Issue 18 - Easter 2013

News from Hughes Easter Term 2013

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Newsletter for Hughes Hall members

Medicine at Hughes – From small beginnings …

The School of Clinical Medicine in Cambridge formally opened its doors in . Until then, all students reading Medicine here had to leave after their first three years to undertake their clinical studies elsewhere. Hughes Hall, as a graduate college, did not admit medical students, but from  was able to attract an occasional clinical student who came to Cambridge from preclinical studies elsewhere.

In  Dr John Hare, Quondam Fellow, became the first full Medical Fellow at Hughes Hall, later directing the Early Parenthood Project based at Hughes. This multidisciplinary project involved Medical Research Fellows Dr Juliet Draper and Dr Susan Field, medical sociology Research Fellows, Marion Kerr and Hilary Thomas, together with two midwives and a health visitor. John Hare was followed by Dr Bernard Reiss, Members of the Cambridge a local general practitioner who was the first Regional Graduate Course in Medicine Advisor in General Practice for East Anglia and first Society Committee: Director of GP studies in the new Clinical School.

Katy Horder, Tom Hughes, Between  and  Hughes had four medical Julie Witter, Rebecca Heslop, James McTaggart, Claire Palmer Presidents, culminating in the presidency of Peter Richards (–) who was instrumental in developing Hughes Hall as a major force in graduate entry medicine.

The Cambridge Graduate Course in Medicine (CGCM) was established in  as the result of a competitive bidding process for a new funded medical school. Part of the success of the bid depended on the ability to admit graduates with a first degree in any subject and the capacity to provide appropriate academic and pastoral support.

Hughes was in an ideal position to support this, so joined with Wolfson and Lucy Cavendish College to host the  or so students on the course. The medical Fellowship and Senior Membership has included clinicians (such as Ray Godwin and Jessica White) and biomedical scientists (such as Carole Sargent and Sara Melville) with specific responsibilities for the course, and many others who provide depth of medical expertise and academic excellence.

The first students were admitted in  and since then Hughes Hall has taken responsibility (with the other two colleges and the Clinical School) for the admission of students to the CGCM, and the responsibility for the progress of about a third on the four-year course. The first students qualified in  and have embarked on a variety of medical careers in general practice and hospital specialties.

Dr Paul Siklos, Director CGCM –, Associate Clinical Dean, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine

The Cambridge Graduate Course in Medicine Society The CGCM Society was established to bring together students from across all the years and colleges. It arranges social events and an annual Staff vs Students Rounders match, and the website provides helpful resources. The course is hugely rewarding but also demanding, so it’s helpful to meet those who have experienced the same challenges.

The inaugural CGCM Alumni Dinner took place on  January, generously hosted by Hughes Hall. Despite the snow, there was a fantastic turnout, and for those who braved the blizzards the candle-lit four course meal did not disappoint. The evening was a great success, bringing together current students, staff and alumni from all three colleges for the first time.

Students past and present exchanged experiences and caught up with former colleagues. We intend to build on the success of the dinner, making it a biennial event.

Julie Witter, second year CGCM student

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Cambridge Graduate Course in Medicine: reflections from a Hughes alumnus I will never forget my first day of the course on a bright September morning in . We introduced ourselves and I still remember feeling out of my depth, surrounded by people who had, variously, represented their country at sport, were trustees of charities, had helped in the clear up of the tsunami, were a successful actor or had served as a UN peace keeper.

During the induction we were told that by studying medicine and becoming doctors our lives would change, that we would think differently, change the way we communicated with others and that people would treat us differently.

I have many fond memories of my time in College. These include meeting Prince Philip, supervisions with Chummy Sinnatamby, then editor of Last’s Anatomy (not till I later worked in Australia where it is the surgeon’s chosen text did I realise how lucky we were), and bedside teaching

from Jessica White, which inspired me to supervise.

As with all things, Hughes would amount to little without the characters and shared experiences of college life. Thanks to the abundance of these Hughes Hall will remain a special place for me and many others. My fellow matriculates have begun specialising, each building careers in their chosen field, amongst them a neurologist, two paediatricians, an obstetrician and gynaecologist and two surgeons.

I do believe I think differently, communicate differently – how could one not with the experience that you are exposed to, when patients share the most personal things with you, when you have to console a new widow  years married, attend crash caesarean section deliveries in

Dr Robert Winter

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the middle of the night to help new lives into the world, assist with heart surgery and receive trauma patients on a helipad in Melbourne? Every change has been for the better, but as I have seen with my fellow alumni, each individual adds their unique flavour.

