Pembroke alumnus and philanthropist Dr Thomas S. Kaplan has committed over £4 million to the College to establish the Recanati-Kaplan Minerva Institute — the world’s first-ever interdisciplinary research centre dedicated to tackling urgent global challenges at the intersection of environmental conservation and security.

Professor Yimon Aye has been awarded the Corday-Morgan Mid-Career Prize for Chemistry in the Royal Society of Chemistry’s 2026 Prizes for her pioneering contributions to the development of live-cell-based tools that can elucidate, reprogramme and chemically manipulate biological signalling mechanisms.

We were delighted to welcome award-winning author Brandon Sanderson earlier this term to deliver Pembroke’s 2026 J.R.R. Tolkien Lecture on Fantasy Literature.