine/reader/213514/118 Charlie in the Boat Race magazine to discover why he was so keen to beat youtube.com/watch?v=YqHdE8X1J6Q Oxford – mission accomplished! – and Bountiful blossom in the Fellows’ Garden, Spring 2021. 8 The Fountain | Issue 30 9

Trinity launches two new Year 12 mentoring schemes Celebrating 100 years of the Lt. Charles Vice-Chancellor’s H. Fiske III Scholarships Social Impact The College has this year launched two new mentoring schemes to encourage Year 12 pupils to aspire Award 2021 to get to university. Launched on 9 March, the Year 12 Mentoring Scheme is designed to combat the 2021 marks the centenary of the Lt. Charles H. Fiske III Scholarship at Trinity. negative consequences of the pandemic on pupils’ learning, and to compensate for support they could Mr and Mrs Charles H. Fiske Jr established the Scholarship in 1921, in memory Forth year engineering student have missed out on. of their son, who was a member of the Harvard class of 1919. Areeg Ashraf Emarah (2017) has received the Vice-Chancellor’s Social © GRAHAM COPEKOGA The pilot scheme offers 20 less- Although Fiske passed his entrance Scholarship selection committee Impact Award 2021 for her access advantaged students with a strong exams to Harvard, he first went abroad member, Robert N. Shapiro (1972) and student support work, and academic record the opportunity to travel. When World War I broke out, said, ‘The Fiske Scholarship honors her commitment to the May Week to participate in a series of online he abandoned his travels and entered historic ties between Harvard and Alternative (MWA) movement. You mentoring sessions, and to complete Trinity. In Cambridge he had his first Trinity, has a vibrant presence today can read about Areeg’s incredible assignments that will enhance military training in the Reserve Officers’ in both institutions, and now launches work during her time at Trinity in the their curriculum knowledge and Training Corps, and returned to enter into its second century. My Trinity year Student spot on page 24. understanding of the Cambridge Harvard in the autumn of 1915. However, was transformative in many ways, © SIR CAM application process. his student career was interrupted by intellectually and personally – that is his war service, and it was brought to a widely shared experience of all Fiske Trinity’s Outreach Coordinator, Jon Datta, an end by his death on the front lines in Scholars. I treasure the friendships I’ve who devised the programme, said: France in August 1918. made at Trinity, insights I gained, and ongoing connections I enjoy.’ ‘We expect the scheme to break down The Fiske Scholarship provides a year barriers, both real and perceived, to of study and support at Trinity for a selective universities. We want to be Harvard graduate in the year after To discover more about the Scholarship an ongoing point of contact to provide graduation, and is awarded to students visit www.hcs.uraf.harvard.edu support for students, who will likely who have been actively engaged in their academic and extracurricular pursuits, feel overwhelmed by the effects of the Target Oxbridge participants at Trinity in 2019. pandemic constraints on their learning.’ and who show great promise of further heritage participating in subject-specific ‘I love hearing the impact that access intellectual and personal growth. The second new initiative – ‘Track webinars led by Trinity PhD students. work has had on incoming Freshers and Fiske Scholar 1972–73 and former to Trin’– has been created by Trinity There will also be sessions with Trinity’s hope that the mentoring and guidance students Serena Cole, Elizabeth Outreach Team offering guidance through Track to Trin will bring high- Beevers and Vanessa Tang (all 2019), about applying to Cambridge. Aware achieving black students one step closer who have devised a ‘by students, for of the popularity of Target Oxbridge’s to applying and getting into Cambridge.’ students’ mentoring scheme for Year 12 mentoring programme, Serena, Eight Junior Research Fellows join Trinity in 2021 black students, which builds on Target Elizabeth and Vanessa devised the Oxbridge’s national programme. student-led pilot when they worked To discover more about Trinity’s Access Trinity has appointed eight Junior Research Fellows across the academic disciplines, together on Trinity College Students’ and Outreach programme, visit the new all of whom will be joining the College in October 2021. ‘Track to Trin’ will involve a pilot group Union last year. Serena, President of Outreach Hub: of students of African and Caribbean TCSU for 2021–22, said: www.trin.cam.ac.uk/access/hub-home You can ‘meet’ each of the Fellows in a series of interviews on the website, in which they will be sharing the focus of their research Andrew Marvell: 400 years on and what they are most looking forward to when they © TRINITY COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE Dr Naomi Richman Mr Wladislaw Dr Henry Lee-Six Mr Oliver Janzer join the Trinity community: The 400th anniversary of the birth of poet Andrew Marvell (1621–78) for research in Michailow for for research in for research in Pure was on 31 March 2021. To mark the occasion, Senior Research Fellow, Anthropology research in Physics Medical Sciences Mathematics www.trin.cam.ac.uk/ Professor Angela Leighton (e2006) was asked to contribute a poem news/meet-trinitys-junior- about Marvell to a new collection. research-fellows.

In a short film on the website, Professor poem, to a backdrop of birdsong in the Leighton shares her poem ‘By the tide Fellows’ Garden. of Humber’, which was inspired by a line from Marvell’s ‘To his Coy Mistress’. www.trin.cam.ac.uk/news/andrew- You can also enjoy actor Pip Torrens’ marvell-400-years-on Mr Rory Gregson for Ms Rita Teixeira Da Dr Daniel Sperrin Mr Benjamin (1978) reading of Marvell’s seduction research in Law Costa for research in for research in Marschall for research Mathematical Physics English Literature in Philosophy © CHERYL-SAMANTHA OWEN

