Report to Donors to Collegiate Cambridge 2012-13

A gift to Cambridge changes lives.

Report to Donors to Collegiate Cambridge 2012 — 2013

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Physical Sciences and Technology

A gift to Cambridge changes lives. From first year undergraduates to final year PhD students, your gifts support extraordinary young people who would not otherwise be able to benefit from our life-changing education. Your gifts enable world-leading research from neuroscience to green energy, from cancer, dementia and public health to language, culture and global governance.

Your gifts allow us to mentor and advise school-aged children with the talent to study at Cambridge but who have never before been encouraged to apply. Your gifts sustain and enrich the inspiring collegiate environment of Cambridge, which is at the heart of what makes this an unrivalled place to teach, learn and conduct research.

So, our gratitude to you is not only on behalf of this great institution. Rather, it is an expression of the collective thanks that those whose lives have been touched by your gifts owe to you.

Just as the impact of your giving is felt by people all across the world, so in this year’s report we focus on the diversity of our donors: our supporters span the globe, covering six continents and over 100 countries. We also take this opportunity to thank those of you who choose to give your time to Cambridge, whether as ambassadors and advisors to the University, as mentors to current students, or as co-ordinators of our global alumni network.

Our donors span the globe and their gifts the whole spectrum of our mission, but they share two things in common. Firstly, they share a common belief that giving to Cambridge makes the world a better place. Secondly, and most crucially, all of our supporters have our deepest and most sincere gratitude.

We hope that this report gives you an insight into how your gifts are changing lives and into the large and diverse community that you belong to as one of our supporters.

Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz

Vice-Chancellor

Professor A. David Yates

Warden, Robinson College and Chairman of the Colleges’ Committee

“Your gifts support

extraordinary young people who would not otherwise be able to benefit from our lifechanging education.

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Contents

Student pioneers

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Sacred storerooms

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Biodiversity in action

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Enabling life-changing education

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Classics in action

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Investing in medicine

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Leading the fight against MS

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Objective history

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Economy of thought

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Rethinking society

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Materials Science landmark

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Changing Cambridge

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Making sense of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s

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Model research

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Polar champion

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Easy oars

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Research haven

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Antipodean adventure

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Building on talent

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Encouraging excellence

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Focused research 28 Policy makers

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Changing lives

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The Guild of Cambridge Benefactors

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The Vice-Chancellor’s Circle

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A charismatic polymath

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Student pioneers

Cambridge University Eco Racing (CUER) is a group of 60 students from a range of academic disciplines that designs, builds and races solar-powered vehicles.

The team’s cars showcase cutting-edge sustainable engineering and demonstrate the incredible potential of electric vehicle technologies. By designing cars that run on solar power alone, they are driving change in vehicle efficiency and new technology for a low-carbon future.

CUER races in the World Solar Challenge, the world’s foremost solar endurance race held biennially in Australia. As a not-for-profit organisation it relies almost entirely on donations and corporate sponsorship and the team’s 2013 car, Resolution, was supported by more than 200 individuals and 20 companies, in particular the Hauser-Raspe Foundation, Rosalind and David Cleevely, Robert Sansom and Ronjon Nag.

CUER’s 2013 car, Resolution, in the grounds of Girton College

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Sacred storerooms

A Genizah is a sacred storeroom in a synagogue, set aside to preserve writings that contain the name of God. The Ben Ezra Synagogue in Fustat (Old Cairo) is perhaps the oldest in Egypt, and its Genizah is among the most important sources for Jewish Studies ever discovered. Its historical significance is similar to the Dead Sea Scrolls. Unusually, in this particular Genizah, contracts, receipts and letters were also interred alongside liturgical, Biblical and Rabbinic texts. For this reason, the Cairo Genizah provides an invaluable historical source.

“I was drawn into Genizah research because of the amazing number of fresh historical sources that it allows you to examine,” enthuses Dr Ben Outhwaite, Head of the University Library’s Genizah Research Unit. “Because so many Genizah documents were written by regular members of society, my research allows me the opportunity to give a voice to people who are often forgotten in history.”

Ben has further reason to be excited. This year, the generosity of a community of donors led by the Polonsky Foundation, the Second Joseph Aaron Littman Foundation and the Bonita Trust has saved a collection of priceless documents from the Cairo Genizah chronicling 1000 years of history. The appeal to purchase the collection was the first ever joint fundraising effort between the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford.

“Manuscripts started to emerge from the Cairo Genizah in the 1890s”, Ben explains. “Twin sisters and pioneering biblical scholars Agnes Lewis and Margaret Gibson discovered that the contents were being sold-off by local traders and so they hurriedly bought around 1,700 documents as they passed through Cairo while on an expedition to the Sinai.” The manuscripts saved by the sisters include the earliest known example of a Jewish engagement deed (dating from 1119), an eyewitness account of Crusader atrocities by a female refugee, and autograph writings by leading Jewish thinkers and writers such as the philosopher Moses Maimonides and Joseph ibn Abitur the poet.

The Lewis-Gibson Genizah Collection was held at the United Reformed Church’s Westminster College until 2013. The documents will now undergo careful conservation and then be digitised and made freely available online through Cambridge Digital Library (cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk), sharing this important collection with a global audience. A public exhibition looking at the collection – and the extraordinary twin sisters who played such a vital role in its discovery – will be held in 2016 at Cambridge University Library.