Dr James Gill, CGCM, 

Music

Dr Robert Winter, OBE MA MD FRCP, is a Fellow of Hughes and the first Director of the Academic Health Science System for Cambridge University Health Partners (CUHP). He joined CUHP from his post as Medical Director of NHS East of England and National Clinical Director for Respiratory Disease at the Department of Health. A respiratory physician by background, Dr Winter has held a number of positions, including Medical Director of Cambridge University Hospitals Foundation Trust –, Interim Chief Executive of Cambridge University Hospitals and Trustee and Vice President of the British Lung Foundation.

What has shaped your career and brought you to Hughes Hall?

It’s largely happenstance that led me to Cambridge. My career has been moulded and influenced by people – colleagues, patients and students – who motivated and inspired me. And I’d worked with a number of people from Hughes whom I’d liked and admired, particularly Ron Zimmern, Hilary Burton and Jessica White, and had attended various events.

I liked the atmosphere, informality, friendliness and feel of the place; and the variety of students from different areas – countries as well as disciplines – and of course the students from the CGCM, with their real life experiences

The CGCM Hughes Hall group of 2005 at a pre-finals dinner hosted by Carole Sargent.

and varied backgrounds. Also, I’ve always enjoyed teaching as well as research and becoming a member of College is a way of contributing.

What do you hope to achieve in your new role at CUHP? To help build an integrated approach to health care, linking primary care and the region’s major hospitals with the University. There’s a tripartite mission: high quality clinical care, research and education. We hope to contribute to the  vision of the Biomedical Campus becoming one of the leading biomedical enterprises in the world.

The College has enjoyed a number of excellent concerts in a variety of styles.

In January, the Stradivari Trust presented the Wu Quartet. Despite the snow, there was a full audience of over  students, Fellows and invited guests. The quartet beautifully played Haydn’s quartet Op.4 no. and Dvorak’s quartet Op., and their sense of fun was evident in the less serious moments of both pieces.

In February, the Corellis performed their distinctive mix of acoustic rock and blues in the Pavilion Room. Minus their drummer (stuck in the snow in Norfolk) but still with Vice President Neil Mercer on mandolin, they entertained an enthusiastic audience of over  Fellows and students.

Senior Member Ian de Massini continued his all-Bach programmes of music for solo violin and keyboards, and went on to perform the Goldberg Variations on both the piano and harpsichord. Later Martin Kemp and his band entertained with an evening of Latin swing.

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Scholarships at Hughes Hall (www.hughes.cam.ac.uk/how-to-apply/finance/scholarships-and-bursaries/) ‘Money makes the world go round’, or so Liza Minnelli famously sang in Cabaret. One may question this philosophically, but no one doubts that money is crucial for academic research. That’s why Hughes Hall devoted its th Anniversary Appeal to its Scholarship Fund – and is so grateful to the many generous contributors. While this Fund continues to grow, we are already drawing down interest to provide scholarships.

Since the launch of the new awards in , we have given six Scholarships and five Bursaries, eight for doctoral research and three for Masters courses. Current recipients work across the whole range of disciplines: Architecture, Chemistry, Economics, Education, Law, Mathematics and Sociology.

Hughes Hall awards have two distinctive features. One is that they are aimed at continuing rather than new students, to encourage them to stay here and build up our research community rather than migrate elsewhere. The other is that ‘contribution to college life’ is both a criterion of the award and an expectation of award-holders. Our current recipients have been active in the MCR Committee, organised Hat Club, given talks at Academic Evenings, contributed to university and college Law Societies, and more. So as well as receiving from the College and its donors, they are giving something back.

Hughes Hall has several other awards. The benefactor who provided an Elizabeth Cherry Bursary for years has now generously donated capital to fund this in perpetuity.

Our Hong Kong alumni and friends have just sponsored two new bursaries open to all students, to add to the full scholarships offered to Hong Kong graduates. We have awards in Education and Law, Former award holder Haider Butt, who was recently selected to again from donor sponsorship. present his continuing research And recently Santander Bank to parliament. has kindly offered the College three years funding for several smaller awards.

So the work of the Scholarships Committee has increased significantly in three years. But we’re delighted to have more money to go round, and the opportunity to make research (if not the world) go round!

Philip Johnston, Senior Tutor

Celebrating 15 years of public health genomics Hughes Hall Fellows Ron Zimmern and Hilary Burton are known internationally for founding the field of public health genomics in the UK, in . Under the banner of the PHG Foundation, a nonprofit health policy think tank which they lead, Ron and Hilary recently hosted a one day conference into the challenges of translating genomics into mainstream healthcare.

Hilary said “If it is possible to summarise the messages from the day it must be the response provided by one speaker to the question ‘Are we ready?’ In a nutshell, the answer it seems is ‘yes, but…’”.

