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.

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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

Civil and structural engineer, Congratulations to Dr Jonathan Jo da Silva (1985) OBE C M Wan (2014), Academic received a Damehood as doctor (oncology) at Guy’s part of the Queen’s New Year and St Thomas’ Hospitals, Honours 2021 list for services who was selected for Forbes to humanitarian relief and magazine’s 30 Under 30 international development. Europe 2021 list in the Science Jo established Arup’s & Healthcare category. International Development business in 2007.

Congratulations to Our Trinity in New York alumni Amanda Dennis group launched on 22 December (2006) on her debut 2020 with an evening of conversation novel Her Here, with Stephen Layton MBE (e2006) published by Bellevue and music from the Trinity College On 24 October 2020, Literary Press on Choir. Thank you to Christos Dr Peter Biar Ajak (2013) 9 March 2021. Koutsoyannis (1998, pictured above) became the first South and the rest of the Committee for Sudanese national to be making it happen. To join the group awarded a PhD from the please visit: www.trin.cam.ac.uk/ University of Cambridge. alumni/associations Global Alumni News 5

Su-Mei Thompson On 19 March 2021, Baron Ajit (1984), Chief Executive Shetty (1965) received an of Media Trust, was honorary doctorate degree appointed to the Board from Ghent University’s of Commissioners of Faculty of Pharmaceutical the Equality and Human Sciences for his services to Rights Commission on science and research. 12 November 2020.

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/

Since last summer, Trinity in Japan has held meetings via Zoom with Lord Martin Rees (1960), Professor Thank you to all the Venki Ramakrishnan alumni in Singapore who (e2008), Professor Didier joined The Master, Dame Queloz (e2013) Dame Sarah Sally Davies and the Worthington QC (e2011), Senior Bursar, Richard Sir Gregory Winter (1970), 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 of events for members! 6 The Fountain | Issue 30

College News

Trinity’s endowment commits to Net Zero by 2050 and divestment from fossil fuels

In February 2021, Trinity announced that it had amended the College’s investment policy to commit to achieving net zero carbon emissions before 2050, in line with the spirit of the Paris Agreement.

Trinity’s endowment will now have a amount of greenhouse gas emissions The Master, Dame Sally Davies, said the dual mandate: to continue delivering produced are cancelled out by those new approach was ‘a significant step in sustainable income growth and to removed from the atmosphere. Trinity’s journey to addressing climate commit to a significant, lasting and change. This is clearly an issue that positive impact on improving its The Senior Bursar, Richard Turnill, extends beyond the endowment. The environmental footprint and achieving said the decision to change Trinity’s World Health Organisation cited climate net zero before 2050. The move investment policy had been taken change, along with pandemics, as one includes divestment from all fossil fuel after extensive consultation with of the key global health challenges of 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 The UK government is legally bound ‘We now have an ambitious plan to in further climate change action.’ to reduce greenhouse gas emissions achieve net zero before 2050, which, by 100% relative to 1990 levels by while challenging, given the nature of For further details on Trinity’s new 2050, in line with the international the endowment’s portfolio, is achievable approach to its investments, and to 2015 Paris Agreement, which aims to and consistent with the College’s watch a short film with the Senior Bursar, limit global warming to well below 2 income growth objectives. We will move please visit the website: degrees Celsius, preferably limited to rapidly where we can, starting with www.trin.cam.ac.uk/news/trinity- 1.5 degrees, compared to pre-industrial divestment from all fossil fuel exposure commits-to-net-zero-by-2050-and- levels. ‘Net zero’ is achieved when the in our public equities this year.’ divestment-from-fossil-fuels © GRAHAM COPEKOGA

Bountiful blossom in the Fellows’ Garden, Spring 2021. 7

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 Professor rapid genome sequencing technology all the people who’ve been involved in Sir Shankar has transformed biology and genomic making the technology happen.’ 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 Professor Sir blood. The technology has also played a Päivi Törmä, said ‘The future potential of 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. for ‘their innovation of Next Generation Herchel Smith Professor of Medicinal The technology will be a crucial element DNA Sequencing (NGS), technology Chemistry at Cambridge and Senior in promoting sustainable development that enables fast, accurate, low-cost and Group Leader at the Cancer Research through personalisation of medicine, large-scale genome sequencing.’ UK Cambridge Institute, Sir Shankar understanding and fighting killer said, ‘This is the biggest international diseases, and hence improving the The one million Euro Prize, awarded by prize that David and I have received that quality of life.’ Technology Academy Finland, is one of recognises this technology originated the world’s most prestigious science from Cambridge and the wider impact Read more: www.trin.cam.ac.uk/news/

Boat Race double victory at Ely Neil Hopkinson Memorial Fund On 4 April, Cambridge scored a double victory in the Boat Race, To celebrate the unique contribution with both the women’s and men’s teams putting in incredible of Trinity Fellow Dr Neil Hopkinson performances in the nail-bitingly close contests. (1957–2021) to the study and teaching of undergraduates in Classics at Cambridge, the Neil Hopkinson Memorial Fund has been established. The Fund will support undergraduates from low-income households, with a preference for those who have not studied Greek before.

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 8 The Fountain | Issue 30

Trinity launches two new Year 12 mentoring schemes The College has this year launched two new mentoring schemes to encourage Year 12 pupils to aspire to get to university. Launched on 9 March, the Year 12 Mentoring Scheme is designed to combat the negative consequences of the pandemic on pupils’ learning, and to compensate for support they could have missed out on. © GRAHAM COPEKOGA The pilot scheme offers 20 less- advantaged students with a strong academic record the opportunity to participate in a series of online mentoring sessions, and to complete assignments that will enhance their curriculum knowledge and understanding of the Cambridge application process.

