The 80th annual Freshers’ Varsity Match took place earlier this month, and saw some of our Pembroke athletes secure well-deserved wins. 

Pembroke alumnus and creator of popular TV programme Survivor, Charlie Parsons (1976, English), has produced a new play based on the hugely successful book and film series The Hunger Games. 

We are pleased to share that alumnus Mr Michael Borkan has recently given a generous gift to establish the Abraham and Henrietta Brettschneider Cornell Exchange Fund at Pembroke. 

In November, our newest Scholars and Exhibitioners were formally admitted in an evening dedicated to celebrating the talent and success of Pembroke undergraduates who have excelled in public examinations, as well as those in receipt of a music or choral scholarship at Pembroke.

Professor Theo Maarten van Lint, Pembroke’s Calouste Gulbenkian Professor of Armenian Studies, was recently awarded the Movses Khorenatsi medal by the President of the Republic of Armenia. 

Earlier this term the Master and Fellows unveiled a stone carving in the Chapel Quad honouring alumnus and lifelong friend of Pembroke, Dr Damon Wells.

Last month, Pembroke was the backdrop for the first Oxford University and Karolinska Institutet collaboration research seminar across mental health and epidemiology. 

In recent months we have been pleased to welcome four new Fellows to Pembroke’s Governing Body, along with the election of one Honorary Fellow.

Pembroke has received a ‘Highly Commended’ award at the 2025 Oxford Preservation Trust Awards for our recent retrofit and refurbishment of Staircases 13-15 in North Quad.