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Magdalene Matters the Newsletter of Magdalene College Cambridge COMMENT from the MAGDALENE MAT TERS Development Director November 2014 | issue 40 MAGDALENE MATTERS the newsletter of Magdalene College Cambridge COMMENT from the MAGDALENE MAT TERS Development Director CONTENTS November 2014 | Issue 40 Dear Member, A Facelift for Magdalene 3 The new academic year is well under way as I write Fellows’ News 4–5 and our freshers have already experienced the icy rain and wind Cambridge is so well known for. As Magdalene in America 6–7 memories of garden parties fade, the ‘Green Man’ pictured on the front cover vividly illustrates the Coastal Floods 8–9 autumnal feel of the College gardens. The ‘Green Man’ by Bevis Sale (younger son of Arthur Sale) was one of Insert: ANNUAL DONORS’ REPORT the College’s Millennium Projects and is situated in the A View From Asia: The New Normal 10 –11 Fellows’ Garden on Monk’s Walk, at the opposite end to the statue of Mary Magdalene. College News 12–13 The students, Fellows and visitors to Magdalene have Sir Christopher Wray 14 been greeted this term by the refurbished brickwork and the mellow cream stone of the restored frontage of the The Festival of Sound 15 College on Magdalene Street. The gates dating back to 1585 have also been repaired and look as splendid as Forthcoming Events & Reunions 16 they must have done in the 16th century. More about this important renovation work can be found opposite. Magdalene Matters is published by the Alumni & Development Office, Our work in connecting our Members to Magdalene twice yearly, in Michaelmas and Easter terms. continues and a great number of you joined us for The views expressed in this newsletter do not necessarily represent the events in College, in London, and elsewhere, greeting views of Magdalene College Cambridge. the Master in a host of different venues. The warm Photos on the front cover and below by Roxanne Vose. welcome we receive wherever we go is testament to the affection many of you have for Magdalene. One of our alumni, Barbara Yu Fa (1995), hosted a mini ‘Magdalene Open Day’ for aspiring undergraduates at her home in Singapore; Meng Han Kuok (1997) arranged a dinner for more than 20 alumni in Singapore despite not being able to attend himself; David Thompson (1972) held a luncheon for dozens of Magdalene Members at his home in Shropshire and Henry Pang (1986) organised a wonderful dinner for around 40 Magdalene men and women in Hong Kong. We are grateful to them for their invaluable assistance and to all of you who took the time to attend these occasions, thank you. Details of all future events can be found on our website at www.magdalenecambridge.com and on the back page of this publication. Over 2000 Members and their guests attended one of our events during the last academic year and I hope you might be persuaded to join us during the coming year! CORINNE LLOYD (2010), EDITOR The Magdalene Gates. [email protected] 2 MAGDALENE MATTERS A Facelift for MAGDALENE by steven morris (2007), senior bursar The buildings forming the main entrance to the College and facing directly onto Magdalene Street have been subject to modifications over the centuries and yet they maintain their original fifteenth and sixteenth century architectural feel, with the gates themselves dating from 1585. No significant restoration works on this principal element of the College’s estate has taken place for fifty years when during 1964–1965 the chimney stacks were removed, new window frames were added and major re-pointing of the masonry was undertaken, superintended by the architect S E Dykes Bower. Since then the brick façade and stone window surrounds have steadily become dirty and suffered from erosion. Likewise, the oak gates looked weary and were beginning to show serious signs of weather damage, particularly towards the lower level, and the hinges were starting to fail. Entering the College on a daily basis meant that the need to undertake some important restorative works pricked one’s conscience regularly and thus a two-year plan to rectify the decades of wear and tear was devised. The first phase, which was Top left clockwise: awaiting restoration; the hand carved stone sections of the window carried out this past summer, involved frame; the College restored; the façade clad in scaffold during the facelift. the temporary removal of the gates and transportation to a local joinery repaired by expert hand-carving of they have surpassed expectations as firm’s workshop. A local stonemason the new timber sections, and the the façade once more looks a proud was commissioned to clean carefully bricks and stonework were slowly and beautiful part of the College and and repair the brick and stone façade. and thoroughly cleaned using great the gates are again a handsome feature This led to the temporary closure of care and a specialist machine hired with their neo-classical stone surround. the section of the pavement running by the stonemason. In addition, new along the length of the College façade sections of stone were also hand- Looking ahead, phase two of the as it was necessary to scaffold the carved at the stonemason’s workshop. project will involve the extensive building throughout the project. The restoration, and where necessary, extent of weathering to the lower It was difficult to imagine and indeed replacement of the stone plinth that parts of the gates was worse than first a concern as to what the final results runs the length of the façade at ground expected but the gates were carefully might be but we are delighted to report level and is planned for summer 2015. 