It is with great sadness that we learned of the recent death of Roby Littman, whose enthusiastic support was essential to the success of the appeal for the collection.

17% of funds raised by Collegiate Cambridge in 2012 – 2013 was for collections

“The generosity of a

community of donors led by the Polonsky Foundation, the Second Joseph Aaron Littman Foundation and the Bonita Trust has saved a collection of priceless documents from the Cairo Genizah.

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Ms Lucy Cheng, conservator, working on a medieval manuscript from the Lewis-Gibson Cairo Genizah Collection

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Architect’s impression showing the aerial view of the CCI Campus

11 Biodiversity in action

Bringing about the step changes needed to address the current unprecedented rates of biodiversity loss requires urgent and innovative action – and the Cambridge Conservation Initiative (CCI) is working to make this happen.

The Initiative is a collaboration between the University and nine leading, internationally focused biodiversity conservation organisations based in and around Cambridge. CCI brings together representatives of governments, intergovernmental bodies, the private sector, academia and other members of the conservation community both in Cambridge and further afield. Increasingly, it is being called upon to provide scientific evidence, analysis and convening opportunities worldwide.

Dr Mike Rands is the executive director of CCI. “The scale and diversity of biodiversity conservation expertise within Cambridge presents a unique opportunity to have a transformational effect on biodiversity conservation at a global level. CCI’s ability to harness this expertise, across disciplines and organisations, increases our chances of finding and implementing solutions to the thorniest issues facing our planet and its biodiversity”.

The Initiative has fostered a number of innovative programmes designed to encourage and support collaboration across disciplines and between partners. One of the most exciting developments of the last year was the commencement of work on the Conservation Campus. Made possible through significant investment from the MAVA Foundation, the Garfield Weston Foundation and the A G Leventis Foundation, the Conservation Campus will become a hub for biodiversity conservation expertise in central Cambridge.

“This most generous investment in our Conservation Campus has enabled CCI to design and create shared collaborative working spaces where conservation researchers and practitioners can generate new ideas, develop potentially gamechanging approaches and foster behaviour change for the benefit of the natural world on which our own well-being and future depends,” says Dr Rands.

“The Conservation Campus will be a dynamic and innovative centre of conservation research, practice and expertise. From the outset, the design of the building has been planned to maximise collaboration between its inhabitants, from airy working spaces to a multi-purpose common room.”

The Campus was launched in April 2013 in the presence of HRH The Duke of Edinburgh and Sir David Attenborough. It will be home to over 500 conservation professionals from within the University and the Initiative’s partner organisations – and act as a magnet for biodiversity expertise worldwide. Practicing what they preach, the Campus will include measures to encourage urban biodiversity and create an exemplar green roof.

The reach and impact of CCI stretches far beyond Cambridge. Through its network, CCI has an active presence in over 180 countries and is involved in over 40 innovative conservation projects. To date CCI’s collaborations have brought together more than 200 conservationists working on a diverse range of issues, ranging from livelihoods, ecosystem services and leadership to climate change, food security and green economies.

In the words of Sir David Attenborough: “The Cambridge Conservation Initiative is an extraordinary marriage between outstanding practical conservationists and inspiring intellectual thinkers which will shape the future of life on Earth.”

“The Cambridge

Conservation Initiative is an extraordinary marriage between outstanding practical conservationists and inspiring intellectual thinkers which will shape the future of life on Earth.

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Enabling life-changing education

Classics in action

Cambridge wants to educate those who will benefit the most; but some of those who secure the grades that would make them eligible for entry to Cambridge do not apply. Some of these students lack the aspiration to try for entry; others simply are not exposed to the idea that they could do so.

Some are deterred by misconceptions about the University. What many of them share is that they are not connected to a wider group of academically able students for whom aspiration is the norm.

The Faculty of Classics is preeminent in the study of classics and is led by an outstanding team of scholars.

It is committed to attracting students with the highest academic potential, regardless of their educational background. The Faculty achieves this via an extensive programme of outreach projects designed to engage as many people as possible from all walks of life, many of whom would not otherwise have encountered Classics. A donation from Brian Buckley, a longstanding supporter of Classics and Cambridge, has enabled this vital outreach work to continue.

This is the problem that the HE+ initiative seeks to address. Students taking part attend subject extension classes and workshops with other students drawn from across a consortium of schools and colleges in their local area, and travel to Cambridge for day visits and residential events. In the 2013/14 academic year 2,000 school leavers in over 50 schools are taking part in HE+.

A donation from Harvey McGrath in 2013 has allowed the University to expand this initiative, which is now active in Manchester, Belfast, Swansea, Huddersfield, Stourbridge, Hereford, Rotherham, Liverpool, Preston, Wigan, Hampshire and Cumbria.

“Cambridge wants to educate those who will benefit the most

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Investing in medicine

Objective history

The Evelyn Trust supports a significant amount of medical research at the University, recently including research into paediatric inflammatory bowel disease, genetic studies for Huntington’s disease and new tests for dementia. The Trust is also supporting the extension of the Addenbrooke’s Clinical Research Centre – the University’s clinical trials facility through which new treatments are trialled on local volunteers.