Speakers from the fields of science, medicine and the humanities explored the unfolding success stories of clinical genetics, with Professor Dennis Lo (Chinese University of Hong Kong) delivering a fascinating talk on his breakthrough discovery of cell-free foetal DNA.

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Delegates and guests were treated to a celebratory dinner marking the PHG Foundation’s 15th anniversary, with keynote speakers Cambridge University’s Vice Chancellor, Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz and the Chief Medical Officer for England, Professor Dame Sally Davies, seen here (far right and second left) with Ron Zimmern and Hilary Burton.

Later, the spotlight turned to how next generation sequencing (NGS) technologies will make their presence felt in future healthcare. The DNA sequence data provided by NGS will enable new approaches that emphasise prevention ahead of cure. However, the sheer volume and complexity of genomic data present real challenges in getting new therapies into the clinic. Furthermore, as Dr Muin Khoury (Centers for Disease Control, US) noted, when you add the population perspective to the predictive, preventive, personalised and participatory approaches, things start to get really tricky.

Closing the conference, Hilary Burton, Director of the PHG Foundation, set out how the Foundation aims to develop its position as a major policy unit advocating for implementation of genomic science.

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The Hughes Hall Boat Club – much to celebrate HHBC from its beginnings

The Boat Club Dinner

The Hughes Hall Boat Club was established in  by a group of enthusiastic PGCE students, with boat and oars borrowed from Emmanuel. The Boat Club has flourished since those early days, as was evident at this year’s Boat Club Dinner.

The Annual Dinner of the Hughes Hall and Lucy Cavendish Boat Clubs was a great occasion. The Boat Club was already celebrating its new state of the art boat, generously donated

by President Sarah Squire in honour of Dr William Squire.

Then Dame Veronica Sutherland announced that she would be donating another, and the cheers resounded ever more loudly.

In – the Boat Club has three men’s crews and two women’s. The College was one of the very few to enter two boats for the Head of the River Race this year and was one of the most successful clubs in Lent Bumps: our M1 won Blades and moved up more places than any other boat on the river.

The Club survived for the first decade or so of its existence thanks to keen beginners, a generous dose of eccentric enthusiasm – essential to any rowing club – and the generosity and support of Emmanuel Boat Club, the latter providing equipment, facilities and opportunities for those who wished to row at a higher level. More recently, Hughes has become accustomed to significant success in its own right. Blades have been won on more occasions than they have been lost in the last twenty years, and the Pegasus Cup – given to the most successful college in May Bumps – has twice been awarded to the Boat Club, the only club to have achieved this.

In  the women’s First Eight flew to Galway for the Tribesman Head, qualified for Intermediate Coxed Fours at Henley Royal Regatta and sent two boats to Women’s Head of the River, the only Cambridge college to do so, with the First Eight finishing th out of . It was also the great strength of the women’s squad, combined with the meteoric rise of both men’s crews that allowed the Boat Club to win the Pegasus Cup in  and .

In recent years Hughes Hall has had a close association with CUBC rowing, providing a high number of Blues and three Presidents in recent years. All who have passed through the HHBC have remarkably similar tales to tell: of a small, friendly, competitive and ambitious team of athletes and beginners, where an amateur spirit of the best kind is fostered.

Matthew Parkinson, President of the Hughes Hall Boat Club

The new boat greatly boosted morale, and led to the men’s first team winning blades in the Lent Bumps, and propelling them into the second division. Boat Club President, Matthew Parkinson, lauded the Boat Club’s recent achievements and thanked the President, Mrs Sarah Squire, and Dame Veronica Sutherland for Dominic Silk receiving the their generous donations. Matthew new award for his inspiration also thanked Peter Jackson (, and constant support from BA Aff ) and the  Boat Crew for Peter Jackson of the 1987 their contribution to the Boat Club’s Lent Bumps crew goal of buying four new ERGs. Peter Jackson was delighted to present Dr Dominic Silk (, CGCM) with a new award, for his inspiration and constant support to the Boat Club over the years.

The whole evening was a lively and enjoyable event which brought together both alumni and students.

We were particularly thrilled to welcome Ian Bardrick (, PGCE) who was a member of the original  boat crew.

Next year we look forward to even more celebrations and Boat Club reunions!

We were delighted to have Ian Bardrick (right) from the 1979 May Bumps crew with us at this year’s dinner, together with Peter Jackson, who rowed in the first Hughes Lent Bumps crew of 1987.

