Pembroke Rokos Fellow and Tutor in Computer Science Professor Ana Namburete and her team have developed machine learning methods to construct the first digital map showing how the fetal brain matures as pregnancy advances.

We are pleased to announce the renaming of the College’s Graduate Scholarship in Chemistry to the Holger Kramer Memorial Scholarship. The scholarship has been named in memory of Dr Holger Kramer, a former Biochemistry tutor at Pembroke who died suddenly last year.

During the UK Environmental Audit Committee’s 25th Anniversary at Imperial College earlier this year, Pembroke Lecturer in Engineering Dr Nicole Miranda pitched for the Committee to launch an inquiry on heat adaptation in the UK. She won this pitch and last month, the EAC started gathering evidence for an inquiry titled ‘Heat Resilience and Sustainable Cooling’.

Can old medical techniques develop modern medicine? Newrotex Ltd, a biotech firm founded by Pembroke SCR member and alumnus Dr Alex Woods (Graduate Entry Medicine, 2009) and Senior Associate Professor Fritz Vollrath, has developed a medical device which uses silk from moths and spiders – historically used to treat wounds – to now solve the unmet needs in treating large gap nerve injuries.

Dr Chantelle Lewis, Andrew Pitt Junior Research Fellow in Black British Studies, is collaborating with fellow academic Professor Jason Arday for an upcoming book entitled We See Things They’ll Never See: Love, Hope and Neurodiversity.

With Michaelmas 2023 on the horizon and a new cohort of students soon to arrive, the College has first welcomed two new Tutorial Fellows, having admitted two Advisory Fellows to Governing Body earlier this year.

On Friday 15th September we welcomed around 750 prospective applicants and their supporters to Pembroke for our final Undergraduate Open Day of the year. Visitors were welcomed at the Lodge by members of staff, before taking tours of College with our team of friendly student ambassadors who were ready to answer questions about living and studying at Pembroke, life in Oxford, and much more.

We are deeply saddened to share the news that Rose Gough, Lodge Porter, died earlier this month.  Rose has been a constant and welcoming presence at the entrance to Pembroke for almost ten years.  Her striking ability to connect with anyone that walked through our doors gave her a special place in the Pembroke community.

Last month, with support from Pembroke, graduate student Wantoe Wantoe (2022, Master of Public Policy) convened a significant youth summit in Lagos on ‘Advancing African Youth in Global Responsibility and Policy Making’.