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Tell us about our holdings; both of these are really good ways Q your background (and excuses!) for me to engage with materials before Trinity. in the Library, and I really enjoy that. There is administrative work to be done too, just to dispel the For the last 4 years I was myth that librarians only sit and read books all day! College Librarian at our sister college, Christ What do you particularly enjoy about Church, Oxford, where I college librarianship and what are was only the third person Q its challenges? to hold the position in the last 65 years! It was amazing to be given pretty much free rein to One of the unique elements of college librarianship totally overhaul the Library’s services and really is having that mix of old and new side-by-side. I’ve re-integrate the Library as the heart of the academic reached a point where I am a head of department, community within College. Before that, most of my but am still lucky enough to have some hands-on experience had been working in Cambridge colleges, work with collections and readers. If I were doing a as Curator and Digital Projects Librarian in the job at a similar level at the University Library, say, Why are libraries so important, now more in the wake of the 10th century monastic reform Parker Library, and as Assistant Librarian at Christ’s. I would be mainly a manager, so I really value still Q than ever? movement, which sought to bring standards back being involved in pretty much every aspect of what I also spent several years at the London Library in to English monastic life that had slipped somewhat. St James’s Square, becoming Head of Reference goes on. The flip side of this is that you have to be Well, I am probably slightly biased here, but they Inspirational books like this formed part of this and managing the busy reading rooms. prepared to switch from working on a provenance remain, as they have for centuries, as spaces where movement, and I think its power and symbolism enquiry about an early printed book to helping a knowledge can be discovered and explored at the are just as meaningful some 1000 years later. What appealed to you about the student get access to an online database, when readers’ own pace. In an increasingly digital world, opportunity to join Trinity, and to make the suddenly you notice a damp patch in the ceiling they offer a place to come and consult analogue Q What is your desert island book, and why? move from ‘The Other Place’? that needs investigating. So it’s a pretty varied role! material to give our screen-tired eyes a break, and to browse along shelves in a way that just can’t be Q The librarian in me wants to answer this This is actually a re-joining of Trinity for me; my How have you and the team managed to replicated online. What we are also seeing, perhaps question with a curt one-liner – books and sand first professional job was here as the Library’s keep the Library ‘open for business’ for the most importantly, is that libraries provide a social don’t mix! If I could bring myself to overlook that, and Graduate Trainee. It was the most amazing start Q Trinity community during the past year? space for people to work in; either in a quiet corner, I’m going to sound like an Anglo-Saxon obsessive to a library career, and if you asked anyone who How has technology helped? or at a table surrounded by others. That sense now, but I think I’d have to take Richard Hamer’s knew me in a professional context, they would tell of being in space designed for study, and where A Choice of Anglo-Saxon Verse (Faber and Faber, you that this job is the one I’d always dreamed of We’ve – amazingly, and with thanks to our everyone around you is doing the same thing, plays 1970). As a student it was by my side constantly, and doing. When the Sub-Librarian post was advertised colleagues across College – managed to keep the an important role in our increasingly online and now years later, it’s something I can pick up and dip in the middle of the first lockdown last year, it College Library open to readers since term started isolated way of working. into at any time. I’m not a big fan of poetry overall, certainly wasn’t the ideal time to be thinking about in October 2020 by reducing the number of seats, but there is just something so sumptuous about the leaving my job in Oxford, or starting a new one and installing the now ubiquitous screens, and having a What’s your favourite item in the Trinity opening of the elegiac poem The Dream of the Rood although its been challenging, I am so glad I did. one-way system in place. In Lent Term we set up a Q Collection and why? – ‘Hwaet, ic swefna cyst secgan wylle…Hear while I was an undergrad in Cambridge so it feels a bit weekly online reading room session where students I tell about the best of dreams…’ that it just draws like coming home, and as an ASNaC, having some could ‘come’ to the Library for an afternoon and How can I pick just one? The ASNaC in me feels I must choose something of that ilk, and the some in every time. When I started at Christ Church, I of the most significant Anglo-Saxon manuscripts work alongside others. Staff ran the sessions and called Trinity Gospels (MS B.10.4) featured heavily learned that Richard Hamer had, in fact, been Fellow stored just metres away from my desk is an were there to answer questions, and co-ordinated in my Masters dissertation so I feel I know it quite Librarian there for many years and still came to exceptional treat. break times so people could chat with others about well; it’s nice to be reunited after several years! It the Library regularly; now knowing the great man what they were working on and have a sense of that is a stunning example of a manuscript produced himself makes the book even better! Q What is your ‘typical’ day as Sub-Librarian? collective space that the Library would normally give. Overall, I am responsible for supporting the The lavish opening to What support initiatives have you work of Dr Nicolas Bell, the Librarian, and for the Gospel of Mark introduced to help students to cope with managing the operational aspects of running the Q (MS B.10.4). the situation? Library and its staffing. Days haven’t really been very ‘normal’ so far, but one of my favourite parts We now have a postal loans scheme set up, so is very first thing when you’re in the Library before those working remotely can order library books to anyone else. Opening up with the morning sun be sent to them (free of charge), and we have been streaming through the Wren windows and being in ordering new books to be shipped directly from that cavernous space all alone is something that suppliers to students at home. We have also been makes me feel so lucky every day. requesting ebooks for purchase, and sending scans out of library materials. We are also very aware that After that, most days at the moment are a fairly the Library has a welfare role to play, so have set up relentless round of online meetings with the a light reading collection to encourage recreational greatest excitement being wondering whether it time away from screens, and have a selection of will be on Zoom or Teams! We get lots of enquiries board games for loan which students can play in from people wanting to reproduce images from their household bubbles, or jigsaws with stunning

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF THE LIFE OF IN DAY A Sub-Librarian Trinity Archer, Steven the collections, or to ask research questions about images of Wren items on them. 12 The Fountain | Issue 30 13 © DAVID ROSE A year alone, together

TCSU President Serena Cole and last year’s President, Ludvig Brekke, spoke with Rachel Sweet of ARDO about the past student year, coping with lockdown, and keeping the community together through it all.

© SIMON WARRENER© How have you stayed motivated and connected? Q It was easier in the first phase, because everyone was really trying, so I had lots of calls with my friends, just talking and playing games. Now in the later phases, it’s more about keeping structure – taking breaks to go on a walk, or going to the shop.

What have you missed the most? Q I’ve missed the student experience, basically, and all the traditions of Cambridge. My year has missed two May Balls now – I’m lucky as a medic that I’ll be here for an three extra years, but for the rest of my year it’s incredibly saddening. Other things like Halfway Hall, formals, those experiences Serena Cole (2019, Medical Sciences) that really make friend groups. You can’t just pop round to someone’s room at midnight to say hi! TCSU President 2021–2022 Why did you decide to run for TCSU President What has the COVID-19 pandemic looked like for you? Q this year? Q I spent the first lockdown in Nigeria – I’d gone home The Matriculation picnic lunch hampers were a definite hit. I’ve known for a long time that I was interested in it – I for Easter and ended up spending 6 months there. It was remember being inspired by the President when I joined Trinity the longest time my family had really spent in one place, so as a Fresher. After being the BME Officer on TCSU last year, we took the opportunity to work on our family unit and on I didn’t really think about the different challenge of this year of this, TCSU is also a much bigger part of Freshers’ lives than you could have 90 people eating Krispy Kreme doughnuts ourselves. I came back to Cambridge for Michaelmas Term, – the decision to run was more influenced by other people’s usual – particularly during Freshers’ Week when they couldn’t and talking – it was a great way to get outside of your room and then spent this last lockdown in London. I’m very glad encouragement. Having that support from others on TCSU, go out to clubs. It’s been really sad to see that two of the clubs and get people together. I’ve been in different locations over the last year, which I know even though the job is very different with the pandemic, meant in Cambridge aren’t coming back after lockdown – Cindies hasn’t been the experience for everyone. there wasn’t any doubt in my mind. and Fez – but hopefully the nightlife will recover soon! Consistent communication has also been really important, like the ‘In Trin’ newsletter for students, which has been great Second year medicine is said to be the hardest, and it has How has the TCSU Committee had to adapt? What have you learnt about the Trinity Community for keeping us up-to-date and connected with College. At the been – our exams were delayed until September which gave Q Q and yourself over this year? start of the pandemic, we had emails from the Master each us months to revise, but afterwards we only had a week until The perception of TCSU has changed the most as we’ve week with stories and encouragement to keep your head Just how big the Trinity community is. It’s easy to become the new year started. We’ve had to keep going without much become a much bigger part of the student experience. We up. This continuity of communications and events has been isolated within your friend group while we can only see six of a break so it’s been hard to keep the motivation up, knowing realised quickly that if TCSU wasn’t putting on events and really important, so it doesn’t just seem like life has stopped people, but I’ve still been meeting new people throughout the I’m in the hardest year and I’m doing it through COVID-19. activities there just wouldn’t be anything happening. Because because of COVID-19! year. I’ve also been learning how to avoid taking socialising for granted – it’s really important to make the most of it, try to © DAVID ROSE How do you feel about being a future doctor? learn more about people and reach out as much as possible. Q The pandemic has really brought perspective to the What are you most proud of over the last year? degree – we’re in the theory stage at the moment, so it’s much more focused on cells rather than being with patients. Q Definitely Black History Month (October 2020). When With the pandemic though, we can learn something about I was BME Officer I organised the first Black History Month the immune system, for example, and then be able to see real for Trinity, which was a really big deal. I’m really proud that examples in the news. it will leave a lasting impact on the College, and that people enjoyed it, which was the main thing. Also, as a medic, people expect you to know what’s going on with COVID-19 and to be able to explain things about vaccines Are there any initiatives over the last few terms etc. Often it is material we’ve not covered yet, but that you’ve appreciated? Q means it’s an opportunity to keep reading around the course The Welfare Teas had the biggest impact on me. It really material. It pushes me to keep up-to-date with current events helped structure the week, and because it was in the marquee and connected with the medical community. TCSU welcoming the new arrivals in Nevile’s Court. Socially distanced dinner in Hall. 14 The Fountain | Issue 30 15