Trinity’s Outreach Coordinator, Jon Datta, who devised the programme, said:

‘We expect the scheme to break down barriers, both real and perceived, to selective universities. We want to be an ongoing point of contact to provide support for students, who will likely feel overwhelmed by the effects of the Target Oxbridge participants at Trinity in 2019. pandemic constraints on their learning.’ heritage participating in subject-specific ‘I love hearing the impact that access The second new initiative – ‘Track webinars led by Trinity PhD students. work has had on incoming Freshers and 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, 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 together on Trinity College Students’ and Outreach programme, visit the new ‘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

Andrew Marvell: 400 years on © TRINITY COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE The 400th anniversary of the birth of poet Andrew Marvell (1621–78) was on 31 March 2021. To mark the occasion, Senior Research Fellow, Professor Angela Leighton (e2006) was asked to contribute a poem about Marvell to a new collection.

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 (1978) reading of Marvell’s seduction 9

Celebrating 100 years of the Lt. Charles Vice-Chancellor’s H. Fiske III Scholarships Social Impact Award 2021 2021 marks the centenary of the Lt. Charles H. Fiske III Scholarship at Trinity. Mr and Mrs Charles H. Fiske Jr established the Scholarship in 1921, in memory Forth year engineering student of their son, who was a member of the Harvard class of 1919. Areeg Ashraf Emarah (2017) has received the Vice-Chancellor’s Social Although Fiske passed his entrance Scholarship selection committee Impact Award 2021 for her access exams to Harvard, he first went abroad member, Robert N. Shapiro (1972) and student support work, and to travel. When World War I broke out, said, ‘The Fiske Scholarship honors her commitment to the May Week he abandoned his travels and entered historic ties between Harvard and Alternative (MWA) movement. You Trinity. In Cambridge he had his first Trinity, has a vibrant presence today can read about Areeg’s incredible military training in the Reserve Officers’ in both institutions, and now launches work during her time at Trinity in the Training Corps, and returned to enter into its second century. My Trinity year Student spot on page 24. Harvard in the autumn of 1915. However, was transformative in many ways, his student career was interrupted by intellectually and personally – that is © SIR CAM his war service, and it was brought to a widely shared experience of all Fiske an end by his death on the front lines in Scholars. I treasure the friendships I’ve France in August 1918. made at Trinity, insights I gained, and ongoing connections I enjoy.’ The Fiske Scholarship provides a year of study and support at Trinity for a Harvard graduate in the year after To discover more about the Scholarship graduation, and is awarded to students visit www.hcs.uraf.harvard.edu who have been actively engaged in their academic and extracurricular pursuits, and who show great promise of further intellectual and personal growth. Fiske Scholar 1972–73 and former

Eight Junior Research Fellows join Trinity in 2021

Trinity has appointed eight Junior Research Fellows across the academic disciplines, all of whom will be joining the College in October 2021.

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 and what they are most looking forward to when they Dr Naomi Richman Mr Wladislaw Dr Henry Lee-Six Mr Oliver Janzer join the Trinity community: for research in Michailow for for research in for research in Pure Anthropology research in Physics Medical Sciences Mathematics www.trin.cam.ac.uk/ news/meet-trinitys-junior- research-fellows.

Mr Rory Gregson for Ms Rita Teixeira Da Dr Daniel Sperrin Mr Benjamin 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, Parker Library, and as Assistant Librarian at Christ’s. I would be mainly a manager, so I really value still I also spent several years at the London Library in being involved in pretty much every aspect of what St James’s Square, becoming Head of Reference goes on. The flip side of this is that you have to be and managing the busy reading rooms. prepared to switch from working on a provenance enquiry about an early printed book to helping a What appealed to you about the student get access to an online database, when Q opportunity to join Trinity, and to make the suddenly you notice a damp patch in the ceiling move from ‘The Other Place’? that needs investigating. So it’s a pretty varied role! This is actually a re-joining of Trinity for me; my How have you and the team managed to first professional job was here as the Library’s keep the Library ‘open for business’ for the Graduate Trainee. It was the most amazing start Q Trinity community during the past year? to a library career, and if you asked anyone who How has technology helped? knew me in a professional context, they would tell you that this job is the one I’d always dreamed of We’ve – amazingly, and with thanks to our doing. When the Sub-Librarian post was advertised colleagues across College – managed to keep the in the middle of the first lockdown last year, it College Library open to readers since term started certainly wasn’t the ideal time to be thinking about in October 2020 by reducing the number of seats, leaving my job in Oxford, or starting a new one and installing the now ubiquitous screens, and having a although its been challenging, I am so glad I did. one-way system in place. In Lent Term we set up a I was an undergrad in Cambridge so it feels a bit weekly online reading room session where students like coming home, and as an ASNaC, having some could ‘come’ to the Library for an afternoon and of the most significant Anglo-Saxon manuscripts work alongside others. Staff ran the sessions and stored just metres away from my desk is an were there to answer questions, and co-ordinated exceptional treat. break times so people could chat with others about what they were working on and have a sense of that What is your ‘typical’ day as Sub-Librarian? collective space that the Library would normally give. Q Overall, I am responsible for supporting the What support initiatives have you work of Dr Nicolas Bell, the Librarian, and for introduced to help students to cope with managing the operational aspects of running the Q 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. Why are libraries so important, now more in the wake of the 10th century monastic reform Q than ever? movement, which sought to bring standards back to English monastic life that had slipped somewhat. Well, I am probably slightly biased here, but they Inspirational books like this formed part of this remain, as they have for centuries, as spaces where movement, and I think its power and symbolism knowledge can be discovered and explored at the readers’ own pace. In an increasingly digital world, are just as meaningful some 1000 years later. they offer a place to come and consult analogue material to give our screen-tired eyes a break, and What is your desert island book, and why? to browse along shelves in a way that just can’t be Q The librarian in me wants to answer this replicated online. What we are also seeing, perhaps question with a curt one-liner – books and sand most importantly, is that libraries provide a social don’t mix! If I could bring myself to overlook that, and space for people to work in; either in a quiet corner, I’m going to sound like an Anglo-Saxon obsessive or at a table surrounded by others. That sense now, but I think I’d have to take Richard Hamer’s of being in space designed for study, and where A Choice of Anglo-Saxon Verse (Faber and Faber, everyone around you is doing the same thing, plays 1970). As a student it was by my side constantly, and an important role in our increasingly online and now years later, it’s something I can pick up and dip isolated way of working. into at any time. I’m not a big fan of poetry overall, but there is just something so sumptuous about the What’s your favourite item in the Trinity opening of the elegiac poem The Dream of the Rood Q Collection and why? – ‘Hwaet, ic swefna cyst secgan wylle…Hear while How can I pick just one? The ASNaC in me feels I tell about the best of dreams…’ that it just draws I must choose something of that ilk, and the so- me in every time. When I started at Christ Church, I called Trinity Gospels (MS B.10.4) featured heavily learned that Richard Hamer had, in fact, been Fellow in my Masters dissertation so I feel I know it quite Librarian there for many years and still came to well; it’s nice to be reunited after several years! It the Library regularly; now knowing the great man is a stunning example of a manuscript produced himself makes the book even better!

