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.

Our annual Long Service Awards celebrate staff who have dedicated more than a decade to the College. This year’s awards ceremony in Broadgates Hall recognised six members of staff with a collective 125 years of committed service. 

New Pembroke JRF, Revd Dr Oliver Wright, who has joined the Religion and Frontier Challenges postdoctoral fellowship programme, recently spoke at Harvard at a conference on Theology and AI. 

Pembroke runners would have made our former Master, Sir Roger Bannister, proud last weekend with their excellent performance at Cross Country Cuppers.