‘… we were probably better prepared © DAVID ROSE for this than we expected. Being an academic, resourceful community, the students have been great at making the most of an exceptionally difficult situation and we should be proud of how we’ve confronted the challenges’

Ludvig Brekke (2018, Law) TCSU President 2020–2021

What has the last year looked like for you? What was it like being TCSU President? Q When I left Cambridge in March, I went home to my family Q It was a great experience, although I had little idea of what in Norway. This definitely wasn’t a bad experience, though it I was getting into! As a committee, we quickly realised that it was a small shock to lose the independence of university life. would be a bigger time commitment than expected – but that It was lovely to return to College for Michaelmas, and then I we also had a unique opportunity to do more for our fellow spent Lent Term back in Norway again – in some ways Lent students. It certainly taught me a lot about time management, was easier than last Easter because we knew what we’d be collaboration, and coping with difficult situations. We were also going into, though it was also coupled with the exhaustion that able to work more closely with the College leadership than we are all feeling at this stage of the pandemic. previous committees – we’ve really dealt with the challenges as a team and as a community. How have you stayed motivated? What College initiatives have you appreciated? Q It has been very difficult to maintain consistency over the last year – there have been days of complete lethargy and Q It was fantastic to be a part of Freshers’ Week. It was a ennui – but also times when motivation has been stronger, logistical nightmare, but through very careful collaboration knowing you have much more time to focus on your work with College we managed to produce something quite special. with very few distractions. I also started keeping a diary a few The Freshers were a big part of that – I think they knew that months back, which has really helped me to focus, keep the they needed to make the most of the opportunity to meet days from floating into each other, and is probably something people and to get to know the College, so they made an I’ll continue with. incredible effort.

Have you been able to continue with your societies? The Alumni Office arranged a marvellous event with TV and radio comedy producer and writer, John Lloyd (Law, Q TCSU was my main focus last year, especially since 1970) recently. I knew a little about him beforehand from his most other societies went into hibernation. This year, I’m on wonderful Desert Island Discs, but the event exceeded all the University Challenge team so we’ve done lots of virtual of our expectations. He was so generous with his time – he quizzing and practice matches – it’s been great to build that answered all our questions and really engaged with us. He’s team relationship for when we go on the show. I’m also looking Top left: The amazing catering team have been working so hard to keep us all well-fed. a man who’s lived such an interesting life and been through a forward to playing squash and football again. Top right: Out on the rounds, delivering food packages across College. lot, and at the event he talked about everything very openly. Above: The Choir leading a rendition of Danny Boy in Great Court during the Freshers’ welcome was a moving and memorable moment. What have you missed the most? Q What have you learnt about the Trinity community Like many others, I’ve missed the opportunity to relax Q this year? What are you looking forward to? What will you take away from your time at Trinity? with friends. When you’re by yourself, it can be difficult to That we were probably better prepared for this than we Q Hopefully finding out what I want to do with my life! That’s Q A huge amount of gratitude. First of all, I’ve loved my switch off without feeling guilty. That’s much easier with other expected. Being an academic, resourceful community, the big concern for most people my age, but since graduation time here, and that appreciation is not going to fade away people, whether by having a drink or meal, watching a film, or the students have been great at making the most of an is coming up it feels more pressing than usual. I’m also looking any time soon. Also the knowledge that this experience – playing sports. I’ve also missed the Cambridge experience. exceptionally difficult situation and we should be proud of how forward to seeing what we all learn from the pandemic – I the people I’ve met here, the things I’ve learned, the lessons You’re only at Trinity for a few years, and we’re missing out we’ve confronted the challenges. I’ve also learnt how many hope we’ll emerge more open, attentive and appreciative, both from TCSU – will stay with me for a very long time. I am on formals, bops and balls, sports and society events – even members of the community will go above and beyond to look of how essential human interactions are to our well-being, and very proud to have been here, and to have been a student lectures and in-person supervisions – it’s difficult to not get after the students, such as the Tutors, and our Chaplains, of how fragile the status quo is. Normality is a kind of luxury during this weird time, which has definitely come with its a bit maudlin when you think about the time and experiences John and Olga, who have been integral to the welfare of those we had forgotten to appreciate, and I hope this lesson spurs own lessons. you can’t get back. students who have needed to stay in College. us on to be more proactive and collaborative. 16 The Fountain | Issue 30 17

By Lauren Brown (2014), Litmus Project Coordinator

Why Trinity’s Litmus schools creative writing project is so important

When I first heard about the Litmus schools creative writing project through my dear friend and last year’s brilliant project manager and former Trinity Schools Liaison Officer Terri-Leigh Riley, I was so excited.