The lavish opening to the Gospel of Mark (MS B.10.4). 12 The Fountain | Issue 30

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 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 ourselves. I came back to Cambridge for Michaelmas Term, – the decision to run was more influenced by other people’s and then spent this last lockdown in London. I’m very glad encouragement. Having that support from others on TCSU, I’ve been in different locations over the last year, which I know even though the job is very different with the pandemic, meant hasn’t been the experience for everyone. there wasn’t any doubt in my mind.

Second year medicine is said to be the hardest, and it has How has the TCSU Committee had to adapt? been – our exams were delayed until September which gave us months to revise, but afterwards we only had a week until Q The perception of TCSU has changed the most as we’ve the new year started. We’ve had to keep going without much become a much bigger part of the student experience. We 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 I’m in the hardest year and I’m doing it through COVID-19. activities there just wouldn’t be anything happening. Because © DAVID ROSE

TCSU welcoming the new arrivals in Nevile’s Court. Socially distanced dinner in Hall. 13 © DAVID ROSE

The Matriculation picnic lunch hampers were a definite hit.

of this, TCSU is also a much bigger part of Freshers’ lives than you could have 90 people eating Krispy Kreme doughnuts usual – particularly during Freshers’ Week when they couldn’t and talking – it was a great way to get outside of your room go out to clubs. It’s been really sad to see that two of the clubs and get people together. in Cambridge aren’t coming back after lockdown – Cindies 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 What have you learnt about the Trinity Community for keeping us up-to-date and connected with College. At the Q and yourself over this year? start of the pandemic, we had emails from the Master each week with stories and encouragement to keep your head Just how big the Trinity community is. It’s easy to become up. This continuity of communications and events has been isolated within your friend group while we can only see six really important, so it doesn’t just seem like life has stopped people, but I’ve still been meeting new people throughout the 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 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. 14 The Fountain | Issue 30

‘… we were probably better prepared 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 a man who’s lived such an interesting life and been through a forward to playing squash and football again. lot, and at the event he talked about everything very openly. 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? with friends. When you’re by yourself, it can be difficult to That we were probably better prepared for this than we switch off without feeling guilty. That’s much easier with other expected. Being an academic, resourceful community, people, whether by having a drink or meal, watching a film, or the students have been great at making the most of an playing sports. I’ve also missed the Cambridge experience. exceptionally difficult situation and we should be proud of how 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 on formals, bops and balls, sports and society events – even members of the community will go above and beyond to look lectures and in-person supervisions – it’s difficult to not get after the students, such as the Tutors, and our Chaplains, a bit maudlin when you think about the time and experiences John and Olga, who have been integral to the welfare of those you can’t get back. students who have needed to stay in College. 15 © DAVID ROSE

Top left: The amazing catering team have been working so hard to keep us all well-fed. Top right: Out on the rounds, delivering food packages across College. Above: The Choir leading a rendition of Danny Boy in Great Court during the Freshers’ welcome was a moving and memorable moment.

What are you looking forward to? What will you take away from your time at Trinity? 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 the big concern for most people my age, but since graduation time here, and that appreciation is not going to fade away is coming up it feels more pressing than usual. I’m also looking any time soon. Also the knowledge that this experience – forward to seeing what we all learn from the pandemic – I the people I’ve met here, the things I’ve learned, the lessons hope we’ll emerge more open, attentive and appreciative, both from TCSU – will stay with me for a very long time. I am of how essential human interactions are to our well-being, and very proud to have been here, and to have been a student of how fragile the status quo is. Normality is a kind of luxury during this weird time, which has definitely come with its we had forgotten to appreciate, and I hope this lesson spurs own lessons. us on to be more proactive and collaborative. 16 The Fountain | Issue 30

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. a lot of when I was an undergraduate and which I hugely benefited from Founded last year by author Ali Smith, as a student from a working class the College’s first Senior Fellow background, and creative writing. Commoner in the Creative Arts, who wanted to create a ‘writing collective Of all the gifts studying at Cambridge like no other’, The Litmus Project invites gave me, learning how to confidently UK students to respond creatively to a express myself in my own unique voice, theme – in 2019–20 it was ‘in common’, verbally as well as in writing, has been this year it is ‘the green light’ – and be by far the greatest. Oftentimes students published on the Trinity website. All from state schools aren’t given as much of the submissions receive feedback opportunity to hone these skills as – which was how I contributed to The their privately educated counterparts, Litmus last year – and in 2019–2020 who broadly have greater access to the number of submissions meant the activities like debating, and when I team were able to print the majority in got to Cambridge I struggled at first an anthology, editions of which were to properly articulate exactly what it signed by Ali and sent to participating was I wanted to say. I was intimidated students and their schools. and embarrassed. But as I grew in confidence, and realised that my accent In 2019 physical creative writing and linguistic idiosyncrasies were not workshops were held in schools, only OK but joyously mine, it was like however due to the COVID-19 pandemic someone had thrown a window open in this year the team – comprising myself, my mind and let the fresh air flood in. Trinity Outreach Coordinator Jon Datta, Schools Liaison Officer Lizzie Bowes Being able to articulate myself has had and volunteer and alumna Sarah Lusack not only myriad professional benefits (2012) – held and continue to hold but personal ones too; it’s no secret virtual workshops for students that have that creative writing, or any form of been hailed as ‘excellent’ and ‘really fun’. self-expression, helps with mental health and personal wellbeing. I saw in Even though the deadline for the Litmus an incredible opportunity to submissions is 1 June, as I write this © ISTOCK.COM/ MISSTUNI share this experience with students who in April, we have, incredibly, already might otherwise never have considered received an unprecedented number 17

