WolfsonPlus gives members the opportunity to keep up-to-date with current news from Wolfson. More in-depth information about Fellows' research is profiled here, as well as articles from alumni, students and other College members.
Vic Annells
Wolfson student Vic Annells will be graduating with an MSt in International Relations at Congregation on 21 July and was appointed HM Consul for Milan in April 2011. We asked him to describe his time at Wolfson and his reaction to the appointment. Read on...
Boat Naming Ceremony
On a snowy Sunday in March 2012 following Lent Bumps, members and Friends of the Wolfson College Boat Club gathered by the river – with Pimms! – to celebrate the naming of three new boats. Read more...
Sam Thomas & Lorna Moore
Sam and Lorna were students at Wolfson in 2007 and 2008. Here, Sam recounts this year’s Burns Night Formal Hall.
“It happens every year, and it’s the opportunity to celebrate Scotland’s most revered bard, Robert Burns, and debate whether or not to eat the haggis. However, for me and my co-speaker, who were kindly invited to toast the lassies and laddies, this was also an opportunity to address the opposite sex with all those keenly felt irritations. As ever, Wolfson did not disappoint; the evening passed with much merriment, fine food, enthusiastic bag piping and an energetic Ceilidh.” Read on for the full toast speeches...
Meredith Hale
Meredith Hale is Speelman Fellow at Wolfson College and in September 2011 organised a conference on Netherlandish Art in Cambridge. Here she explains the background. Read more….
John Naughton
John Naughton’s new book – From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg: what you really need to know about the Internet, has just been published by Quercus Books. We asked him to explain how he came to write it. More...
Vincent Qi
Vincent Qi Xiaoguang is an Executive MBA student at Wolfson College. In November 2011 he organised a Cross-Cultural Management and Innovation Seminar in the OCR (Old Combination Room). Read more...
Michael O'Sullivan
Michael O’Sullivan studied for the MPhil in Linguistics at Wolfson in 1984. After a career with the British Council, much of it spent in China, he returned to Cambridge in 2008 to become Director of Cambridge Commonwealth and Overseas Trusts. He is now a Fellow of Wolfson. Read Michael's description of his work running a charity to support Cambridge’s international students.
Faris Nasrallah
The recent uprisings in the Arab world have led to a wave of revolutions, civil wars and protests across the region. Alumnus and solicitor Faris Nasrallah (2007) assesses the effect of these demonstrations on Arab legal systems.
Royal Visits to Wolfson College
There have been a number of Royal visits to Wolfson College in its last 46 years. Photographs of these occasions are recorded here.
Eoin MacDonald-Nethercott
Dr Eoin MacDonald-Nethercott came to Wolfson in 2003 to study for the Graduate Course in Medicine, following an undergraduate degree in Psychology, with particular emphasis on perception and cognitive neuropsychology. Before undertaking his course at Wolfson, he had worked as a Nursing Auxiliary for those in the advanced stages of dementia, had been a skiing and snowboarding instructor for disabled people and regularly participated in adventure racing: a team event which is a combination of orienteering and triathlon. Recently, he was recruited to conduct a European Space Agency (ESA) experiment in Antarctica to see how people are affected by a long period of isolation in an extreme environment, in preparation for a future mission to Mars. Read more of his experiences from his diary.
Conor Bowman
Conor Bowman studied for the LLM at Wolfson in 1989 and is now an accomplished writer and novelist, with recent published titles including Wasting By Degrees, The Last Estate and The Redemption of George Baxter Henry. His latest short story, Hugo’s Hurricane, is available to read here.
Press Fellows
Four journalists from around the world joined the College as Press Fellows for the 2011 Easter term. Professor John Naughton, Director of the Press Fellowship Programme, profiles them here.
Visiting Fellow Bill Lubenow
Visiting Fellow Bill Lubenow is a familiar and welcome figure at Wolfson. Here, the Professor of History at Richard Stockton College, New Jersey, writes of his first sabbatical at Wolfson in 1982, and of friends made and publications written during visits since then.