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CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE · CAMBRIDGE The Letter Michaelmas 2018 · No. 97 Cover photo: The Hall, following the redecoration of Summer 2018. Photo: Elizabeth Abusleme. The Letter (formerly Letter of the Corpus Association) Michaelmas 2018 No. 97 Corpus Christi College Cambridge Corpus Christi College The Letter michaelmas 2018 Editors Stuart Laing Paul Davies Peter Carolin Brian Hazleman Peter Martland Assisted by John Sargant Linda Muncaster Marie Compain Contact The Editors The Letter Corpus Christi College Cambridge cb2 1rh [email protected] Production Designed by Dale Tomlinson ([email protected]) Typeset in Arno Pro and Cronos Pro Printed by Lavenham Press, Lavenham, Suffolk on 90gsm Sovereign Silk (Forest Stewardship Council certified) The Letter on the web http://www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/alumni/publications/letter News and Contributions Members of the College are asked to send to the Editors any news of themselves, or of each other, to be included in The Letter, and to send prompt notification of any change in their permanent address. Cover photo: The Hall, following the redecoration of Summer 2018. Photo: Elizabeth Abusleme. 2 michaelmas 2018 The Letter Corpus Christi College Contents The Society Page 5 Domus 9 The College Year Bursary matters 11 Leckhampton life 12 College Staff 14 Development and Communications 15 The Chapel 16 College Music 18 The Parker Library 20 The Taylor Library 21 Features, addresses and a recollection The John Mere Commemoration Sermon (The Rt Rev’d Andrew Watson) 22 The theatre of New Court (Peter Carolin) 29 The Commemoration of Benefactors Address (Stuart Laing) 39 Forty Years’ Service (Steve Symonds, Michael Sutcliffe and Neil Taylor) 43 Then and Now(Lucy Hughes) 46 The Fellowship News of Fellows 49 Visiting Fellowships (Robert Hill, Lee Ann Brown) 51 Fellows’ publications 56 Research Associates List of Research Associates 60 Embryonic stem cells make cell fate choice (Maria Rostovskaya) 61 Postgraduates Viral latency: how herpesviruses stay with us for life (Elizabeth Elder) 63 Slavery and Nature in the Antebellum American South (Lindsey Walters) 64 Approved for PhD 66 continued on page 4 3 Corpus Christi College The Letter · Contents michaelmas 2018 Prizes and Awards 68 JCR and MCR JCR President’s report 74 JCR Welfare Officer’s report 75 The 2018 MCR Committee report 75 Societies Lewis Society of Medicine 77 The Fletcher Players 78 Nicholas Bacon Law Society 79 The Bene’t Club 81 Pelican Poets and Writers Society 81 Cambridge Footlights 82 Cambridge Shorts 83 Staff Choir 83 Sports clubs Corpus Blues 85 The Corpus Challenge 86 Mixed Lacrosse 87 The Boat Club 87 Squash 89 Men’s Football 89 MCR Football 89 Hockey 90 Rugby 90 Ladies Netball 91 Cricket 91 Lawn Tennis 92 Swimming 93 Alumni Alumni Letters 94 News of Alumni 97 Alumni Publications 103 Alumni events and the Corpus Association 104 Beldam and MacCurdy Dinners 106 Dining and Guest Room Privileges 107 In Memoriam 109 End piece 144 4 michaelmas 2018 The Society · The Letter Corpus Christi College The Society( as on 1 October 2018) Master Professor Christopher Kelly BA(Hons) (Sydney), PhD, FSA Professor of Classics and Ancient History Fellows Dr Christopher Brookes MA, PhD Tutor for Advanced Students, College Teaching Officer in Mathematics, Affiliated Lecturer in the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics Professor Christopher Howe MA, PhD, ScD, FLS Professor of Plant and Microbial Biochemistry Professor Alison Smith BSc (Bristol), MPhil, PhD Professor of Plant Biochemistry Professor Paul Hewett MA, PhD (Edinburgh) Food and Wine Steward, Professor of Observational Cosmology and Astrophysics Professor Mark Warner MA, PhD (London), FRS Professor of Theoretical Physics Dr Patrick Zutshi MA, PhD, FSA Graduate Tutor Professor Simon Godsill MA, PhD Tutor, Professor of Statistical Signal Processing Dr David Greaves MA, PhD Senior Lecturer in Computer Science Professor Emma Wilson MA, PhD Tutor, Professor of French Literature and the Visual Arts Dr Hugh Robinson MA, PhD Senior Lecturer in Neuroscience Dr Paul Kattuman MA (Calicut), PhD Reader in Economics, Judge Business School (2020) Dr David Sneath BSc (Ulster), PhD Graduate Tutor, Reader in the Anthropology of Political Economy Dr Keith Seffen MA, PhD Reader in Structural Mechanics Professor James Warren MA, MPhil, PhD Professor of Ancient Philosophy Ms Elizabeth Winter MA Director of Development & Communications Ms Sarah Cain MA MPhil College Teaching Officer in English, Fellow responsible for the Taylor Library Dr Michael Sutherland BSc, MSc, PhD (Toronto) Admissions Tutor, Tutor, College Teaching Officer in Physics,Affiliated Lecturer in the Department of Physics Professor Pietro Cicuta, Laurea (Milan), PhD Professor of Biological Physics Professor Barak Kushner BA, PhD (Princeton) Professor