Lauren (left) with last year’s Litmus Project Coordinator, Terri-Leigh Riley. of submissions from right across the Jon Datta, Outreach Coordinator, UK. And while this gives the project a said: ‘The objective of the project for competitive edge never intended, as the College is to respond to an we will now have to select which pieces identifiable gap in engagement between go into this summer’s print anthology, Cambridge and other Russell Group we’re extremely keen to emphasise that universities with schools in terms everyone who participates is a winner of English and creative writing; and and a part of The Litmus. to increase understanding of the challenges that talented pupils who Looking to the future, we have an want to read English face in applying The Litmus has been made exciting collaboration with Cambridge and getting to Higher Education. In a possible thanks to a generous Literary Festival in the pipeline, a cameo year when the importance of education gift from an anonymous donor. on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire and a and the need to address gaping new and ever-growing social media inequalities have become clearer than This year’s Litmus was open presence. We hope to keep growing ever, the aims and achievements of to students in year 9-11 from this wonderful project, potentially The Litmus Project have taken on a non-fee paying schools, who expanding it somewhere along the line particular significance. were invited to submit a piece to include different categories such as of creative writing no longer short film making, art and more, and to Creativity and emotional intelligence than 500 words responding to recruit student volunteers and alumni have never been more important and the theme ‘the green light’. All to write for our blog and participate in we hope, via The Litmus, to foster these information can be found at future workshops. skills through both the workshops and https://web.trin.cam.ac.uk/ student submissions.’ litmus/ and you can keep These are our ambitions. And while we up-to-date with the latest are still in many ways at the genesis of announcements at our twitter the project, learning what works and page: @litmus_the doesn’t, what we could change and Lauren’s debut, Hands: An Anxious what we could build upon, already the Mind Unpicked is out in January 2022 If you are interested in varied and original work we’ve seen with HarperNorth. contributing to The Litmus showcased so far is inspiration enough @laurenrbrown95 blog or participating in future to do everything we can to ensure it workshops, please get in touch keeps getting bigger, better, as inclusive laurenrbrown.contently.com with the Alumni Office: as possible and, most importantly, fun. [email protected] 18 The Fountain | Issue 30

Three Trinity medics reflect on their year helping to conquer COVID, and on how the global challenge could be resolved.

Dr Laith Alexander (2011) I matriculated in 2011, and spent nine years at Trinity reading medicine together with a PhD in neuroscience. I am currently a Foundation Year 1 (FY1) doctor working in acute medicine at St Thomas’ Hospital, London. My work involves covering inpatient medical wards, in addition to working on the admissions ward.

coffee with the GPs. We were chatting about our weekends when the senior partner came in, sat down and said, ‘so what’s the deal with this new virus in China?’ The opinion of the doctors at the time was well and truly split: some were worried, some weren’t. The senior partner wolfed down his coffee, sighed, and ominously declared ‘this piece of RNA is going to spread like wildfire – and it’s going to change the way we practice for good,’ before leaving for his morning clinic. Looks like he was right.

If not for the pandemic, where would you

COVID-19: one year in year one COVID-19: Qbe now? Some things would have stayed the same. I would still have been an FY1 at St Thomas’ working on acute medicine, although without COVID-19 there would’ve been a lot less respiratory failure and a lot What was your situation when the world more diversity in the type of medical presentations Qfirst became aware of COVID-19? (which has consequences for training). I felt the 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 placement in a small village east of Bury St short, I missed out on my graduation ceremony Edmunds. I had finished my written finals in early (which would’ve been on my birthday) and I December 2019 and I was still riding the post- couldn’t say goodbye to my friends. Instead, I finals high. The news of the virus grumbled in the was recruited into the NHS early as an ‘interim’ background over Christmas and the New Year, doctor and spent most of that summer living in a but I most distinctly remember a conversation hotel next to St Thomas’ where we’d been granted on a Monday morning in early February over accommodation. Very surreal, looking back. 19

Tell us about the work you’re doing in the response). It’s also critically important that we 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 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 lots of other people (such as supermarket workers) that were invaluable as a fledgling doctor in these or obese with other lifestyle-related diseases. settings. Firstly, prioritisation: performing a mental The famous German pathologist Rudolf Virchow triage of the tasks at hand is critical to determine 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. for times of stress. The day before my first-year anatomy exam, when my capacity to revise was What has helped you through lockdown? well and truly spent, I sat on the banks of the Cam for two hours to read a book (Jane Eyre, no QBeing able to go to work has been a blessing. less). I did exactly the same at St Thomas’ after It certainly hasn’t been easy starting as a doctor a difficult shift, except this time I sat on a bench in the midst of the pandemic, but at least it has next to the Thames (and the book was Where kept me occupied. The hours have been long but the Crawdads Sing). Thirdly, valuing diversity of I figured that I wasn’t really missing out on much opinion: my favourite thing about Trinity – and during lockdown, even on the weekend night shifts Cambridge – is that if you ask two people a (except for Line of Duty). I’ve been able to stay 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 disciplinary team is key in medicine, and having a and trying to stay in touch with friends and family. 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… problems, and when deciding on ceilings of care for the most critically ill. What have you missed most? QGosh, there’s so much. It’s everything I took How do you think the COVID-19 situation for granted before: seeing my friends, travelling, will resolve itself? 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 But vaccines alone aren’t enough: there needs Manchester – I’ve not seen them in person for over to be ongoing surveillance, testing, tracing, a year. After the restrictions are lifted, I’ve promised isolating and social distancing, with measures to myself to never turn down an opportunity to go control the spread established internationally. out… let’s see whether that lasts when I’m on my

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Dr Rupert Beale (1996) I arrived at Trinity to read Medical Sciences in 1996, followed by the MB/PhD course at Cambridge that afforded some respite from the Gradgrind nature of medical education. I was lucky enough to be in the late, great Michael Neuberger’s (1971) lab in the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) for my PhD.