3 MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE FELLOWS’ NEWS New Official Fellows Addenbrooke’s Hospital. Clinically, his went on to a post-doctoral fellowship WALID KhALED main interest is in the acute critical at the University of Toronto before PhD is a Lecturer care of polytrauma and in particular, joining the Cambridge Department in Cancer Biology severe neurotrauma patients. He of Psychology in 2012. Alex’s work at the Department also has a background in prehospital has been featured in numerous media of Pharmacology. immediate care and retrieval outlets, including BBC, Time, CNN, Following his medicine. Before medicine, Ari and Discovery Magazine. PhD with Prof. Christine Watson, studied Natural Sciences and obtained Department of Pathology, Cambridge, his PhD studying low dimensional Junior Research Fellows he was awarded a Junior Research magnetic structures at the Cavendish YIXIN WAN has been elected a Fellowship at King’s College (2008– Laboratory. His research interests Junior Research Fellow in Applied 2012). In 2009 he joined the Wellcome include applications of computing, Mathematics. HANNAH MALONE Trust Sanger Institute to work with Dr. statistical and mathematical modelling has been elected to a Lumley Junior Pentao Liu. During his postdoctoral techniques to critical illness. Research Fellowship. JAN SBIERSKI research he worked on the connection has been elected to a Thomas Nevile between cell fate regulation and AlEKSANDR Research Fellowship in Mathematics. breast cancer development. In 2014, KOGAN PhD FRANCISCO BELTRÁN is the Walid was awarded the prestigious is a University first Deakin Junior Research Fellow Cancer Research UK (CRUK) Career Lecturer in the in Economics. Establishment Award. This 6-year Department award will allow Dr. Khaled to of Psychology Our new Bye Fellows this year are identify and study the cellular and and is the director of the Cambridge SAM BAYLISS who is a PhD student molecular characteristics of breast Prosociality and Well-being in the Optoelectronics Group at the cancer heterogeneity with the aim of Laboratory. Alex’s research interests Cavendish Laboratory and OlIVIA developing novel therapeutic targets. are broadly centered on the biological, MAclEOD, a third-year PhD student contextual, cultural, and experiential in the Department of Biochemistry. ARI ERCOLE PhD is a Consultant forces that shape human kindness and The new Teaching Bye-Fellows are Anaesthetist and Neurointensivist at well-being. Having studied at Berkeley, MARIA UBIALI, an Italian postdoc in the Neurosciences Critical Care Unit, then the University of Hong Kong, he the High Energy Physics group at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics jointly with the Cavendish Laboratory and ANNJA Professor James Raven: ‘Bookscape’ NEUMANN, a research associate of the Schnitzler Digital Edition Project at In this book, Professor James Raven moves bibliographical history to new the Department of German and Dutch. offers fresh perspectives on the early encounters with historical ideas of modern and eighteenth-century book place, space and memory. Parnell Fellow trade in London. He uses a range of JANE OhlMEYER is Erasmus Smith’s new illustrative and topographical Professor of Modern History, the evidence to reconstruct the founding Vice President for Global communities of printers, publishers Relations at Trinity College, Dublin and booksellers, their working and a Member of the Royal Irish practices and the changes brought Academy. She is an expert on the New to different neighbourhoods. The British and Atlantic Histories and book is an extension to his Panizzi has published 11 books on a number lectures given at the British Library of themes in early modern Irish and in 2010 (the Master will be giving British history. She will be giving her the Panizzis in 2016). Lavishly Parnell Lecture this term on Monday illustrated with maps and prints 17th November at 5.15pm in Cripps and watercolour sketches, the book Auditorium. All are welcome. 4 MAGDALENE MATTERS FIFTY YEARS AND COUNTING... Celebration lunch for Dr Reynolds and Professor Field. DR PETER REYNOLDS and PROFESSOR JOHN FIELD awarded his ScD in 2001. Professor Field holds an Honorary celebrated their 50th anniversaries as Fellows on 1st October Doctorate from Lulea University of Technology where there 2014.
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