As a former Trinity English student and writing, and indeed reading for pleasure, Trinity Literary Society president-turned- and that’s why I desperately wanted to writer, journalist and soon-to-be author coordinate this year’s iteration of the myself, it combined two of my passions: project. I’m so glad admissions tutor championing underrepresented groups Professor Adrian Poole (1967) has through outreach work, something I did entrusted me with it. Lauren (left) with last year’s Litmus Project Coordinator, Terri-Leigh Riley. a lot of when I was an undergraduate and which I hugely benefited from Founded last year by author Ali Smith, of submissions from right across the Jon Datta, Outreach Coordinator, as a student from a working class the College’s first Senior Fellow UK. And while this gives the project a said: ‘The objective of the project for background, and creative writing. Commoner in the Creative Arts, who competitive edge never intended, as the College is to respond to an wanted to create a ‘writing collective we will now have to select which pieces identifiable gap in engagement between Of all the gifts studying at Cambridge like no other’, The Litmus Project invites go into this summer’s print anthology, Cambridge and other Russell Group gave me, learning how to confidently UK students to respond creatively to a we’re extremely keen to emphasise that universities with schools in terms express myself in my own unique voice, theme – in 2019–20 it was ‘in common’, everyone who participates is a winner of English and creative writing; and verbally as well as in writing, has been this year it is ‘the green light’ – and be and a part of The Litmus. to increase understanding of the by far the greatest. Oftentimes students published on the Trinity website. All challenges that talented pupils who from state schools aren’t given as much of the submissions receive feedback Looking to the future, we have an want to read English face in applying The Litmus has been made opportunity to hone these skills as – which was how I contributed to The exciting collaboration with Cambridge and getting to Higher Education. In a possible thanks to a generous their privately educated counterparts, Litmus last year – and in 2019–2020 Literary Festival in the pipeline, a cameo year when the importance of education gift from an anonymous donor. who broadly have greater access to the number of submissions meant the on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire and a and the need to address gaping activities like debating, and when I team were able to print the majority in new and ever-growing social media inequalities have become clearer than This year’s Litmus was open got to Cambridge I struggled at first an anthology, editions of which were presence. We hope to keep growing ever, the aims and achievements of to students in year 9-11 from to properly articulate exactly what it signed by Ali and sent to participating this wonderful project, potentially The Litmus Project have taken on a non-fee paying schools, who was I wanted to say. I was intimidated students and their schools. expanding it somewhere along the line particular significance. were invited to submit a piece and embarrassed. But as I grew in to include different categories such as of creative writing no longer confidence, and realised that my accent In 2019 physical creative writing short film making, art and more, and to Creativity and emotional intelligence than 500 words responding to and linguistic idiosyncrasies were not workshops were held in schools, recruit student volunteers and alumni have never been more important and the theme ‘the green light’. All only OK but joyously mine, it was like however due to the COVID-19 pandemic to write for our blog and participate in we hope, via The Litmus, to foster these information can be found at someone had thrown a window open in this year the team – comprising myself, future workshops. skills through both the workshops and https://web.trin.cam.ac.uk/ my mind and let the fresh air flood in. Trinity Outreach Coordinator Jon Datta, student submissions.’ litmus/ and you can keep Schools Liaison Officer Lizzie Bowes These are our ambitions. And while we up-to-date with the latest Being able to articulate myself has had and volunteer and alumna Sarah Lusack are still in many ways at the genesis of announcements at our twitter not only myriad professional benefits (2012) – held and continue to hold the project, learning what works and page: @litmus_the but personal ones too; it’s no secret virtual workshops for students that have doesn’t, what we could change and Lauren’s debut, Hands: An Anxious that creative writing, or any form of been hailed as ‘excellent’ and ‘really fun’. what we could build upon, already the Mind Unpicked is out in January 2022 If you are interested in self-expression, helps with mental varied and original work we’ve seen with HarperNorth. contributing to The Litmus Even though the deadline for health and personal wellbeing. I saw in showcased so far is inspiration enough @laurenrbrown95 blog or participating in future the Litmus an incredible opportunity to submissions is 1 June, as I write this © ISTOCK.COM/ MISSTUNI to do everything we can to ensure it workshops, please get in touch share this experience with students who in April, we have, incredibly, already keeps getting bigger, better, as inclusive laurenrbrown.contently.com with the Alumni Office:

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Three Trinity medics reflect on their year helping to conquer COVID, and on how Tell us about the work you’re doing in the response). It’s also critically important that we the global challenge could be resolved. Qfight against COVID-19, and did what you continue to address the health inequalities that learnt at Trinity help in any way? were made so apparent by the pandemic. The patients I saw become seriously unwell were all The admissions ward and general medical wards too often poorer; black, Hispanic and Latino Dr Laith Alexander (2011) were very much at the coalface of the pandemic, American; in jobs where they had been exposed to and being at Trinity taught me three key skills I matriculated in 2011, and spent nine years at Trinity reading medicine together with a PhD in lots of other people (such as supermarket workers) that were invaluable as a fledgling doctor in these neuroscience. I am currently a Foundation Year 1 (FY1) doctor working in acute medicine at St Thomas’ or obese with other lifestyle-related diseases. settings. Firstly, prioritisation: performing a mental Hospital, London. My work involves covering inpatient medical wards, in addition to working on the The famous German pathologist Rudolf Virchow triage of the tasks at hand is critical to determine admissions ward. said, ‘Medicine is a social science, and politics is what needs to be done now and what can wait. nothing else but medicine on a large scale,’ and I Secondly, resilience: I nurtured coping strategies saw this first-hand. coffee with the GPs. We were chatting about our for times of stress. The day before my first-year weekends when the senior partner came in, sat anatomy exam, when my capacity to revise was What has helped you through lockdown? down and said, ‘so what’s the deal with this new well and truly spent, I sat on the banks of the virus in China?’ The opinion of the doctors at the Cam for two hours to read a book (Jane Eyre, no QBeing able to go to work has been a blessing. time was well and truly split: some were worried, less). I did exactly the same at St Thomas’ after It certainly hasn’t been easy starting as a doctor some weren’t. The senior partner wolfed down a difficult shift, except this time I sat on a bench in the midst of the pandemic, but at least it has his coffee, sighed, and ominously declared ‘this next to the Thames (and the book was Where kept me occupied. The hours have been long but piece of RNA is going to spread like wildfire – and the Crawdads Sing). Thirdly, valuing diversity of I figured that I wasn’t really missing out on much it’s going to change the way we practice for good,’ opinion: my favourite thing about Trinity – and during lockdown, even on the weekend night shifts before leaving for his morning clinic. Looks like he Cambridge – is that if you ask two people a (except for Line of Duty). I’ve been able to stay was right. question, you’ll get ten different answers. Being involved with research by helping to write papers able to collaborate and work together in a multi- and review articles. Beyond that, books, exercise If not for the pandemic, where would you disciplinary team is key in medicine, and having a and trying to stay in touch with friends and family.

COVID-19: one year in year one COVID-19: Qbe now? variety of perspectives is incredibly useful when I’ve tried to improve my cooking skills too, but treating patients with complex medical and social that’s very much a work in progress… Some things would have stayed the same. I would problems, and when deciding on ceilings of care for still have been an FY1 at St Thomas’ working on the most critically ill. What have you missed most? acute medicine, although without COVID-19 there would’ve been a lot less respiratory failure and a lot QGosh, there’s so much. It’s everything I took How do you think the COVID-19 situation What was your situation when the world more diversity in the type of medical presentations for granted before: seeing my friends, travelling, will resolve itself? Qfirst became aware of COVID-19? (which has consequences for training). I felt the Q going to the gym, going out for a coffee and going Vaccines are clearly key to resolving the pandemic. to see plays. Most of all, I miss my family who are in I was in the final year of medical school on GP impact of the pandemic particularly forcefully in summer 2020. My final year of university was cut But vaccines alone aren’t enough: there needs Manchester – I’ve not seen them in person for over placement in a small village east of Bury St short, I missed out on my graduation ceremony to be ongoing surveillance, testing, tracing, a year. After the restrictions are lifted, I’ve promised Edmunds. I had finished my written finals in early (which would’ve been on my birthday) and I isolating and social distancing, with measures to myself to never turn down an opportunity to go December 2019 and I was still riding the post- couldn’t say goodbye to my friends. Instead, I control the spread established internationally. out… let’s see whether that lasts when I’m on my

finals high. The news of the virus grumbled in the was recruited into the NHS early as an ‘interim’ Controlling transmission of the virus in one A&E rotation. © ISTOCK.COM/ IUZA STUDIOS background over Christmas and the New Year, doctor and spent most of that summer living in a country is inadequate if the virus spreads in other but I most distinctly remember a conversation hotel next to St Thomas’ where we’d been granted places, creating genetic cauldrons for new strains on a Monday morning in early February over accommodation. Very surreal, looking back. to develop (and potentially ‘escape’ the vaccine © ISTOCK.COM/ LOOPS7