After further medical training I was appointed as Clinical Lecturer in renal medicine and immunology at Cambridge. Kidneys are often subjected to immune attack, and so I was able to explore my interest in viruses and immunity in Felix Randow’s lab (again in the LMB). I discovered something strange about how influenza interacts with our cells’autophagy (self-eating) machinery. This forms the basis of my ongoing research, first in the Division of Virology in Cambridge, and subsequently in the Francis Crick Institute, London where I was appointed the first Clinician Scientist Group Leader and I run the Cell Biology of Infection Laboratory.

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 at The Worldwide Influenza Centre, based at the as quickly as we could. A ‘Lighthouse’ lab asked Crick, were seriously alarmed. I was in touch with a technical question on a Sunday lunchtime, we 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 We obtained a culture of the virus and started to supply by making it ourselves and sticking it on a develop simple models to study its cell biology. motorbike. The party line was that it couldn’t be done. We did it. It soon became apparent that academic study of the virus was not what was imminently needed. There was a lot to be excited about reading A catastrophe was developing on our doorstep in Medical Sciences at Trinity in the late 90s. John central London, and we had to help as best Brown (1974), our Director of Studies, expected we could. us to go far beyond the taught course (ignoring as best we could the pettifogging requirements of the Tell us about the work you’re doing in the General Medical Council) and instead to grapple Qfight against COVID-19 and did what you with the experimental basis for our understanding learnt at Trinity help in any way? of those branches of physiology and pathology In March 2020, COVID-19 was rife amongst hospital that fired our imagination. Enthusiasts of staff, many of whom were mildly symptomatic but immunology volunteered for an extra two hour still working, being ineligible for a test. The Crick supervision from Doug Fearon (e2001) every week. decided to set up a testing pipeline, and to achieve Doug had been making immunological discoveries 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 this team I was tasked with working out how to get publications and be taught the old, half-forgotten swab samples of a horrifyingly wide variety into a observations that underpinned what everyone standardised molecular test. Visiting the local NHS assumed to be true. ‘That’s the party line’, Doug laboratories revealed the extent to which authorities would say, ‘but…’. in the UK had messed this up. They were running out of everything, and it was clear we would have to If not for the pandemic where would you make our own tests in such a way as to not compete Qbe now? with the NHS for scarce resources. On holiday. © ISTOCK.COM/ LOOPS7

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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 interesting and very complicated. The best way to manage the pandemic would have been to copy those countries that mounted What has helped you through lockdown? a determined effort not to let the virus get out 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 extremely effective, and it’s possible to control the articles for the London Review of Books, the odd bit pandemic by using a combination of public health of cricket, a bunch of people I sing with (especially measures (including vaccination) to minimise Rachael Beale, (1995). transmission of the virus. The big question is whether evolving variants will remain susceptible What have you missed most? to the vaccines. If we can make vaccines that target QChoir and subsequent Sunday lunch at a the virus in all its potential forms then it might mediocre pub. become a bit like measles – we largely eliminate it from the population and only have to deal with sporadic outbreaks. What’s perhaps more likely www.crick.ac.uk/research/find-a-researcher/ for the next few years is that the virus evolves rupert-beale to escape partially the current vaccines, and we Read Rupert’s London Review of Books articles: have to re-vaccinate with updated vaccines every www.lrb.co.uk year or two. I’m part of the ‘G2P-UK’ National

Dr Bronya Gorney (1998) I am a GP (NHS), GP Appraiser, Preventicum doctor, Coach, Trainer in Coaching and Communication skills, and mother of two monkeys intent on mischief.

What was your situation when the world I miss seeing my patients face-to-face for so many Qfirst became aware of COVID-19? reasons. The energy that flows through me when I connect deeply with a patient, has been my deep On 31 December 2019, when the initial report of a well of strength throughout a demanding career. new SARS virus was being delivered to the W.H.O., That vibrant inter-relational spark has reliably I was delivering my own life-changing, paradigm- fuelled me through years of interminable clinics, shift-inducing, second child. Oliver was born into a the energy from each interaction bouncing off the room packed with expertise; brilliant obstetricians, walls and injecting me with renewed zest for my paediatricians, anaesthetists and midwives, who next encounter. stabilised and looked after us calmly, professionally and with genuine kindness. Sitting alone, phone call after phone call, feels both flat and alarming. I can’t help but think of all Receiving such world-class medical care from an the physical pathology I’ve picked up over the years NHS I feel passionately about, was emotional and heart-warming. Little did I know then, how this sense of pride in my medical colleagues would be a feeling I would repeatedly return to over the following year.

If not for the pandemic, where would you Qbe now? If not for the pandemic, I would be in almost exactly the same place, but doing things rather differently. I’m now back from maternity leave, working as an NHS GP again but I’ve returned to a vastly different landscape in Primary Care. Most of my clinics are now by telephone appointment and I only see patients in person if it’s necessary to examine them. 22 The Fountain | Issue 30 © ISTOCK.COM/ MONGKOLCHON AKESIN

by actually laying my hands on someone, as well as people have to effect change in this world. They will the non-verbal clues that alert me when someone is be the ones who uncover the creative solutions we struggling. All of this can be missed over the phone. need to transform our society.

