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The Business Bug Master’S Message College News Optima Fitzwilliam College Newsletter | Issue 17 | Spring 2011 The Catalan Connection | Solar Paint | Medics and Vets Reunion | The Business Bug Master’s message College News No reader of Optima can fail to be aware of the challenges now facing us. The government’s cutting of the teaching budget by 80% has Duke of Edinburgh opens implications even for Cambridge. A tuition fee of £9,000 will cover Library & IT Centre barely half the cost of educating a student here. His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh KG KT, Chancellor of the University and Visitor of But this issue of Optima again the College, made his fifth visit to Fitzwilliam reminds us why we must sustain on 19 April 2010 to open the Library & IT our commitment to a collegiate Centre in the presence of benefactors, experience which is both Fellows, students and staff. The building intellectual and enriching in a wider Architects’ sense. It contains news items of featured on the cover of the importance, such as the completion Journal in March. of the modern Fitzwilliam in the shape of the formal opening of the This exciting new building, designed by new Library and IT Centre, while Edward Cullinan Architects, has recalling another historic moment – transformed the College’s academic our 1979 move to coeducation. provision and is popular with students. It refers to great public academic The Library features in the short film occasions such as the Foundation ‘The Perfect Desk’ commissioned by the Lecture. It underlines the University to show the role of college JET photographic JET international dimension of the libraries in the academic life of students. College’s past and present. And this The film can be watched online at issue also allows a glimpse of its www.fitz.cam.ac.uk/library flourishing musical life and of other student activities. WAR. Alumni Teacher None of these things would be possible without the support of What is it good for? Conference alumni, whether through the You tell us! This is just one of the essay titles in Telephone Campaign or in the form Fitzwilliam’s 2011 Land Economy essay Thirty alumni who are teachers of new endowments. Every reader competition. Why not encourage sixth-formers of attended the inaugural Alumni of Optima has a contribution of your acquaintance to enter next year’s Music, Teacher Conference which took some kind to make to the Classics and Ancient World or Land Economy place on 9 April. See the College Fitzwilliam of which they remain competitions? The first prize is £200. More details website or for more details email lifelong members. can be found at www.fitz.cam.ac.uk/admissions admissions@fitz.cam.ac.uk Professor Robert Lethbridge Master New Open Day Poster Contact the Editor Alison Carter [email protected] +44 1223 330784 Please feel free to contact me with contributions for the next issue Cover image: Graduation 2010: From left: Spike Jackson (Natural Sciences Physical 2006), Posters promoting Fitzwilliam open days went to 1200 schools in the UK in August. Chervin Laporte (Natural Sciences Physical The poster featured in eNEWS3 and drew this comment from Paul Teulon (Economics 1998) currently 2006); Dr Sara Owen, Dr Rosemary Horrox, Head of Student Recruitment at Oxford. “… clear, striking and inclusive.” Dr John Leigh, Professor David Cardwell. Open Day Poster by Cameron Design. For the latest College news, visit www.fitz.cam.ac.uk 2 Optima, Fitzwilliam College Newsletter Sand Economy Fellows’ In September a group of Fitzwilliam land economists travelled to Abu Dhabi, capital of research the United Arab Emirates, to see its extensive urban development projects at first hand. online Mary Young, acting Senior Tutor and Tom Phillips Phillips Tom Director of Studies in Land Economy, put the From left to right: Ran Wang, Mary Young, trip in context. “As it plans for continued Three Fitzwilliam Fellows had their Aanya Madhani at Sheikh Zayed Grand growth, Abu Dhabi is engaging in urban work featured in the November Mosque. Mary Young, Acting Senior Tutor planning on an eye-popping scale and at issue of the University’s Magazine commented: “Our guide was a student from astonishing speed; the contrast with our Research Horizons. Read about Zayed University, a vibrant young woman who embodied the educated female Emirati of the traditional post-industrial democratic Professor David Cardwell’s 21st century, combining knowledge of and planning process makes it an ideal subject superconductors, Dr Bhaskar Vira’s respect for her heritage with a very modern, ecosystem research, and Professor outward-looking approach to the world.” for land economists to study.” Nigel Slater’s work to help babies who catch HIV from their mothers. The group, hosted by women-only Zayed University in an exchange facilitated by All online at: Dr Christopher Brown, Director of the International College at ZU, had the opportunity to www.fitz.cam.ac.uk/news attend classes and enter discussion with