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Lord John Alderdice Elected to Honorary Fellowship at Pembroke College

We are delighted to announce that Lord John Alderdice has been elected to an Honorary Fellowship in recognition of his distinguished political and academic career.

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Believe in Him Installation Visits Pembroke

Believe in Him, created by Utah artist Tom Holdman in collaboration with the Roots of Humanity Foundation, is a 32-foot long stained glass exhibit which has travelled between Rome, Paris and London. During the recent vacation, the travelling exhibition spent a week in Pembroke's Hall and Chapel, where it was enjoyed by students, staff and visitors.

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The Ordered Universe at Cheltenham Science Festival

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Dr Hannah Smithson, Pembroke Fellow in Experimental Psychology, is a key collaborator in a study of how a medieval bishop’s theories inspired modern thinking about colour conception and the rainbow.

The Bishop in question, Robert Grosseteste, was a medieval scholar whose investigations into the nature of light - De colore (On Colour), De iride (On the Rainbow), and De luce (On light) - provide a unique insight into the longer story of human understanding of natural phenomena.

Dr Smithson and her colleagues' work focuses not only on increasing our understanding of colour and natural phenomena but also aims to engage the public by recreating Robert Grosseteste's experiments.

Most recently Dr Smithson and The Ordered Universe team presented at the Cheltenham Science Festival in 2015 and have been published in The Conversation which can be found here.

A short video explaining more about The Ordered Universe Project can be found here.