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Dr Rupert Beale (1996) How do you think the COVID-19 situation Virology Consortium that’s looking at what makes Qwill resolve itself? SARS-CoV-2 variants more dangerous, it’s really I arrived at Trinity to read Medical Sciences in 1996, followed by the MB/PhD course at Cambridge interesting and very complicated. that afforded some respite from the Gradgrind nature of medical education. I was lucky enough to be The best way to manage the pandemic would have been to copy those countries that mounted in the late, great Michael Neuberger’s (1971) lab in the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) What has helped you through lockdown? a determined effort not to let the virus get out for my PhD. of control in the first place. It’s not too late to QLong walks, surreptitious drinks with learn this lesson. Fortunately the vaccines are colleagues, writing a series of semi-cathartic After further medical training I was appointed as extremely effective, and it’s possible to control the articles for the London Review of Books, the odd bit Clinical Lecturer in renal medicine and immunology pandemic by using a combination of public health of cricket, a bunch of people I sing with (especially at Cambridge. Kidneys are often subjected to measures (including vaccination) to minimise Rachael Beale, (1995). immune attack, and so I was able to explore my transmission of the virus. The big question is interest in viruses and immunity in Felix Randow’s whether evolving variants will remain susceptible What have you missed most? lab (again in the LMB). I discovered something to the vaccines. If we can make vaccines that target QChoir and subsequent Sunday lunch at a strange about how influenza interacts with our the virus in all its potential forms then it might mediocre pub. cells’autophagy (self-eating) machinery. This become a bit like measles – we largely eliminate forms the basis of my ongoing research, first in the it from the population and only have to deal with Division of Virology in Cambridge, and subsequently sporadic outbreaks. What’s perhaps more likely www.crick.ac.uk/research/find-a-researcher/ in the Francis Crick Institute, London where I was for the next few years is that the virus evolves rupert-beale appointed the first Clinician Scientist Group Leader to escape partially the current vaccines, and we Read Rupert’s London Review of Books articles: and I run the Cell Biology of Infection Laboratory. have to re-vaccinate with updated vaccines every www.lrb.co.uk year or two. I’m part of the ‘G2P-UK’ National What was your situation when the world We got great assistance from Public Health Qfirst became aware of COVID-19? Wales, bulk chemicals from Canada, special favours from airline companies and very little The Francis Crick Institute is the UK’s flagship sleep. Developing these tests to the highest COVID-19: one year in year one COVID-19: medical research institute, situated next to St standard became a collective obsession. We Pancras Station. By late January 2020 colleagues published all our protocols and assisted other labs Dr Bronya Gorney (1998) at The Worldwide Influenza Centre, based at the as quickly as we could. A ‘Lighthouse’ lab asked I am a GP (NHS), GP Appraiser, Preventicum doctor, Coach, Trainer in Coaching and Communication Crick, were seriously alarmed. I was in touch with a technical question on a Sunday lunchtime, we skills, and mother of two monkeys intent on mischief. colleagues at Edinburgh and other universities in returned them a comprehensive answer within the UK who assumed already that we were about fifteen minutes. We were able to repay our debt to undergo a very serious pandemic, and we to Public Health Wales by sending them a reagent started to formulate plans to study the new virus. they’d run out of due to failure of commercial What was your situation when the world I miss seeing my patients face-to-face for so many We obtained a culture of the virus and started to supply by making it ourselves and sticking it on a Qfirst became aware of COVID-19? reasons. The energy that flows through me when I develop simple models to study its cell biology. connect deeply with a patient, has been my deep motorbike. The party line was that it couldn’t be On 31 December 2019, when the initial report of a well of strength throughout a demanding career. done. We did it. new SARS virus was being delivered to the W.H.O., It soon became apparent that academic study That vibrant inter-relational spark has reliably I was delivering my own life-changing, paradigm- of the virus was not what was imminently needed. fuelled me through years of interminable clinics, There was a lot to be excited about reading shift-inducing, second child. Oliver was born into a A catastrophe was developing on our doorstep in the energy from each interaction bouncing off the Medical Sciences at Trinity in the late 90s. John room packed with expertise; brilliant obstetricians, central London, and we had to help as best walls and injecting me with renewed zest for my Brown (1974), our Director of Studies, expected paediatricians, anaesthetists and midwives, who we could. next encounter. us to go far beyond the taught course (ignoring as stabilised and looked after us calmly, professionally best we could the pettifogging requirements of the and with genuine kindness. Tell us about the work you’re doing in the General Medical Council) and instead to grapple Sitting alone, phone call after phone call, feels fight against COVID-19 and did what you both flat and alarming. I can’t help but think of all Q with the experimental basis for our understanding Receiving such world-class medical care from an learnt at Trinity help in any way? the physical pathology I’ve picked up over the years of those branches of physiology and pathology NHS I feel passionately about, was emotional and In March 2020, COVID-19 was rife amongst hospital that fired our imagination. Enthusiasts of heart-warming. Little did I know then, how this staff, many of whom were mildly symptomatic but immunology volunteered for an extra two hour sense of pride in my medical colleagues would still working, being ineligible for a test. The Crick supervision from Doug Fearon (e2001) every week. be a feeling I would repeatedly return to over the decided to set up a testing pipeline, and to achieve Doug had been making immunological discoveries following year. this pulled together the best and most determined of seminal importance since the 70s at Johns team of scientists I have ever encountered. Within Hopkins and Harvard. We would explore the latest If not for the pandemic, where would you this team I was tasked with working out how to get publications and be taught the old, half-forgotten Qbe now? swab samples of a horrifyingly wide variety into a observations that underpinned what everyone If not for the pandemic, I would be in almost exactly standardised molecular test. Visiting the local NHS assumed to be true. ‘That’s the party line’, Doug the same place, but doing things rather differently. laboratories revealed the extent to which authorities would say, ‘but…’. I’m now back from maternity leave, working as an in the UK had messed this up. They were running NHS GP again but I’ve returned to a vastly different out of everything, and it was clear we would have to If not for the pandemic where would you landscape in Primary Care. Most of my clinics make our own tests in such a way as to not compete Qbe now? are now by telephone appointment and I only see with the NHS for scarce resources. On holiday. patients in person if it’s necessary to examine them. 22 The Fountain | Issue 30 23 © ISTOCK.COM/ MONGKOLCHON AKESIN Trinity treasures

Wrens in the Wren: first edition of Alfred Tennyson’s The Window with music by Arthur Sullivan. Library Graduate Trainee Vicky Gray reveals her ‘hidden’ Trinity treasure.