Nearly 70 years after Robert Whipple’s donation of scientific instruments and rare books to the University, his grandchildren and their families have stepped in to protect his donation – and the entire collection at the Whipple Museum of the History of Science – by establishing a permanent conservation fund.

The Evelyn Cambridge Surgical Training Centre is another project which has received the support of the Trust. In September 2013 the Vice-Chancellor officially opened the centre in a landmark event for Cambridge University Health Partners. The Vice-Chancellor said of the facility: “It will provide an excellent environment within our region for the training of the surgeons of tomorrow, both in the UK and abroad, and provide an essential link between the health service and industry, paving the way for new developments in surgical techniques and devices.”

Leading the fight against MS

Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is the most common potentially disabling disease to affect young adults and there are currently more than 100,000 sufferers in the UK. Professor Alastair Compston is the Head of the Department of Clinical Neurosciences at Cambridge where, in addition to treating patients at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, he conducts worldleading research into the treatment of MS. Professor Compston was responsible for introducing and developing the drug Alemtuzumab into what is now a highly effective licensed treatment for this debilitating disease; and he has led the discovery of more than 100 genetic risk variants through work of the International Multiple Sclerosis Genetics Consortium. A generous gift from the Horne Family Foundation has provided vital support to this pioneering work.

The fund will allow the Museum to commission specialist care for the varied and ever-expanding collection of over 7,000 items – from the brass and glass of the eighteenth century through to the modern items of the twentieth century. A very rare Portuguese mariner’s compass made by Joseph da Costa Miranda in 1711 is one of the first items that will benefit from essential conservation work.

With the backing of the permanent conservation fund from the Whipple family, the Museum is also better able to leverage additional funding and support, including the completion of a conservation assessment of the Museum’s entire collection in 2013.

Professor Liba Taub, Director of the Museum, commented: “The Whipple Museum is not just a place to come and visit; this is a research lab. Objects in our collection are actively studied by students in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, as well as other researchers. Of course, some things naturally deteriorate over time, and this fund will allow us to halt that decline, and ensure that the collection can continue to be used, studied, and enjoyed.”

18% of funds raised by Collegiate Cambridge was used for discovery

15 25 Economy of thought

Rethinking society

In the context of financial crises, persistent unemployment, rising inequality and intense pressure on government budgets, economists around the world recognise that received wisdom needs to be reassessed. As a result economists at the University of Cambridge have joined forces with the New York-based Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) to adopt new approaches to understanding how our economy and the associated financial system really work.

The Cambridge-INET Institute was set up with a benefaction from INET, the Keynes Fund for Applied Economics, Mohamed El-Erian, the Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance, the Isaac Newton Trust and the Faculty of Economics.

The greatest challenges facing society today cannot be solved with science and technology alone.

Social, economic and political realities constrain what societies can accept. With this in mind, a new community of scholars funded by the Philomathia Foundation will seek to increase Cambridge’s dialogue and engagement with public policy makers.

Joseph da Costa Miranda’s Portuguese mariner’s compass 1711 held at the Whipple Museum

The first two issues to be tackled by the Philomathia Research Associates are: the relationship between education, reproductive patterns, attitudes to infertility and public policy; and how different measurements of inequality have shaped perception and public debate of social problems in both historical and contemporary contexts.

Materials Science landmark

The new building for the Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy on the West Cambridge site opened in October 2013, with support from The Ann D Foundation, the Armourers & Brasiers’ Gauntlet Trust, Anne Glover CBE, The Wolfson Foundation and The Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths.

The building for the first time provides a single purpose-designed home for the Department and ensures that Cambridge continues to be one of the world’s leading centres for materials science.

36% of funds raised by the University in 2012 – 2013 was for the School of Physical Sciences

Brickwork of the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy Building

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Changing Cambridge

A full list of donors to the buildings at West Cambridge have been included since 2000 only

Philanthropy has shaped the development of the pioneering West Cambridge site since the 1950s.

Gifts have enabled the construction of world-class buildings that sit side by side with local, national and international industry partners. This tailor-made environment fosters the collaboration which ensures Cambridge maintains its world-leading position in science and technology.

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06 – Roger Needham Building Professor Roger Michael Needham (Deceased) and numerous other individual donors

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07 – Nanoscience Centre The Wolfson Foundation

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08 – Centre for Advanced Photonics and Electronics UK Higher Education Funding Council and CAPE’s strategic partners in Industry

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09 – Physics of Medicine The Wolfson Foundation

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10 – Kavli Institute for Cosmology The Kavli Foundation

2009

11 – Institute for Manufacturing The Gatsby Charitable Foundation, The Reece Foundation, Tsunehiko Yamazaki, Gerald Avison and Michael Marshall

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01 – Department of Veterinary Medicine

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02 – Whittle Laboratory Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd

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03 – Cavendish Laboratories comprises the Mott, Bragg, Rutherford and Kapitza Buildings, the Microelectronics Research Centre and the Magnetic Resonance Research Centre

04 – The Queens Veterinary School Hospital

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05 – William Gates Building Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and numerous other individual donors

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12 – Broers Building, Hauser Forum The Hauser-Raspe Foundation

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13 – Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy The Wolfson Foundation, The Ann D Foundation, The Armourers & Brasiers’ Gauntlet Trust, Ms Anne Glover CBE and The Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths

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14 – Sports Centre Numerous individual donors

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15 – Battcock Centre for Experimental Astrophysics Humphrey W Battcock The Wolfson Foundation

2015 Under construction

16 – The Maxwell Centre The Winton Programme, Hitatchi Ltd., ToshibaLtd., the Wellcome Trust, the Raymond & Beverly Sackler Foundation, Tata Steel and HEFCE.