However, the pandemic has also enabled a How do you think the COVID-19 situation staggering level of innovation. Qwill resolve itself? It would be easy in the UK to relax into some kind of Remote working has become essential for when reassurance, that with an annual Covid vaccine and

COVID-19: one year in year one COVID-19: doctors (or worse still, multiple doctors) need some degree of ‘lockdown light’ each winter, we to isolate. The silver lining is how this allows me could be buoyed through this storm. to come home to do bedtime with my children, restarting my work once they’re asleep. It’s been a However, to really contain this virus, we need a game changer for me as a working mother. much broader and more inclusive vision as to how we see ourselves and how we define our networks. Tell us about the work you’re doing in the fight against COVID-19, and did what you Q In a globalised society, our fate has become learnt at Trinity help in any way? intertwined with almost everyone else’s on the My main work in the fight against Covid includes planet. SARS CoV 2 has become a globe-trotter managing acutely sick patients, but now seems on steroids, connecting us to places we could more focused on the fallout from this pandemic; never imagine. untangling the mangled and wrangled lives left in the wake of this viral tsunami. Covid helpfully highlights the ‘inconvenient truth’, that unless we actively protect vulnerable Even before Covid hit our shores, mental health populations in countries who can’t afford a was already sliding into an abyss of ever greater vaccine roll out, we will continue to be impacted need and increasingly scant resources. However, by a virus that has endless opportunity to evolve I’ve never witnessed this intensity of need before and mutate. and it’s especially severe in our teenagers. So many of them are in violent distress. The invitation is for us to step into a more evolved and connected global dynamic. So aside from more We need much better conversations about what it healthcare resources, what we really need is more means to look after our mental health. Few of my courageous and compassionate leadership. patients have ever considered how to ensure their minds and emotional selves survive, let alone thrive. What has helped you through lockdown? QNaked bottoms waddling round the garden We need to help our young people reclaim back searching for snails. their self-confidence, shatter the hot house that thrusts a negative body image onto so many, and What have you missed most? help each individual discover novel ways to bring more joy into the world. QSharing food with people I love, dancing in fields with people I’ve only just met, and celebrating What I have learnt from Trinity is the mesmerising life surrounded by loved ones. Connection, brilliance and phenomenal capacity that young connection, connection! 23

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’. in librarianship. time. The eponymous wrens appear around the window in the spring, and Tennyson came up to Trinity as an 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 less time with the special collections in He refers, of course, to the lady in of his poetry set to music, of which The 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 stacks in the basement. These stacks treasures and curiosities that aren’t contain a lot of material that was once The Window was Sullivan’s only attempt displayed upstairs in the Wren. shelved in the Wren but has since moved at a song cycle, and predates his comic downstairs to make space. This includes operettas with W.S. Gilbert. Despite YOUR HISTORY! several Victorian musical scores which, successes such as HMS Pinafore and though not especially rare or of especial The Pirates of Penzance, Gilbert and The College Archivists preserve provenance, are still beautiful books in Sullivan’s relationship was notoriously and collect records documenting their own right. fraught, as Sullivan considered a and illustrating the history of Trinity lot of the silliness of Gilbert’s libretti and the lives of its members. We One such book that has caught my eye beneath him. This seems to have been are keen to hear from alumni who recently is an original 1871 copy of The something of a pattern: Tennyson, then have records which they would be Window; or, The Songs of the Wrens – an Poet Laureate, was at first perfectly happy to donate to the College for English song cycle by Arthur Sullivan happy to team up with Sullivan in permanent preservation. 1867, but he later felt We are interested in a wide range that the poems were not of material, particularly items serious enough and the that illustrate the everyday life of project would damage his Fellows and students: photographs reputation. Sullivan had to of rooms, sports, performances, harangue him to hand over and social occasions; club and the poems so that he could society records; letters, diaries, set them to music, and the reminiscences, and posters, films, project eventually took four and recordings. years to complete. If you have items you think might What immediately struck be of interest, please email us at me about this book is [email protected] or call us the gorgeous front cover, on +44 (0)1223 338488. embossed in black and gold, showing a latticed window surrounded by leaves and wrens. This was supposed to be one of many illustrations in the book drawn by the eminent Pre-Raphaelite John Everett Millais. However, 24 The Fountain | Issue 30

Meet Areeg, a fourth year engineer who is aiming to build a better world.

© 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 ‘Cool, what’s that?’ to head the TCSU, the African Caribbean and Islamic Societies, and the Trinity May Ball – call me This is a conversation the Mother of Leaders! that I had with Mr. Spence, my A Level The engineering department has also been a headmaster in Kenya. huge part of my life here. The closest place to my Until then, I was unaware of possible options heart, its library, is best known for the beanbags beyond studying in a public university there or my that provide brilliant naps in between struggling birthplace, Egypt. His belief in me led me to work through Tripos. The collaborative space is where I tirelessly to pursue Engineering at Cambridge. I made most of my friendships, and hopping from wanted to see science-backed policy and not the one office to the next to chat to different members empty-promise politics I grew up with. While this of staff while procrastinating on work helped me inspired me to apply to Cambridge, the Beacon feel like I had a community I could rely on. My University Scholarship enabled me to make it here. biggest character development was moving to the It is aimed at African students with leadership silent section of the library come exam-time. Co- potential who will create positive social change. founding the Women in Engineering Society in my Throughout my time here, I have tried to embody final year felt like the best way of contributing to our the principles of the Beacon: taking people with department – helping inspire and connect fellow you and making a difference now. women in engineering.

Arriving as a wide-eyed Fresher (and missing Great In the Beacon spirit of taking people with you, I Gate that first time), I didn’t know what awaited have tried to make Cambridge more accessible. me. I was suddenly very aware of being a woman in Organising the first student-led access event in the a male-dominated subject, and a person of colour engineering department for students from under- who is visibly Muslim. Fears of fitting in were very represented backgrounds meant the world to me. strong. However, I found friends-turned-family and I mentored applicants, home and international, compassionate staff – a huge shoutout to my Tutor, and worked with the Admissions Office to make Professor Adrian Poole – who embraced me for Cambridge a reality for other African undergrads. who I am rather than who I ‘represent’. Very soon, Amazingly, I was approached by a Fresher in my Trinity and Cambridge became home. Late nights third year who was one of my shadowing scheme in the library, laughter echoing through Nevile’s mentees two years before! In the spirit of making Court, sunsets on the Backs and seeing snow for a difference now, I was part of the founding committee of May Week Alternative. Since our © AREEGEMARAH founding in 2018, we have put giving at the heart of May Week celebrations and raised over £200,000 for the Against Malaria foundation to help protect hundreds of thousands of people.