Every year, the College recruits a with words by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. by the time the music was ready to be Library Graduate Trainee who assists Each of Tennyson’s poems is printed on published, Millais had already given up on the permanent staff in the day-to- its own, with Sullivan’s setting printed the project and sold his illustrations, and day running of the Library, all the opposite. Over eleven songs, the singer he had no intention of creating any new while benefiting from valuable work woos his love from her window as the ones. The title ‘The Loves of the Wrens’ experience and teaching opportunities seasons pass, undeterred by the bitter only appears on the cover, and is printed prior to seeking a formal qualification cold of winter and the long passage of inside as ‘The Songs of the Wrens’. by actually laying my hands on someone, as well as people have to effect change in this world. They will in librarianship. time. The eponymous wrens appear the non-verbal clues that alert me when someone is be the ones who uncover the creative solutions we around the window in the spring, and Tennyson came up to Trinity as an struggling. All of this can be missed over the phone. need to transform our society. With COVID-19, my traineeship has been the singer tries to match their song undergraduate in 1827, and the Library a lot quieter than usual, and I’ve spent to win over the ‘Queen of the Wrens’. holds several late 19th century copies However, the pandemic has also enabled a How do you think the COVID-19 situation less time with the special collections in He refers, of course, to the lady in of his poetry set to music, of which The staggering level of innovation. Qwill resolve itself? the Wren, but this has given me more the window, but we believe the title is Window is only one. The book provides time to explore the closed-access equally applicable to the Wren Library! a small ‘window’ into the Library’s It would be easy in the UK to relax into some kind of Remote working has become essential for when stacks in the basement. These stacks treasures and curiosities that aren’t reassurance, that with an annual Covid vaccine and

COVID-19: one year in year one COVID-19: doctors (or worse still, multiple doctors) need contain a lot of material that was once The Window was Sullivan’s only attempt displayed upstairs in the Wren. some degree of ‘lockdown light’ each winter, we to isolate. The silver lining is how this allows me shelved in the Wren but has since moved at a song cycle, and predates his comic could be buoyed through this storm. to come home to do bedtime with my children, downstairs to make space. This includes operettas with W.S. Gilbert. Despite YOUR HISTORY! restarting my work once they’re asleep. It’s been a several Victorian musical scores which, successes such as HMS Pinafore and However, to really contain this virus, we need a game changer for me as a working mother. though not especially rare or of especial The Pirates of Penzance, Gilbert and The College Archivists preserve much broader and more inclusive vision as to how provenance, are still beautiful books in Sullivan’s relationship was notoriously and collect records documenting we see ourselves and how we define our networks. Tell us about the work you’re doing in the their own right. fraught, as Sullivan considered a and illustrating the history of Trinity fight against COVID-19, and did what you lot of the silliness of Gilbert’s libretti and the lives of its members. We Q In a globalised society, our fate has become learnt at Trinity help in any way? One such book that has caught my eye beneath him. This seems to have been are keen to hear from alumni who intertwined with almost everyone else’s on the recently is an original 1871 copy of The something of a pattern: Tennyson, then have records which they would be My main work in the fight against Covid includes planet. SARS CoV 2 has become a globe-trotter Window; or, The Songs of the Wrens – an Poet Laureate, was at first perfectly happy to donate to the College for managing acutely sick patients, but now seems on steroids, connecting us to places we could English song cycle by Arthur Sullivan happy to team up with Sullivan in permanent preservation. more focused on the fallout from this pandemic; never imagine. 1867, but he later felt untangling the mangled and wrangled lives left in We are interested in a wide range that the poems were not the wake of this viral tsunami. Covid helpfully highlights the ‘inconvenient of material, particularly items serious enough and the truth’, that unless we actively protect vulnerable that illustrate the everyday life of project would damage his Even before Covid hit our shores, mental health populations in countries who can’t afford a Fellows and students: photographs reputation. Sullivan had to was already sliding into an abyss of ever greater vaccine roll out, we will continue to be impacted of rooms, sports, performances, harangue him to hand over need and increasingly scant resources. However, by a virus that has endless opportunity to evolve and social occasions; club and the poems so that he could I’ve never witnessed this intensity of need before and mutate. society records; letters, diaries, set them to music, and the and it’s especially severe in our teenagers. So many reminiscences, and posters, films, project eventually took four of them are in violent distress. The invitation is for us to step into a more evolved and recordings. years to complete. and connected global dynamic. So aside from more If you have items you think might We need much better conversations about what it healthcare resources, what we really need is more What immediately struck be of interest, please email us at means to look after our mental health. Few of my courageous and compassionate leadership. me about this book is [email protected] or call us patients have ever considered how to ensure their the gorgeous front cover, on +44 (0)1223 338488. minds and emotional selves survive, let alone thrive. What has helped you through lockdown? embossed in black and QNaked bottoms waddling round the garden gold, showing a latticed We need to help our young people reclaim back searching for snails. window surrounded by their self-confidence, shatter the hot house that leaves and wrens. This thrusts a negative body image onto so many, and What have you missed most? was supposed to be one help each individual discover novel ways to bring of many illustrations in the more joy into the world. QSharing food with people I love, dancing in book drawn by the eminent fields with people I’ve only just met, and celebrating Pre-Raphaelite John What I have learnt from Trinity is the mesmerising life surrounded by loved ones. Connection, Everett Millais. However, brilliance and phenomenal capacity that young connection, connection! 24 The Fountain | Issue 30 25