2015 Under construction

17 – Dept of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology The Wolfson Foundation

Microscopic photograph of the hippocampus demonstrating the characteristics of Alzheimer’s disease

21 Making sense of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s

The development of new treatments for diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s is one step closer thanks to the generous support of the Frances and Augustus Newman Foundation.

Through the support of a Next Generation Fellowship funded by the Foundation, Dr Tuomas Knowles’ research in the Department of Chemistry is advancing the understanding of the underlying molecular causes of some of the most rapidly proliferating neurodegenerative diseases of the modern world.

“There are no disease modifying therapies for Alzheimer’s and dementia at the moment, only limited treatment for symptoms. We have to solve what happens at the molecular level before we can progress and have real impact.”

In 2013, his group did just that. By mapping the pathway that causes the structure of protein molecules within cells to become corrupted – which then sets off a chain reaction, leading to the death of neurons in the brain which cause loss of memory and other symptoms of dementia – they pinpointed the catalytic trigger for the onset of a neurodegenerative condition.

“We are essentially using physical and chemical methods to address a biomolecular problem, mapping out the networks of processes and dominant mechanisms to ‘recreate the crime scene’ at the molecular root of Alzheimer’s disease. We’ve now established the pathway that shows how the toxic species that cause cell death are formed. This is the key pathway to detect, target and intervene – the molecular catalyst that underlies the pathology.”

The ground-breaking research that Tuomas is leading will in time have a central role in diagnostic and drug development for dementia-related diseases.

The need for these diagnostics, treatments and cures is becoming even more urgent as our as populations continue to increase and live longer. Now they’ve found the trigger for dementia-related diseases, the next step is discovering how to turn it off. Findings of the research are pointing to future increased capabilities for earlier diagnosis of neurological conditions, and the opening up of possibilities for a new generation of targeted drugs.

15% of funds raised by the University in

2012 – 2013 was for Clinical Medicine and Biological Sciences

“The ground-breaking

research that Tuomas is leading will in time have a central role in diagnostic and drug development for dementiarelated diseases.

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Model research

In 2013, The Alborada Trust significantly increased their investment in the Alborada Fund in Equine and Farm Animal Science in the Department of Veterinary Science. Through this support, Dr Andrew Conlan was awarded the Alborada Post-doctoral Fellowship in Epidemiology.

Working in the Department for the past five years – and studying and working in the Department of Zoology and the Faculty of Mathematics at Cambridge before that – Andrew brings together a unique combination of mathematics, statistics and biology. His research is helping us to better understand and predict the spread of infectious diseases which is of relevance not just to other scientists working in the field but also public health professionals, policy makers, governments and international organisations.

“Mathematical models are necessary to understand the population dynamics that drive transmission of infectious diseases. From a policy point of view, mathematical modelling is important because it influences public health decisions about vaccinations in people and animals.”

Andrew’s work spans both the numbers behind infectious diseases and the public outreach in front of them.

In the past year he has succeeded in producing a quantitative evidence base on the opportunities and challenges associated with the potential use of a BCG vaccination for cattle. This ground-breaking modelling work is being presented to government and public health representatives and is already informing the design of large-scale field trials of the BCG vaccine for cattle in Britain. Ultimately it is hoped that this will help to refine future cattle control, testing and vaccination programmes.

Starting back in the Faculty of Mathematics, Andrew has pioneered the use of public engagement as a research tool to obtain information on social contact networks relevant for the transmission of infectious diseases.

He works with schools, through visits and videoconferencing, to get children engaged around mathematics and the spread of infectious disease, and at the same time, gets the children to collect data. He says: “This approach is a nice mix because the kids are involved in an actual scientific research project, they’re learning about the use of mathematics in a context they had probably not thought about before and we get a lot of important data that would ordinarily be difficult to obtain.” The data being gathered from participating schools nationwide is allowing him to analyse the spatial movements of children and how this affects the transmission of diseases such as measles.

With growing, changing and migrating populations, new outbreaks of disease and the emergence of new strains of disease, mathematical modelling has become even more important in infectious disease epidemiology and control.

Andrew’s work on diseases such as bovine tuberculosis has the potential to contribute to their control and possible eradication.

28% of funds raised by Collegiate Cambridge was used to invest in staff

“The kids are involved

in an actual scientific research project, they’re learning about the use of mathematics in a context they had probably not thought about before.

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Dr Andrew Conlan, Alborada Postdoctoral Fellow of Epidemiology

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Frank Debenham and plane table September 1911

25 Polar champion

The course of history often turns on small events, and Frank Debenham could never have guessed the significance of a minor knee injury he got while playing football in the snow.

But Debenham was a geologist on Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s Terra Nova expedition to Antarctica and the injury was enough to prevent him from joining the trip south to the Pole. Were it not for this sporting mishap, he may well have died in 1912 with Captain Scott along with his close friends Lawrence Oates and Edward Wilson.