These experiences are what I reflect on now that I am close to graduating. I am grateful for the photographs that I have taken along this journey – a comfort, particularly during this challenging last year. Losing my dad to Covid in 2020 has turned my life upside down. However, inspired by my dad’s impact during his life – putting a smile on children’s faces through cleft-lip and palate surgeries – I aim to make the world a better place. I hope I made a start with Cambridge.

Thank you to Areeg for allowing us to reproduce her photographs on the front and inside cover of A favourite of my photographs, bringing together so this magazine. You can see more of her beautiful many aspects that are very Cambridge – the Corpus clock, photography on her Instagram account: King’s Chapel and tourists – taken on my way to the @the_afro_arab

STUDENT SPOT STUDENT (2017 Engineering) Emarah Ashraf Areeg engineering department!

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Have a break with technologist Dr Amanda Talhat, who is delivering solutions for Nestlé.

I lead the Department I got involved with the TEA and stayed involved of Technology at Nestlé as I left Cambridge. I am now Co-Chair with Research in Switzerland. Christie Marrian (1970), and we are supported by We work on early stage a fantastic alumni committee. The TEA is always research projects pleased to welcome new members so if you are delivering technical reading this and would like to join us, please get solutions that are relevant in touch! for multiple businesses, which are then further developed in the Nestlé Trinity, in addition to giving me a great education, Product Technology Centres into a specific product also gave me a lot of transferable skills. I can think application for launch later. I lead a team of 50 critically, negotiate, motivate, lead, and endure high – we are mostly physicists and mathematicians stress because of these skills. My advice to current but there are one or two chemical engineers like students is to make the most of your time there, myself! Day-to-day, I am Project Lead on all the whether that is in your studies or in your extra- projects from the department, which range from curricular activities. Think of it as building muscles plant-based to new technologies. I am also the link that will come in useful when you enter work. between Nestlé Research and our dairy and ice Secondly, find yourself a mentor and really invest in cream businesses. that relationship and, in time, mentor others also. Finally, be kind to yourself. Your self-esteem should 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 of origin and processing conditions on cocoa plans figured out before graduation. Be you and butter, a key ingredient in chocolate. My PhD was be happy. partially sponsored by Nestlé Product Technology Centre in Confectionery in York, and this gave me the opportunity to network with the experts Join the TEA! and product developers who are responsible for Sign up via the Alumni Associations web page some of our most recognisable brands, such as www.trin.cam.ac.uk/alumni/associations/ KitKat and Aero. After my PhD, I tried consulting but moved back into food & drink in time for all the exciting innovations and challenges in the industry, such as plant-based products, sustainable packaging, and functional food.

I matriculated in 2006 and read Natural Sciences, but what really stuck with me was all the extra- curricular activities beyond my course. I remember being overwhelmed by choice at the Chaplain’s Squash in the first week, and getting dragged to a badminton training by the linguist who lived above me. Looking back, I was terrible at it but stayed committed to the club as I loved being a part of a team. I had to focus more on my studies during , ARDO , Sweet Rachel by my PhD. I learnt then that I was someone who needed to see how my work translates into the real world to stay motivated, and that once motivated, I persevere until we find a solution. This realisation has really helped me in delivering projects.

During the 3rd year of my PhD I was invited to the Trinity Engineers’ Association (TEA) where I won a poster prize. I was at a point of my studies where I needed to decide on what to do in the future, TEA networking and mentoring evening October 2019, with and I had no idea. Peter Davidson (Engineering three of our speakers. From left Dr Barnali Ghosh (1999), 1973) became my mentor and over the years has Dr Rachel Cooke (1996) and Professor Joan Lasenby (1978)

ALUMNI PROFILE PROFILE ALUMNI (2006) Talhat Amanda Dr helped me build a solid career. To pay it forward, and me. © GRAHAM COPEKOGA

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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 not have to isolate, and we could keep watching nature taking its rightful place the gardens going. One bubble stayed Last autumn we began the rejuvenation again, not only the plants but wildlife in our compound in Queens’ Road work, bringing in extra soil to level as well – the birds and their song have while the other created a second hub everything off and rotovating twice to been far more prominent. This February, over in a section of Adrian House in make it plantable. In September, we my team spent a happy hour recording Burrell’s Field. We each had our own set decided to do the turf laying and bulb sightings for the RSPB’s annual Big of tools because sharing was not safe, planting at the same time, so as one Garden Birdwatch. We spotted 19 and the bigger mowers and machinery team was putting in the bulbs and different species in that short time, were sanitised between each use. It moving backwards the other team with Blue Tits being our most frequent was a logistical puzzle but, with no followed behind, laying the turf. It was feathered visitor. The gardens have been crossover between hubs and good team quite an operation but we pulled it off. essential to the wellbeing of the College communication, it worked. Everyone was commenting about the community and have been a green new lawn and I was thinking, ‘but you haven – uplifting and good for the soul. Renewal don’t know what’s underneath this!’ Just before the pandemic took hold, That was the big surprise this spring, Growth we had the ‘visit’ from protestors and and when the crocuses started flowering Despite coping with Covid and Newton’s Lawn was destroyed. We it was one of the most photographed unexpected renewal projects, the team has been determined to keep making © SARAH CLAYDON improvements too. Trinity aims to be as green and energy efficient as possible and, although it is still in the planning stages, we hope we will be able to install solar panels on our tool and machinery shed roofs in the not too distant future. To cut down on noise and fumes from equipment, we have