Meet Areeg, a fourth year engineer who is aiming to build a better world. Have a break with technologist Dr Amanda Talhat, who is delivering solutions for Nestlé. © SIR CAM ‘I think you can study the first time (!!) are memories I will hold forever. I at Cambridge!’ am a proud College mother of six, who have grown I lead the Department I got involved with the TEA and stayed involved ‘Cool, what’s that?’ to head the TCSU, the African Caribbean and of Technology at Nestlé as I left Cambridge. I am now Co-Chair with Islamic Societies, and the Trinity May Ball – call me Research in Switzerland. Christie Marrian (1970), and we are supported by This is a conversation the Mother of Leaders! We work on early stage a fantastic alumni committee. The TEA is always that I had with Mr. research projects pleased to welcome new members so if you are Spence, my A Level The engineering department has also been a delivering technical reading this and would like to join us, please get headmaster in Kenya. huge part of my life here. The closest place to my solutions that are relevant in touch! Until then, I was unaware of possible options heart, its library, is best known for the beanbags for multiple businesses, beyond studying in a public university there or my that provide brilliant naps in between struggling which are then further developed in the Nestlé Trinity, in addition to giving me a great education, birthplace, Egypt. His belief in me led me to work through Tripos. The collaborative space is where I Product Technology Centres into a specific product also gave me a lot of transferable skills. I can think tirelessly to pursue Engineering at Cambridge. I made most of my friendships, and hopping from application for launch later. I lead a team of 50 critically, negotiate, motivate, lead, and endure high wanted to see science-backed policy and not the one office to the next to chat to different members – we are mostly physicists and mathematicians stress because of these skills. My advice to current empty-promise politics I grew up with. While this of staff while procrastinating on work helped me but there are one or two chemical engineers like students is to make the most of your time there, inspired me to apply to Cambridge, the Beacon feel like I had a community I could rely on. My myself! Day-to-day, I am Project Lead on all the whether that is in your studies or in your extra- University Scholarship enabled me to make it here. biggest character development was moving to the projects from the department, which range from curricular activities. Think of it as building muscles It is aimed at African students with leadership silent section of the library come exam-time. Co- plant-based to new technologies. I am also the link that will come in useful when you enter work. potential who will create positive social change. founding the Women in Engineering Society in my between Nestlé Research and our dairy and ice Secondly, find yourself a mentor and really invest in Throughout my time here, I have tried to embody final year felt like the best way of contributing to our cream businesses. that relationship and, in time, mentor others also. the principles of the Beacon: taking people with department – helping inspire and connect fellow Finally, be kind to yourself. Your self-esteem should you and making a difference now. women in engineering. I was first introduced to research in the food not be solely defined by your achievements in life, industry during my PhD when I studied the impact and you are not a failure if you don't have your life Arriving as a wide-eyed Fresher (and missing Great In the Beacon spirit of taking people with you, I of origin and processing conditions on cocoa plans figured out before graduation. Be you and Gate that first time), I didn’t know what awaited have tried to make Cambridge more accessible. butter, a key ingredient in chocolate. My PhD was be happy. me. I was suddenly very aware of being a woman in Organising the first student-led access event in the partially sponsored by Nestlé Product Technology a male-dominated subject, and a person of colour engineering department for students from under- Centre in Confectionery in York, and this gave who is visibly Muslim. Fears of fitting in were very represented backgrounds meant the world to me. me the opportunity to network with the experts Join the TEA! strong. However, I found friends-turned-family and I mentored applicants, home and international, and product developers who are responsible for Sign up via the Alumni Associations web page compassionate staff – a huge shoutout to my Tutor, and worked with the Admissions Office to make some of our most recognisable brands, such as www.trin.cam.ac.uk/alumni/associations/ Professor Adrian Poole – who embraced me for Cambridge a reality for other African undergrads. KitKat and Aero. After my PhD, I tried consulting who I am rather than who I ‘represent’. Very soon, Amazingly, I was approached by a Fresher in my but moved back into food & drink in time for all the Trinity and Cambridge became home. Late nights third year who was one of my shadowing scheme exciting innovations and challenges in the industry, in the library, laughter echoing through Nevile’s mentees two years before! In the spirit of making such as plant-based products, sustainable Court, sunsets on the Backs and seeing snow for a difference now, I was part of the founding packaging, and functional food. committee of May Week Alternative. Since our © AREEGEMARAH founding in 2018, we have put giving at the heart of I matriculated in 2006 and read Natural Sciences, May Week celebrations and raised over £200,000 but what really stuck with me was all the extra- for the Against Malaria foundation to help protect curricular activities beyond my course. I remember hundreds of thousands of people. being overwhelmed by choice at the Chaplain’s Squash in the first week, and getting dragged to a These experiences are what I reflect on now that badminton training by the linguist who lived above I am close to graduating. I am grateful for the me. Looking back, I was terrible at it but stayed photographs that I have taken along this journey – committed to the club as I loved being a part of a a comfort, particularly during this challenging last team. I had to focus more on my studies during year. Losing my dad to Covid in 2020 has turned ARDO , Sweet Rachel by my PhD. I learnt then that I was someone who my life upside down. However, inspired by my dad’s needed to see how my work translates into the real impact during his life – putting a smile on children’s world to stay motivated, and that once motivated, faces through cleft-lip and palate surgeries – I aim I persevere until we find a solution. This realisation to make the world a better place. I hope I made a has really helped me in delivering projects. start with Cambridge. During the 3rd year of my PhD I was invited to the Trinity Engineers’ Association (TEA) where I won a Thank you to Areeg for allowing us to reproduce poster prize. I was at a point of my studies where her photographs on the front and inside cover of I needed to decide on what to do in the future, A favourite of my photographs, bringing together so this magazine. You can see more of her beautiful TEA networking and mentoring evening October 2019, with and I had no idea. Peter Davidson (Engineering many aspects that are very Cambridge – the Corpus clock, photography on her Instagram account: three of our speakers. From left Dr Barnali Ghosh (1999), King’s Chapel and tourists – taken on my way to the 1973) became my mentor and over the years has Dr Rachel Cooke (1996) and Professor Joan Lasenby (1978) @the_afro_arab

STUDENT SPOT STUDENT (2017 Engineering) Emarah Ashraf Areeg engineering department! PROFILE ALUMNI (2006) Talhat Amanda Dr helped me build a solid career. To pay it forward, and me.

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A green haven

Tending Trinity’s 36 acres is no mean feat during the best of times. Head Gardener Tom Hooijenga reveals how his team has kept the gardens going and growing throughout an extraordinary year.

A team of 12 staff – my deputy, three held off from doing anything instantly, spots in Cambridge. Rejuvenating the senior gardeners and seven gardeners carefully considering our options. At a lawn, going the extra mile, and reaping – manage the gardens throughout the College Gardens Committee meeting the benefits this year really uplifted us, seasons, and that is quite a task even later in the year one of the Fellows said, especially as residents and visitors will in an ‘ordinary’ year. When COVID-19 ‘There have always been a few crocuses enjoy it every year too. emerged last spring we faced an underneath Newton’s tree, so any additional challenge; how could we keep chance you could extend the planting, Rejuvenation the gardens going while keeping the Tom?’ They all laughed, because they Throughout the pandemic it has been team as safe as possible? We needed know I’m mad about bulbs. So I thought, great to see the students, staff and to rethink how the team operated and ‘we could make quite a statement here’ Fellows who have been on site making where all of our facilities were based. and I ordered a bespoke mix of 20,000 the most of all of the different spaces, We split into two ‘bubbles’ of six so that pastel-coloured crocus bulbs from our with plenty of exercising and even if anyone fell ill the entire team would supplier in Holland. open-air tutorials. We have all enjoyed The College Gardens Committee We have recently introduced new Great areas to attract more insects and other not have to isolate, and we could keep watching nature taking its rightful place guides our development, and we meet Court bedding such as bananas and species, and to keep us all interlinked the gardens going. One bubble stayed Last autumn we began the rejuvenation again, not only the plants but wildlife twice a year to discuss plants, projects castor oil plants, which not only look so that wildlife can wander freely. in our compound in Queens’ Road work, bringing in extra soil to level as well – the birds and their song have and plans for the future. Another future good but can cope with the hotter and We are fortunate to be part of this while the other created a second hub everything off and rotovating twice to been far more prominent. This February, project that is in the planning stages drier summers. We are starting to do magnificent green strip running from over in a section of Adrian House in make it plantable. In September, we my team spent a happy hour recording is possibly planting an orchard on an that with the ‘big stuff’ too, planting Queens’ to past St John’s, and we must Burrell’s Field. We each had our own set decided to do the turf laying and bulb sightings for the RSPB’s annual Big area of the Paddocks, which would be more resilient trees such as eucalyptus nurture it for future generations. of tools because sharing was not safe, planting at the same time, so as one Garden Birdwatch. We spotted 19 visible from Garrett Hostel Lane. We because some species, including our and the bigger mowers and machinery team was putting in the bulbs and different species in that short time, would plant heritage varieties including pines, have struggled with recent So despite the extraordinary year we were sanitised between each use. It moving backwards the other team with Blue Tits being our most frequent apples, pears and greengages, let the successive hot summers. have all endured, the gardens continue was a logistical puzzle but, with no followed behind, laying the turf. It was feathered visitor. The gardens have been grass grow and plant wildflowers to to flourish, and we hope it will not be crossover between hubs and good team quite an operation but we pulled it off. essential to the wellbeing of the College attract bees, insects and wildlife, and Trinity sits in an important green too much longer now before we can communication, it worked. Everyone was commenting about the community and have been a green be as biodiverse as possible. Another corridor within the city and is a welcome you back again to explore. new lawn and I was thinking, ‘but you haven – uplifting and good for the soul. delicious benefit would be that our member of the Backs Committee, There is no greater pleasure for the Renewal don’t know what’s underneath this!’ chefs could use the fruit in Trinity comprising the Colleges that border gardens team than seeing the Trinity Just before the pandemic took hold, That was the big surprise this spring, Growth dishes, as they do with our Burrell’s the Cam. The Committee meets community together in our precious we had the ‘visit’ from protestors and and when the crocuses started flowering Despite coping with Covid and Field honey – Senior Gardener Tony annually, and a landscape architect green spaces, enjoying our work. Newton’s Lawn was destroyed. We it was one of the most photographed unexpected renewal projects, the team Harte is a beekeeper, looking after our advises us on our strategic plan to has been determined to keep making nine hives. protect our strip along the river. We © SARAH CLAYDON improvements too. Trinity aims to work together to continue making Read more about the team’s Big be as green and energy efficient as A Greener Future improvements with an immediate Garden Birdwatch: possible and, although it is still in the With the climate changing, we are also impact on the biodiversity of the area, www.trin.cam.ac.uk/news/ planning stages, we hope we will be having to adapt our planting schemes. such as creating wetter wilderness the-big-garden-birdwatch able to install solar panels on our tool and machinery shed roofs in the not Main image: Take a seat in a tranquil spot in the Fellows’ Garden. Below left to right: Planting the 20,000 crocus bulbs under Newton’s Lawn was too distant future. To cut down on noise painstaking work; up on the cherry picker with Senior Gardener Karen Wells for a spot of pruning; and castor oil and banana plants make a brilliant and fumes from equipment, we have backdrop in our Great Court planting.