of East Asian History Dr Marina Frasca-Spada, Laurea (Rome), PhD Senior Tutor, Affiliated Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy and in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science Dr Shruti Kapila BA (Panjab), MA (New Delhi), PhD (London) Lecturer in History Mrs Susan Ainger-Brown MA FCMA CGMA FCMI Second Bursar and College Treasurer, GB Secretary Dr Philip Bearcroft MA, MB, BChir, FRCP, FRCR Clinical Director in the Department of Radiology, Associate Lecturer 5 Corpus Christi College The Letter · The Society michaelmas 2018 Professor John Carr BSc, MA, PhD (Liverpool) Vice President, Graduate Tutor, Professor of Plant Virology Dr Emma Spary MA, PhD Tutor, Reader in the History of Modern European Knowledge Professor Judy Hirst MA, DPhil (Oxford), FRS Dean of College, Professor of Biological Chemistry, Deputy Director of the MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Dr Jonathan Morgan MA (Oxford), PhD Tutor, Senior Lecturer in Law Dr Pontus Rendahl BA, MA (Lund), PhD (EUI, Florence) Reader in Economics Dr Ben Pilgrim MChem, DPhil (Oxford) Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 Research Fellowship, Fellow in Chemistry (2019) Dr Sarah Bohndiek MA, PhD (London) Graduate Tutor, Reader in Biomedical Physics Dr Ewan St John Smith MPharmacol (Bath), PhD Tutor, Custodian of the Corpus Chronophage Clock, Senior Lecturer in Pharmacology Dr Drew Milne MA, PhD Keeper of the Lewis Collection, Judith E Wilson Reader in Poetics Dr Jo Willmott MA, MPhil, PhD Tutor, Prælector Rhetorica, Keeper of the College Plate, Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of Classics (2019) Mr Tim Harvey-Samuel MA Bursar Dr Aaron Rapport BA (Northwestern), PhD (Minnesota) EB Secretary, Lecturer in Politics & International Studies The Revd Dr Andrew Davison MA, DPhil (Oxford), MA, PhD Starbridge Lecturer in Theology & Natural Sciences Dr Alexis Joannides MA, MB, BChir, MRCS, PhD Clinical Lecturer in Clinical Neurosurgery Dr Sophie Zadeh BA, MPhil, PhD Tutor, Fellow in Social Psychology (2020) Dr Vickie Braithwaite BSC (St Andrews), PhD Non-Stipendiary Research Fellow in Biological Sciences (2019) Dr John David Rhodes BA (Univ. of the South), MA (Columbia), PhD (New York) Warden of Leckhampton, Reader in Film Studies and Visual Culture Dr Anastasia Kisil MA, PhD Sultan Qaboos Research Fellow & College Lecturer in Mathematics (2019) Dr Fumiya Iida BEng, MEng (Tokyo), Dr Sc Nat (Zurich) Reader in Robotics Dr Rune Damgaard BSc, MSc, PhD (Copenhagen) Marie-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow (June 2019) Mr Nicholas Danks MA Fellow in Music (2023) Dr Felicity Hill, BA (Manchester), MA (London), PhD (UEA) Stipendiary Research Fellow in Medieval Studies (December 2018) Dr Sam Behjati MA, BM BCh (Oxon), PhD Wellcome Trust Intermediate Clinical Fellow; Non-Stipendiary Research Fellow in Medical Sciences (2019) Dr Sebastian Pike MChem, DPhil (Oxford) Herchel Smith Post-Doctoral Fellow; Fellow in Chemistry (November 2019) Professor David Abrahams BSc(Eng), PhD, DIC (London), AGCI N M Rothschild and Sons Professor of Mathematical Sciences and Director of the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences Dr Kai Ruggeri BA (North Central College), PhD (Queen’s University, Belfast) Fellow in Psychological and Behavioural Science (February 2020) Mr Felix Grey MChem (Oxford), MPhil William Cook Research Fellow and College Lecturer in Economics (2020) Dr Anastasia Berg BA (Harvard), MA, PhD (Chicago) Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Research Fellow in Philosophy (2020) Dr Harriet Soper BA, MSt (Oxford), PhD Stipendiary Research Fellow in Anglo-Saxon (2020) 6 michaelmas 2018 The Society · The Letter Corpus Christi College Dr Melle Kromhout BA, MA, PhD (Amsterdam) Non-Stipendiary Research Fellow in Music (2020) The Revd Dr Andrew Bigg BA (Leeds), MA (Sheffield), MPhys (Oxford), PhD (Durham) Chaplain Professor Christopher Hann BA (Oxford), PhD Fellow in Social Anthropology (2021) Dr Charles Read MA, MPhil, PhD British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellow; Hong Kong Link Research and Teaching Fellow in Modern British History (2021) Dr Andrew Sanger MA, LLM (LSE), PhD Lecturer in Law Professor Giulia Viggiani, Laurea (Naples), PhD (City University, London) Professor of Infrastructure Geotechnics Mr Thomas Nelson BA, MSt (Oxford) Stipendiary Research Fellow in Classics (2021) Dr John Biggins MA, PhD Lecturer in Applied Mechanics (Engineering) Dr Patrick Pietzonka BSc, MSc, PhD (Stuttgart) Research Associate, DAMPT; Non-Stipendiary Research Fellow in Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (2021) Dr Claudia Bonfio BSc (Siena), MSc (Padova), PhD (Trento) Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, MCR Laboratory of Molecular Biology; Non-Stipendiary Research Fellow in Molecular Biology (2021) Life Fellows Dr Michael Tanner MA, PhD Professor Christopher