Congratulations to Robinson postgraduate student Andrew Fischer, a Harding Distinguished Postgraduate Scholar, who has been awarded a Japanese Studies Fellowship by the Japan Foundation to conduct doctoral research at Kumamoto University for twelve months. 

The Japan Foundation was established by the Government of Japan and offers a select number of fellowships to outstanding doctoral students each year. This is a fully funded fellowship.
 

Tom Blomfield and Surbhi Sarna, Group Partners at Y Combinator are coming to Robinson College on Wednesday 1 May at 6:00pm!

Before YC, Tom was co-founder of Monzo, one of the first app-based challenger banks in the UK. Surbhi was the founder and former CEO of nVision Medical, which developed a first-in-kind microcatheter for the detection of ovarian cancer.

Tom and Surbhi will share their founding stories and answer questions based on their experience and what they’ve seen from advising YC startups. Time for Q&A, and a reception with food and drinks will follow.

We’re delighted to announce Robinson College alumnus, Francis Bushell, is performing as a soloist with the Cambridge University Orchestra on 4 May at West Road Concert Hall.

HAYDN, MOZART and RAMEAU | Cambridge University Orchestra
When: May 4, 2024 7:30 pm
Where: West Road Concert Hall
https://www.cmp.cam.ac.uk/Haydn

Mr David Reynolds retires today as our Head Porter, after 5 years with the College.  Prior to his time at Robinson he spent 37 years on Britain’s railways, leaving as the Chief Signalling Inspector and a Royal Train Operations Inspector.  On behalf of the entire College, we extend our heartfelt gratitude to you David, for your years of service and commitment to Robinson. We wish you all the best for the next chapter ahead!

Congratulations to the Cambridge Sailing team who came first at the open BUSA Team Racing Championships at Grafham Water Sailing Club. Robinson student Gordon Cogan Sivarajan (Natural Sciences, 2020) was part of the crew who were victorious after three days of racing.

Full results and some more info here: 
An article from the CUCrC (cambridge university cruising club, our dinghy sailing club) website: 

This year's Women in Science Festival ran at Robinson College from 8th-9th April 2024. We welcomed 40 young people from state schools across the UK - from Torquay to Belfast, and Leeds to Gloucester - to Robinson College for two intensive days of science activities. Almost all the students came from Widening Participation backgrounds, and all were on track to achieve the grades needed to apply to Cambridge University should they wish to. The Festival was a great success, with lots of positive feedback. 

Congratulations to Robinson PhD student Toby Ashworth who has won an award from the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFTSS) for the best published essay by a doctoral student in 2023, full list here:

Paula López Caballero is a Mexican historian and anthropologist working as a full-time tenured professor at the National University of Mexico (UNAM) and Research Associate at CLAS (University of Cambridge). The transversal hypothesis of her research is to understand the indigenous/non-indigenous divide, not as a given but as a highly unstable and elusive boundary and as an analytical problem in its own right. She is currently preparing a new monograph, tentatively titled Experts of Everyday Life. A history of ‘fieldwork’ in Mexico and the U.S., 1940-1960.