Instead, he came to the relative peace of Cambridge to write up his field notes and work at ensuring the legacy of polar research.

By 1914 he was fighting in the First World War. He was badly wounded in action and later made OBE. When Scott’s diary was discovered, the last entry read: “For God’s sake, please look after our people.” The public response to this plea was overwhelming and some of the funds were used to establish the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge, with Debenham, by now a fellow of Gonville and Caius College, as its founder director.

He originally had the idea for a polar institute whilst at a camp on the slopes of Mount Erebus on Ross Island in 1912 as a fitting memorial for Scott and the science undertaken on the expedition.

Throughout his life Deb, as he was known, continued to champion polar exploration, offering support and shelter to students and polar travellers until his death in 1965. His name survives in the form of a mountain, a group of six islands each named after his six children and a glacier in Antarctica, among other things, and his spirit through the benefaction of his daughter, the late Barbara Debenham, who died last year. Through her donation, the Debenham Scholars Fund has been established to support post-doctoral polar research.

The involvement of the Debenham family with the Institute has continued more recently, with both Philippa Foster Back and Robin Back, Debenham’s grandchildren, having been recent chairs of the Friends of the Scott Polar Research Institute. In the words of Philippa Foster Back : “As a family we are immensely proud of our polar history and are pleased through Ba’s own legacy to support polar research which was so dear to Grandpa’s heart.”

32% of funds raised by the University in 2012 – 2013 was for Non-School Institutions

“Throughout his life

Deb…continued to champion polar exploration, offering support and shelter to students and polar travellers until his death in 1965.

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Easy oars

Antipodean adventure

Rowing is an increasingly popular sport and, for many students, an integral part of Cambridge life. Two colleges have received new boats thanks to current and previous Presidents. Hughes Hall received the Dr William Squire, a fast Stampfli eight, from College President Sarah Squire, and the boat is named after her husband. Lucy Cavendish commissioned ‘Speedwell’, a Janousek Racing eight, funded by a gift from former College President Dame Veronica Sutherland who “was delighted to give a much needed boost to women’s rowing in Cambridge with the donation for a new Lucy Cavendish boat”. Both boats were launched at a joint naming ceremony on the Cam in June just before Bumps. Mrs Squire said: “I’m very pleased to be able to provide our College rowers with a boat worthy of their skill and determination, and to name it in honour of my husband.”

When she was an undergraduate, Rhiannon McKinnon, née Evans (New Hall 1997), was able to draw on a college travel fund to visit Hong Kong. When she received a legacy from her late father Brian Evans, she was inspired to set up a fund to help students at Murray Edwards College to travel to New Zealand, where she now lives, as part of their studies. New Zealand is a popular destination for study, particularly among veterinary students, and Rhiannon’s generous benefaction will provide substantial support for their travel costs. Rhiannon hopes to meet the recipients during their time in New Zealand.

Research haven

Professor Donald King and Dr Mary King’s gift to endow a visiting fellowship in Pathology at Clare Hall was a celebration of how spending just a short time in Cambridge can leave a lasting impression. Professor King’s career has seen him hold senior posts at Yale, Columbia and Chicago, co-found a successful corporation, and undertake a number of high level US Government appointments and commissions. In amongst all these achievements, he has always looked on the four months he spent as a visiting fellow at Clare Hall in 1976 as a particularly valuable time, in which he was able to make great advances in his own research, far away from his usual commitments.

The Donald West and Mary Elizabeth King Visiting Fellowship in Pathology will ensure that future generations of world-leading researchers can have the same inspirational experience enjoyed by Professor King.

Building on talent

Cambridge is committed to admitting the brightest, most talented students regardless of their financial circumstances. College endowments play a critical role in this, funding bursaries and hardship funds for students who would otherwise be unable to benefit from a Cambridge education.

Professor Stephen Blyth’s support for students, teaching and outreach at Christ’s College spans more than a decade. In recognition of his exceptional generosity, the College was delighted to name a building in honour of Stephen and his family. “My support for Christ’s College aims to strengthen its financial position, so it can offer future generations of students access to the same educational experience and opportunities that I received.”

29,000 alumni gave donations to their Colleges during 2012 – 2013

“I’m very pleased to

be able to provide our College rowers with a boat worthy of their skill and determination.

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From left: Eleanor Robb, YouGov Scholar and Rhys Jones, Wolfson Scholar

29 Encouraging excellence

“Being offered the Wolfson Scholarship was an incredible honour. It is a great recognition to have and you can almost feel unworthy of it.”

The Wolfson Foundation’s gift to graduate students in the humanities is allowing some of our brightest students to pursue ground-breaking inquiry in history, literature and languages, making an impact on their chosen fields.

making predictions and understanding large amounts of information. Google has also provided generous support for the research of Dr Richard Turner, University Lecturer in Computer Vision and Machine Learning in the Department of Engineering, through its Google Faculty Research Award. This has allowed Dr Turner to part-fund a PhD student to join his team working on a project entitled Recognising audio content and removing noise using audio textures.

With the support of the Wolfson Foundation, Rhys Jones is in his first year of PhD studies in History, focusing on the two great men of the 18th century, George Washington and Napoleon Bonaparte.