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. 27

The College Gardens Committee We have recently introduced new Great areas to attract more insects and other guides our development, and we meet Court bedding such as bananas and species, and to keep us all interlinked twice a year to discuss plants, projects castor oil plants, which not only look so that wildlife can wander freely. and plans for the future. Another future good but can cope with the hotter and We are fortunate to be part of this project that is in the planning stages drier summers. We are starting to do magnificent green strip running from is possibly planting an orchard on an that with the ‘big stuff’ too, planting Queens’ to past St John’s, and we must area of the Paddocks, which would be more resilient trees such as eucalyptus nurture it for future generations. visible from Garrett Hostel Lane. We because some species, including our would plant heritage varieties including pines, have struggled with recent So despite the extraordinary year we apples, pears and greengages, let the successive hot summers. have all endured, the gardens continue grass grow and plant wildflowers to to flourish, and we hope it will not be attract bees, insects and wildlife, and Trinity sits in an important green too much longer now before we can be as biodiverse as possible. Another corridor within the city and is a welcome you back again to explore. delicious benefit would be that our member of the Backs Committee, There is no greater pleasure for the chefs could use the fruit in Trinity comprising the Colleges that border gardens team than seeing the Trinity dishes, as they do with our Burrell’s the Cam. The Committee meets community together in our precious Field honey – Senior Gardener Tony annually, and a landscape architect green spaces, enjoying our work. Harte is a beekeeper, looking after our advises us on our strategic plan to nine hives. protect our strip along the river. We work together to continue making Read more about the team’s Big A Greener Future improvements with an immediate Garden Birdwatch: With the climate changing, we are also impact on the biodiversity of the area, www.trin.cam.ac.uk/news/ having to adapt our planting schemes. such as creating wetter wilderness the-big-garden-birdwatch

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 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 backdrop in our Great Court planting. 28 The Fountain | Issue 30

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 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 a nut (Figure 2), and crows can drop a human brain and the first of these simple tools. stone to raise the water level to be able was the Systemizing Mechanism. This to reach a worm. Both the behaviour allowed humans to look for special something to it, then I get an outcome. of other animals and our hominid patterns in the world, that I call if-and- The Systemizing Mechanism allowed us ancestors can be parsimoniously then patterns. These are the basis of to analyse the world to find such patterns explained as the result of associative any system. If I take something, and I do and confirm that they hold true. To do © DIDIER DESCOUENS (CC-BY-SA-4.0)

Tool made by H. habilis Tool made by H. erectus Tool made by H. Neanderthalis 2.1m to 1.5 yrs 2.1m to 250K yrs 300k to 40K yrs

Figure 1: Simple stone tools made by our hominid ancestors, ranging from 2.1m to 40K years ago. 29 © HUMAN ORIGINS PROGRAM, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION © HILDE JENSEN © UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN

Figure 4: The earliest jewellery, 75,000 years old. Figure 5: The earliest musical instrument, 40,000 years old.

this we repeat our observations over then I make a specific sound. But if I © WIKIMEDIA and over again. And once confirmed, we blow down the hollow bone, and cover then can vary it by experimenting with two holes, then I make a different sound. the if or the and. If we produce a new Our ancestor had invented a new pattern, that is an invention. I borrow complex tool, a musical instrument, and 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 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 And 40,000 years ago, we see the 75,000 years ago because the we can think that someone might 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 the hollow bone, and cover one hole, it. We wear jewellery because we can referential communication. 30 The Fountain | Issue 30

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 show a high level of autistic traits. overlap with the genetic variants Thomas Edison, who famously invented associated with autism. So some of the the first electric lightbulb, invented non- genes that cause autism also cause stop. As a teenager he was obsessed talent in pattern recognition. This leads 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 and Dash. His wife moved a mattress Valley. We went to the Dutch city of We recently built an online into his workshop so that he could carry Eindhoven, where one third of jobs are tool to enable people to on inventing and experiment day and in IT and which is home to the Institute take surveys at home, so night. Anecdotally, many autistic people of Technology, much like MIT, and where that they can contribute have a talent at pattern recognition and the Philips Factory has been for over 100 to our research. We will systemizing. And Max Park is autistic, years. We found autism rates were twice be able to use this data to and despite his social difficulties is the as high in Eindhoven compared to two explore a range of significant world champion in the Rubik’s Cube, a other Dutch cities, Utrecht and Haarlem, questions: do the five system of visual patterns. matched for demographics. This is again brain types vary by culture, consistent with a genetic link between age, gender, neurology, But anecdotes are not evidence. autism in the child, and a talent in occupation, biology and We looked at 600,000 people in the pattern seeking among their parents. experience? And what general population and measured their advantages does each autistic traits using the AQ, the Autism So, we have evidence that the genes for brain type confer? To join in Spectrum Quotient. We found those autism have driven human invention. our research, please go to who work in STEM (science, technology, And yet, how are we as a society treating yourbraintype.com engineering and mathematics) on autistic people? The majority of autistic average have more autistic traits than adults are unemployed and have high those who do not. This shows a clear levels of poor mental health, likely the link between aptitude in understanding result of a lack of support and being systems, and higher levels of autistic excluded from education and work. traits. Those 600,000 people also We owe autistic people a huge debt of took the Empathy Quotient and the gratitude for the role their genes have Systemizing Quotient. We found you played in human progress, and we have can divide people into 5 brain types a moral responsibility to ensure no based on whether they lean more group of individuals are deprived of their towards empathy or systemizing. Those human rights to education, employment who lean more towards empathy are and participation in society. It’s time for Type E. Those who lean more towards a change. We can learn from the Israeli systemizing are Type S. And those who army that has a special unit who only are extreme Type S systemize non-stop, recruit autistic adults because of their seeing patterns everywhere, but who aptitude to look at thousands of aerial struggle to understand other people’s photographs to look for unexpected thoughts and feelings. We found more patterns that might be a sign of terrorist women are Type E, more men are type activity. They are making sure autistic S, and the majority of autistic people people are included and are playing their are Type S or extreme Type S. So more part in society. evidence of a link between autism and hyper-systemizing. It’s time to embrace the concept of neurodiversity – the idea that brains But is the link between autism and come in many varieties – and none is pattern-seeking genetic? We had the better or worse than another; they are opportunity to work with the personal just different. Professor Baron-Cohen’s book The Pattern Seekers is out now with Allen Lane.

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