It is with great sadness that the College has learnt of the death of Mr Antonio Aguilar, a much-loved member of the Pembroke community who served for 50 years as SCR Butler.

Pembroke’s JCR Access and Outreach Representative, Lennon Airey (2024, History), has co-founded an independent free mentorship programme for state school students across the Northeast of England. Featured on ITV News and BBC Radio 1, State Elevate pairs undergraduates from top UK universities with students from North East schools and colleges, offering free support for university applications.

Honorary Fellow and alumnus Tarik O'Regan (1996, BA Music) recently featured in the Guardian and a BBC Radio 3 documentary where he explored the impact of AI on the music industry. 

Pembroke College alumna Laura Cross (née Carr, 2001, Jurisprudence) has been recognised at the 2025 Best Business Women Awards for her work inspiring children through creative STEM education.

Michaelmas Term is here, so what better time to introduce our MCR (Middle Common Room) President for the new academic year: Isabela Linares. We recently spoke to Isabela who gave us an insight into Pembroke’s postgraduate community. 

Designed to emulate 'a week in the life of an Oxford undergraduate', Access Week is our annual summer residential for pupils from our target regions participating in our Access and Outreach programmes. We welcomed 120 pupils who participated in tutorials, seminars, mock interviews, academic trips, and much more.

Michaelmas term is fast approaching, which can only mean one thing – an onslaught of Freshers will be imminently arriving to Oxford and Pembroke. Starting university can be a big transition for anyone. We thought we’d ask one of our fresh graduates, Rohit Ghosh, to reflect on his time at Pembroke, looking all the way back to his own Freshers’ week.

Visiting Fellow Professor Jack Werner talks about his research on developing imaging techniques to capture the living human retina, conducted during his time at Pembroke as part of his Leverhulme Visiting Professorship.

This August, Smithsonian-Pembroke Junior Research Fellow Dr Sruthi M. Krishna Moorthy organised The Interdisciplinary Summer School on Forest Ecosystems, a vibrant event hosted at the University of Oxford which brings together a global community of forest researchers.