“What I am trying to do is use their contexts of the French Revolution and the American Revolution and almost pit them against each other as a mirror image to ask what can we learn about the American experience by looking at it as a sister revolution to the French and vice versa. There is understanding to be gained from looking into the past to assess the properties and dynamics of current events. As a broader ambition for my future career, I’m very interested in trying to bring difficult and what are sometimes inaccessible academic ideas to a wider audience.”

Focused research

The Google European Doctoral Fellowship Programme provides financial support to outstanding doctoral students conducting exceptional research in Computer Science or closely related areas. Since the programme’s inception in 2010, five talented Cambridge PhD students have received these prestigious fellowships, which have contributed toward tuition fees, equipment, living expenses and conference and travel costs.

A Google Focused Research Award has been made to Professor Zoubin Ghahramani, Professor of Information Engineering in the Department of Engineering for his project titled Automatic Statistician. The project aims to build an automated system to analyse and interpret data, identify patterns and produce a report that will assist in

Policy makers

“I am eternally grateful to YouGov. Without their support I wouldn’t have been able to do the course and gain this amazing education and experience that will be a life-long foundation for whatever I pursue in policy.”

Cambridge’s Master’s in Public Policy graduates are the problem solvers and critical thinkers of the future. Through governments, businesses and the third sector, they will lead measures to produce clean energy, increase public transport, reduce welfare dependency, improve the quality of education, increase employment and training opportunities for young people, improve the health of the poorest in society, improve the delivery of foreign aid and much more.

Through funding bursaries for students on the new, innovative Master’s in Public Policy course, YouGov are supporting the next generation of national and international policy makers. Eleanor Robb is one of the MPP students who have received vital bursary support this year through the generosity of YouGov. “Policy is always really challenging because you’ve always got such a level of complexity, with so many competing goals and different stakeholders. Policy touches people’s lives every day in a thousand ways that they might not even notice and you really need people that have the skills, knowledge and expertise to develop policy properly to benefit the greatest number of people.

17% of funds raised by Collegiate Cambridge in 2012 – 2013 was for student support

Changing lives

“I had no intention of doing this, you know”, protests Sir Peter Lampl, Founder and Chairman of the Sutton Trust. “I was working on my golf game. I thought maybe I should do something on the side.” But since his decision to found the Trust in 1997, Sir Peter’s work has pushed social mobility to the top of the political agenda and changed thousands of young people’s lives.

“My passion for social mobility comes from my own background and experiences,” Sir Peter explains. “I was state educated, won a place at Oxford University and went on to have a successful career in consultancy and private equity in the USA.” Sir Peter returned to the UK in 1997 and was disappointed with what he found. “I could see that the opportunities for bright children from non- privileged backgrounds were poor and had got worse. I felt I wanted to do something about it,” he says.

The Sutton Trust has a strong relationship with Cambridge, running summer schools with the University for 16 years. These summer schools aim to break down mental and social barriers that stop brilliant young people from applying to top universities such as Cambridge. The Trust is running its biggest ever programme this year: around 2,000 students will attend a UK summer school. Cambridge will host 500 of these students and is the Trust’s largest single summer school programme.

The results of this partnership are clear. “The conversion rate of summer school attendance to admission to Cambridge is high – a very good sign. School kids are always pleasantly surprised that the academics wear jeans, and they’re not all wearing gowns and punting”. The Sutton Trust was admitted to the Guild of Cambridge Benefactors in 2014.

31 The Guild of Cambridge Benefactors

was established in 1998 to recognise the munificence of major benefactors to the University of Cambridge and its Colleges. Listed below are those members who have been welcomed to the Guild as a result of their generous donations.

Donors welcomed as Companions in 2014

Cancer Research UK

Susan Howatch

Graham Rushton

Dr Rosalie Canney

James Hudleston

Gifford Combs

Rita Cavonius

Hutchison Whampoa and Sir Ka-shing Li

Dr Raymond Sackler KBE and Mrs Beverly Sackler

Andrew & William Cook

Professor and Mrs Louis Cha

Yousef Abdul Latif Jameel

Bita Daryabari

Thomas & Grace Chan

Dr David James

The James Dyson Foundation

Leslie W. K. Chung

William and Weslie Janeway

Foundation For the Future

The Coexist Foundation

Dr Ramon Jenkins

John & Ann Haines

C N Corfield

Sir Paul Judge and Lady Judge

Clifford Anthony Ingram

Michael J J Cowan

Dr Mark Kaplanoff

The Jardine Foundation

Veronica Crichton

The Kavli Foundation

Liong Seen & Wai Phin Kwee

The Cripps Foundation

Dr Donald Kellaway

The Sutton Trust

The Cultural and Arts Management Trust

Graham Keniston-Cooper and family

Tsuzuki Gakuen Group

Countess de Brye

Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences

Sir Evelyn de Rothschild Donors welcomed as Companions in 2013

Jim Dickinson Professor Carl Djerassi

Arcadia Fund

Dr Christopher and Mrs Ann Dobson

Christopher & Shirley Bailey

Mr and Mrs Gaylord Donnelley

Professor Peter Baldwin

Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation

Maurice Benavitch

Bruce & Elizabeth Dunlevie

Dr Stuart Cousens

Valerie Eliot

Dr Mohamed A & Mrs Jamie El-Erian

Nancy, Dowager Countess of Enniskillen

The Evolution Education Trust

The Evelyn Trust

Lada Firtash

Dr and Mrs M C Faulkes

Ivan D. Jankovic´

Dmitry Firtash

Open Society Foundations

Eliza and Canning Fok

James & Dorothy Toms

Jessica & Peter Frankopan

The Underwood Trust

Richard Frischmann Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Existing Companions