students there. The students paid towards their flights but the balance was made up by contributions from the Student Opportunities Fund. Ken Dearsley (Economics 1965), formerly London Dinner Secretary of the Fitzwilliam Society and who is currently working in Abu Dhabi, kindly met the Telephone group on arrival. (The 2011 Fitzwilliam Journal includes Mary Young’s full account of the trip.) Campaign 2010 were male; 49% were over 65; 15% were Communications under 35. Regarding publications: 75% questionnaire thought we should not consider discontinuing paper publications; about Our thanks to the 400 alumni who kindly half read the Journal and Optima cover to completed the communications cover; 40% flicked through for items of questionnaire we mailed with April 2010’s interest. 20% could recall the Campaign Optima and Fitzwilliam Journal. As in 2008, Council report and 13% remembered it was mainly older alumni who replied: 88% receiving an eNEWS. Uzma Ahmed (Law 2008) The 2010 Foundation Lecture In 2010 students talked to 756 alumni, Professor Deaton’s topical lecture The Angus Deaton who generously gave (or pledged) over (Economics 1964), £145,000 to the College. The money Wellbeing of the Honorary Fellow of given specifically to the Student World: Global Fitzwilliam College, is Dwight D Eisenhower Opportunities Fund enabled 80 very Patterns of Health, Professor of grateful students (both undergraduates Wealth and Economics and and graduates) to get more out of their Happiness International Affairs at time at Fitzwilliam. entertained and informed the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and a capacity audience. To find out if tall International Affairs, Thank you to all alumni! people are happier – or if they just earn Princeton University. The 2011 campaign ran in March/April, more – listen to the lecture on the with good results. website at: www.fitz.cam.ac.uk/news Optima, Fitzwilliam College Newsletter 3 Your letters & emails Helicoptered in Best view from an office desk? In July Carol Lamb in the Spike Jackson (left) Development Office sent birthday (Natural Sciences greetings to Francis Hird, a 90-year Physical 2006) wrote old alumnus and former Professor of from La Jolla, California, Biochemistry, University of where he’s just started a Melbourne. She PhD in Physical received a letter in Oceanography at the reply containing Scripps Institution of hand-made Oceanography. bookmarks depicting “I came here because I really like to surf, and Kimberley Rock Art, My background at Cambridge was in very the institute is (literally) right on one of the best surf breaks in the world – Black’s beach. My Gwion Gwion figures theoretical physics. Here I’ve mostly been office is a hundred yards from the beach and and Hopi fertility studying the surf-zone dynamics of non-linear has a board rack in it and a shower outside.” symbols! wave effects and similar processes in turbulent mixing of the ocean’s interior; it actually uses a lot of the same mathematical constructs, just as happened recently – then which beaches do A bookmark, applied in a different fashion – so my you have to close in Southern California, and made by undergraduate degree definitely prepared me Francis from when), climate change... the list goes on! the rare Huon well. It’s quite a broad topic and covers all Pine from aspects of the oceans apart from what lives in (With apologies for Tripos error in the last issue Tasmania, them. So… currents, circulation patterns, polar of Optima. Ed.) depicts ice formation, coastal processes (if there’s a examples of sewage leak by the Mexican border – Kimberley Rock Have you got a better desk than this? Art created by artists long since vanished. The value of eNEWS Responses to the second eNEWS (March 2010) came from alumni in Afghanistan, Australia, Berlin, You probably have a picture of an Cambridge, India, Nairobi, Singapore and the USA; and to the third eNEWS (December 2010) from old man huddled in a scuffed, leather Abu Dhabi, Canada, Estonia, New Zealand and South Africa. We emailed over 6000 alumni. armchair, with a rug over his knees A fantastic way of keeping up to date with Many thanks for the College news. and thinking of his glory days in news at Fitz! I have spent the last couple of Makes me feel young again! Cambridge – 1949-1950. If you had years working in the US and feel a little Lee Suan Yew (Medical Sciences 1954) this view it is many steps from the distant from Cambridge and the UK in Singapore truth. After Patricia died in 2000 I general – this gives me a much welcome have gone wandering alone in the reminder of ‘home’. I found it gave me the most interesting outback of Australia … Andrew Kimber (Electrical and Information synopsis of the ever-changing events in the I have come across much that I did Sciences 1998) USA Grove of Academe nearest to my heart! not know about my country and I got Ian Barrett (Natural Sciences - Physical 1954) to some of the places by hiring a Great to hear what is going on.
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