invested in electrical equipment that © SARAH CLAYDON/DAVID ROSE/JOANNA COONEY runs off powerful batteries in backpacks, and we will be installing a charging station for these too. We also want to capitalise on the wetter autumns and winters we are having and put the rain from the heavens to good use, so we are installing a 23,000 litre water storage tank on the nursery site. We will harvest the rainwater, pump it out to our The Newton Lawn crocus carpet in full bloom. glasshouses and be self-sufficient. 28 The Fountain | Issue 30 29 © HUMAN ORIGINS PROGRAM, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION © HILDE JENSEN © UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN By Professor Simon Baron-Cohen (e1995), Fellow in Experimental Psychology and Director, Cambridge Autism Research Centre

Autism and Invention

Is there a link between autism and the capacity for invention? I hope to lay out the evidence that shows some links. But first, when did invention begin?

It is clear that our hominid ancestors learning, forming an association © NATURE PICTURE LIBRARY / ALAMY STOCK PHOTO could use simple stone tools. For between two items, A and B, with little example, Homo habilis and Homo sign of generative invention (Figure 1). erectus, who both lived 2 million years ago, used stone axes and hammers. But then, 70 to 100,000 years ago, And so could the Neanderthals who when Homo sapiens was on the scene, lived as recently as 40,000 years ago. the rate of inventions suddenly took But despite small changes in the design off and it’s been unstoppable ever of their tools, for millions of years since. Suddenly we see the capacity there was little evidence for generative for generative invention, not just invention – the ability to invent in inventing once, but inventing non-stop. multiple ways, not just as a one-off. And A cognitive revolution had occurred in if we look at non-human species alive the human brain. today, a lot of animals can use simple Figure 4: The earliest jewellery, 75,000 years old. Figure 5: The earliest musical instrument, 40,000 years old. stone tools. Chimpanzees, for example, So what was this cognitive revolution? can use a rock as a hammer to crack There were two new circuits in the Figure 2: Many non-human animals can use © WIKIMEDIA a nut (Figure 2), and crows can drop a human brain and the first of these this we repeat our observations over then I make a specific sound. Butif I simple tools. stone to raise the water level to be able was the Systemizing Mechanism. This and over again. And once confirmed, we blow down the hollow bone, and cover to reach a worm. Both the behaviour allowed humans to look for special something to it, then I get an outcome. then can vary it by experimenting with two holes, then I make a different sound. of other animals and our hominid patterns in the world, that I call if-and- The Systemizing Mechanism allowed us the if or the and. If we produce a new Our ancestor had invented a new ancestors can be parsimoniously then patterns. These are the basis of to analyse the world to find such patterns pattern, that is an invention. I borrow complex tool, a musical instrument, and explained as the result of associative any system. If I take something, and I do and confirm that they hold true. To do this terminology from the 19th century a system of sounds we call music. logician George Boole (Figure 3), who analysed the structure of thought. And 40,000 years ago we see the cave

© DIDIER DESCOUENS (CC-BY-SA-4.0) paintings, and by 25,000 years ago we We can infer the existence of the see sculptures. By 12,000 years ago we Systemizing Mechanism in the modern see the invention of agriculture. If I take human brain because 75,000 year ago, a tomato seed, and I plant it in moist soil, we see the first jewellery. If I make a hole then I get a tomato plant. The invention in each shell, and thread a string through of agriculture transformed our diet, our each hole, then the shells will form a health, and our lifestyles. And we are still necklace (Figure 4). And 71,000 years inventing unstoppably today, a recent ago, we see the first bow and arrow. example being the invention of a vaccine. Figure 3: George Boole. Again, the same if-and-then algorithm: If If I take the genes for Covid’s spike I attach an arrow to a stretch fibre, and protein, and put them into a harmless imagine what someone else might release the tension in the fibre, then the virus, then I have a vaccine against Covid. think or feel – that they might think we arrow will fly. are beautiful or of high status, or we But let’s go back to the first jewellery make jewellery to give as a gift, because Tool made by H. habilis Tool made by H. erectus Tool made by H. Neanderthalis And 40,000 years ago, we see the 75,000 years ago because the we can think that someone might 2.1m to 1.5 yrs 2.1m to 250K yrs 300k to 40K yrs earliest musical instrument that has Systemizing Mechanism explains how feel happy. The evolution of empathy ever been found: a flute made from a we could make the jewellery, but the enabled a whole raft of complex social hollow bone (Figure 5). If I blow down empathy circuit explains why we made interactions, including deception and Figure 1: Simple stone tools made by our hominid ancestors, ranging from 2.1m to 40K years ago. the hollow bone, and cover one hole, it. We wear jewellery because we can referential communication. 30 The Fountain | Issue 30 31 31 Trinity Cryptic Crossword No.7 Let’s go back to our big question: genomics company 23andMe, and is there a link between autism and found that the genetic variants invention? Anecdotally, many inventors associated with high systemizing Trinity Summer 2021 by Encota show a high level of autistic traits. overlap with the genetic variants Thomas Edison, who famously invented associated with autism. So some of the Visit The Fountain web page for a word version of the the first electric lightbulb, invented non- genes that cause autism also cause crossword: www.trin.cam.ac.uk/alumni/publications/ stop. As a teenager he was obsessed talent in pattern recognition. This leads the-fountain with Morse code, a system of patterns, to a prediction: that autism might be and he even named his children Dot more common in places like Silicon What’s your brain type ACROSS and Dash. His wife moved a mattress Valley. We went to the Dutch city of We recently built an online 1 Primarily blinking your eyes and blocking your ears for into his workshop so that he could carry Eindhoven, where one third of jobs are tool to enable people to so long (3-3) on inventing and experiment day and in IT and which is home to the Institute take surveys at home, so 4 Green light / lamp protects damaged bus (6,2) night. Anecdotally, many autistic people of Technology, much like MIT, and where that they can contribute 9 This acid test combined with neat mixture could yield have a talent at pattern recognition and the Philips Factory has been for over 100 to our research. We will last-minute result (6) be able to use this data to systemizing. And Max Park is autistic, years. 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