The Gatsby Charitable Foundation Genzyme Corporation

Alwaleed Bin Talal Foundation

Sir Paul Getty KBE

Dr Denys Armstrong

The Gillespie Family Trust

Tadao Aoi

Dr Dennis Gillings

Mr Dennis Avery and Mrs Sally Tsui Wong-Avery

Glaxo Wellcome (now GlaxoSmithKline plc)

HRH Prince Bandar bin Sultan Abdulaziz Al-Saud

Kyoko Gledhill, in memory of David Gledhill The Government of India

Peter Baldwin and Lisbet Rausing

Professor Philip Grierson

BAT Industries

Guinness (now Diageo plc)

Humphrey Battcock

Dr Chit Chan Gunn

Peter and Paula Beckwith

Dr Yusuf Hamied & Farida Hamied

Robert Beldam

The Hauser-Raspe Foundation

Robin Boyle

The Health Foundation

BP plc

Susan and David Hibbitt

Bristol-Myers Squibb Company

Hitachi Ltd

Brian Buckley

Leif Høegh

The Cadbury family

The Hong Kong Cambridge Medical School Liaison Charity

Cambridge Australia Scholarships Ltd (formerly Cambridge Australia Trust)

Dr Alan Howard

Dr Robert Sansom The Schiff Foundation Schlumberger Dr Scholl Foundation The Schroder Foundation Walter and Rosemary Scott Peter Selman Dame Stephanie Shirley Sinyi Cultural Foundation Dr Herchel Smith Dr Rosalind Smith & Steven Edwards

Raymond & Helen Kwok

SmithKline Beecham (now GlaxoSmithKline plc)

The Kirby Laing Foundation

Freydoun Soudavar and family

Dr Seng Tee Lee

Dr John Sperling

The A.G.Leventis Foundation

Tata Steel

Sir David K P Li and Lady Penny Li

Dr John C Taylor

Professor Y W Loke

Baroness Thatcher and The Margaret Thatcher Foundation

Marks & Spencer Group plc The MAVA Fondation Hamish Maxwell Dr and Mrs D M McDonald Harvey McGrath The Andrew W Mellon Foundation Paul Mellon KBE Merck Sharp & Dohme Ltd Dr William M W Mong Gianni and Joan Montezemolo The Monument Trust Dr Gordon and Mrs Betty Moore Douglas Myers Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahayan Charitable and Humanitarian Foundation Professor Roger Needham & Professor Karen Spärck Jones Ken & Julia Olisa John Osborn PHSA Engage Mutual Health Mark Pigott

Catherine Thomas Professor John Todd Toshiba Corporation Hazel Trapnell Unilever plc Fred van Eck The John and Lucille van Geest Foundation Marie Vergottis Norman Waddleton Sir David Walker Walters Kundert Charitable Trust L. Hoyt & Anne Watson The Wellcome Trust The Westminster Foundation Garfield Weston Foundation Guy Whittaker Frank Peter Wilson James and Jane Wilson Lucia Windsor

Dr Leonard Polonsky

Winston Churchill Foundation of the United States

The David & Elaine Potter Foundation

The Winton Charitable Foundation

HH Dr Sheikh Sultan bin Mohammed Al Qasimi

Woco Foundation

The Märit and Hans Rausing Charitable Foundation Dr Sigrid Rausing Dr Alan Reece Rolls-Royce Group plc N M Rothschild & Sons

The Wolfson Foundation Lord Wolfson of Sunningdale Dr F A Zoëllner

The Vice-Chancellor’s Circle

was created in 2007 as part of the Cambridge 800th Anniversary Campaign. It provides the University and the Colleges with an opportunity to recognise and thank those donors who have provided significant support for key projects and programmes that underpin excellence at Cambridge.

Donors welcomed as members in 2013

HE Mahfouz Marei Mubarak bin Mahfouz, Lord of Abernethy The Clothworkers’ Foundation Hogan Lovells Clive Humby and Edwina Dunn Professor S W (Toby) Jackman Professor Donald West King and Dr Mary Elizabeth King LyondellBasell Industries Hans-Jörg Modlmayr and Hildegard ModlmayrHeimath

David and Terrie Brittain

Dr Tzu Leung and Mrs Stella Ho

Muriel Brittain

F Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd

Dr Philip and Mrs Patricia Brown

Sarah Holt

BT Group plc

The Horse Trust

Sir Adrian Cadbury

Reg Howard

Tim Cadbury

Dr Joyce Hutchinson (née Baker)

Cambridge University Fives & Rackets Association Trust Ltd

Mary V Insall

James Campbell Dr Simon and Mrs Jill Campbell Terry Cann Philip Carne

Institute for Strategic Dialogue Johnson Matthey plc Ann Johnston Dr Sidney Kenderdine Richard King

