Jennifer Redmond, Stipendiary Lecturer at Pembroke College, is attending Parliament to present her chemistry research to a range of politicians and a panel of expert judges, as part of STEM for BRITAIN on Monday 6th March.

It is with great sadness that the College reports the recent death of Supernumerary Fellow Professor John Woodhouse. Professor Woodhouse was Fellow of Italian at Pembroke from 1984 to 1989, before moving to Magdalen College as the first Fiat Serena Professor of Italian.

We are excited to share the success of the Pembroke College Biodiversity Project. Set up in 2021 by a team of undergraduate biologists, the project began with two unassuming and overgrown fields near the Pembroke sports ground, which turned out to be hidden gems of biodiversity potential.

Many of our alumni will have fond memories of the JCR Art Fund, with Pembroke being the first Oxbridge college to establish a student-owned art collection. We spoke to current Treasurer of the Art Fund, Georgia Douglas, who told us about the importance of the art collection to the JCR today.

Having recently received their offers to study at Pembroke, our 2023 Undergraduate Offer Holders were invited to College earlier this month for a chance to look around and to meet current students and members of staff.

Last summer, Pembroke student Jan Luboiński (2018, MBiol Biology) took part in a 5-week research internship at the Knowles Lab in Oxford, studying new questions about the formation of the gut microbiome.

We are excited to share with you the work of one of our alumni, Denise Swanborn (2016, MSc Biodiversity, Conservation and Management) and previous staff member Bastiaan van Dalen, who was part of our lodge team from 2018-2019! Bastiaan is now a PhD researcher at the University of Exeter.

For the UK's 16th National Apprenticeship Week (NAW), we are asking our Library Management and Archive Apprentice, Brooke Cunningham, to share her experience so far at Pembroke. NAW celebrates the achievements of our apprentices, and highlights the positive impact apprenticeships make to individuals, businesses and the wider economy.

Last year, Janina Branke (2019, MEng Engineering Science) completed a summer internship as a Technology Innovation Engineer at BP. Her projects supported progress in renewable energy: one developing a robotic arm for electric vehicle charging, and the other determining methods to improve the circularity of offshore wind farms.