Dr Robert Paul Pfizer Ltd Philecology Foundation Revd Dr John Polkinghorne QUALCOMM Charles Rawlinson Michael and Sarah Jane Richards Alan C Root Nicholas and Lora Sallnow-Smith James H Schilt Professor Sir Nicholas Shackleton

Simon Palley

Richard Chiu

Dr John and Mrs Elizabeth Phillips

Meileen Choo

Julian Charles Francis Townsend

Citigroup Foundation

Eashwar Viswanathan Krishnan and Tzo Tze Krishnan-Ang

The Traub family

Michael and Susan Clasper

Jerry Lee Foundation

Keith Sykes

Curtin Winsor III

Clifford Chance LLP

Nat le Roux

Robert Tattersall

Anthony Connell

Louis Levi

Audrey Taylor

C S Craig Family Foundation

Anne Lonsdale

UCB

Crausaz Wordsworth

Dr Michael Lynch

Rumi Verjee

Abdullah Mubarak Al Sabah Foundation

Joanna Dannatt

Bevil Mabey

William and Helen West

Chris Adams

Peter and Christina Dawson

Man Group plc

Sir Neil Westbrook

H.H. Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah Prime Minister of the State of Kuwait

Frances Drake

The Manoukian Charitable Foundation

Dr Anthony Wild

The Drapers’ Company

Ina Boeglin Marica

Dr Tony Wilkinson

Alison Duke

D G Marshall of Cambridge Trust

Maria Willetts

George N Appell

East Asian History of Science Foundation Hong Kong

Professor Sir Laurence Martin

Richard Williams

Annie C M Arnold

Stefan Edlis & Gael Neeson Foundation

Robert and Sabrina Martin

WPP plc

AstraZeneca plc

Lady Elton

Marguerite McAvity Price

WYNG Foundation

Vladimijr Attard

The Hon Stephen Evans-Freke and Mrs Valerie Evans-Freke

Kevin and Donna McDonald

Tsunehiko Yamazaki

Robert Andrew McNeil

Emeritus Professor Peter A Young

Existing Members

The Alborada Trust Anglian Water Group

Baker & McKenzie

KPMG LLP

The Esmée Fairbairn Foundation

Scott Mead

Dr Margaret Barton

The Allan and Nesta Ferguson Charitable Trust

Dr Jonathan Milner and Mrs Rosy Gounaris-Milner

Christopher Bartram

Derek Finlay

Sir Mark and Lady Moody-Stuart

Judy and David Beech

Ford Foundation

Mulberry Trust

Edward and Sally Benthall

The Foyle Foundation

Frances and Augustus Newman Foundation

Bharti Foundation

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Stavros Niarchos Foundation

Dr Stephen Blyth

Dr Albert D and Nancy Friedberg

Nihon University

Graham Boeckh Foundation

Professor Ronald Girdler

Neil Ostrer

Peter Boizot

Gurnee F Hart

Kevin Overstall

The Bonita Trust

Cecil Hawkins

Dr Alan Oxley

Isabelle Bouhon

Michael and Morven Heller

Prabir Kumar Pal

Dr Margaret Branthwaite

Herbert Smith Freehills LLP

Professor Monica Partridge

Harold Barkley

Joan Simms Dr Alan E Smith John and Elizabeth Ann Stancliffe

33 A charismatic polymath

A generous bequest from Professor Toby Jackman has funded a Research Fellowship at St Edmund’s.

Professor Jackman, a Fellow Commoner of St Edmund’s, also made a more personal bequest — he left £3,000 to be added to the College’s endowment, the income of which should be used to provide whisky for the annual Burns Supper in College!

These bequests were in addition to donations from Professor Jackman during his life time to support an annual Jackman Prize for the St Edmund’s student with the highest mark or recommendation for their PhD studies, the Jackman Library Fund and the Jackman Book Fund. Reflecting his interest in art, porcelain and silver, Professor Jackman also gave a number of pieces of silver to the College.

Sydney Wayne Jackman, known universally to all as “Toby” after his childhood teddy bear, was born in Fullerton, California, on 5th March 1925. Both his parents died when he was young, and he was raised by his English grandparents in Canada. He studied Physics at the University of Washington in Seattle and then moved to Harvard. He completed his PhD there in 1953 (one of the first in Canadian Studies) on the career of Sir Francis

Bond, governor of Upper Canada during the Upper Canada rebellion of 1838. Toby Jackman returned permanently to Canada in 1963 as Professor of History in the newly established University of Victoria and retired in 1990. He was a Visiting Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge in the early 1960s. He received honorary degrees from the University of Victoria, and the University of Lethbridge, Alberta. During his career Professor Jackman published and edited numerous articles and books principally in the field of Canadian and European history.

His relationship with St Edmund’s dates from the early 1990s — he was originally a Visiting Fellow and was elected a Fellow Commoner in 1993 – 1994. He continued to come to the College annually from the start of Michaelmas Term until late into the Lent Term, before returning to Canada for the summer. He was a colourful and charismatic character, described as an “intellectual and social polymath”, who enlivened the College.

His last visit to St Edmund’s was in 2008, thereafter, though he could no longer travel to the College, he kept in close touch till shortly before he died in 2011.

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