Row, row, row your erg …

The 2007 Women’s and Men’s crews with the Pegasus Cup, and donors Professor Peter Richards and Dr Carol Seymour-Richards

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We would like to say a big thank you to the  crew, who are generously supporting the Boat Club. They have donated funds for two new rowing machines, helping to make training even more effective for our  committed rowers and numerous enthusiastic students. The  crew have also generously sponsored an annual award for the person who has contributed most to the Boat Club over the previous year, to be presented at the Boat Club Dinner each year. Dominic Silk was the worthy recipient of the inaugural award.

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Ian Bardrick (1978, PGCE Maths): memories of the 1978–1979 Boat crew

Hughes Hall’s First Lent Bumps Eight, 1987

The first ever boat crew at Hughes, 1978–1979

A remnant of Ian’s Hughes singlet.

The first outing for the men’s boat was in Michaelmas term. We borrowed both the boat and oars from Emmanuel – the oars in the photo have Emmanuel’s markings. At the start we crashed into the concrete bank and broke an oar. The cox had had no previous coxing experience in any kind of racing boat, let alone an eight! The coach offered to swap his bike for the cox’s seat, but the cox had never ridden a bike either. Some other way was found to get us back without further mishap. Subsequently Ms D L Payne took over as cox – I seem to remember her as Leslie.

In Lent term the PGCE members were on teaching practice so I didn’t row and I don’t know whether any of the other members did either. Stroke and bow were not on the PGCE course and were from Germany. For a time a third student from Germany was in the crew.

We used to row each morning before lectures, at around 7:00am. Bob Douch had begun T’ai Chi and warmed up using that, the rest of us just put on kit, took out the boat and blades and boated.

Our Cambridge Blue singlets, with a ribbon, were issued on the first day of the Bumps. In the races we were never bumped, which was good, but neither did we bump anyone.

As Hughes’ First Crew we used Emmanuel’s First Crew changing room and shower. Within a fairly short time we were asked to move to the other changing room which seemed to have a significantly less reliable supply of hot water. The women’s crew asked if they could use the showers at Emmanuel. That was not allowed!

A year or two after leaving Hughes I returned to buy one of the hoodies that the Boat Club had produced. The back had a large owl and the letters HHBC printed on it – a proud moment!

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The 1987 Lent Bumps crew: LE Nethery (in cap), SC Duff, SJ Powell, RJ Hanbury, QPV Fontana, PA Jackson, BJ Hart, GD Hine, S Loftus

Training during the Lent Term was restricted by some of the crew having teaching practice, often at a distance from Cambridge. Many of the outings were in the early morning in the dark with cycle lights fore and aft; it wasn’t easy, or even legal, to row in the dark but we had to train some time!

My other main memory of training that term was the cold and the wind.

The cold didn’t actually prevent us from going out – although chipping the icicles from the blades while putting them away afterwards is something that I will never forget – but the wind occasionally prevented our rowing. There were times when the swell on the river was so great that to go out would have been foolhardy; we couldn’t sit the boat level on a calm river, let alone on one in which we were being buffeted by wind and waves!

Occasionally we would be short of an oarsman or two; if it was one from each side then going out as a six wasn’t too bad but trying to row as a seven was a bit of a joke. Frequently it was that someone had failed to show up through oversleeping and we sometimes took the extra blade with us in case they turned up on the river bank (which they sometimes did). On one occasion it was my fault, when the alarm on my watch failed to wake me and, although I lived close to the river, nobody in the crew knew where it was so they couldn’t fetch me. My solution to this problem was twofold, a proper alarm clock, and my housemates and I threw a party to which the crew were invited, partly so that they would know where I lived! It worked.

Quentin Fontana, 1986, PhD Materials, with input from the rest of the 1987 Lent Bumps crew. (A longer version of these memories can be found on the Hughes Hall website.)

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News from Hughesians DR EDWARD LEWIS, 1996, BA English, has just been appointed to initiate the drama element of the new English degree at Soran University in Kurdistan. His most recent publication is a chapter on the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of Nicholas Nickleby in The Greatest Shows on Earth, edited by John Freeman and published

by Libri. It’s recommended to all who are interested in the theatre.

DR STEPHEN CAVE,1996, MPhil, PhD Philosophy, took part in the Cambridge Science Festival in March. Stephen’s first book, Immortality: The Quest to Live Forever and How it Drives Civilization, examines the powerful role that the pursuit of immortality has played in human history and whether it has any prospect of success. The New Scientist declared it a ‘must read’ and ‘one of the best books of 2012’, and it has already been translated into a number of languages.

DR ANIS HAQUE, 1993, Computer Science, has founded AASEE (Association for the Advancement of Science and Engineering Education), a nonprofit organisation for advancing science and engineering education among K-12 students in Canada.

AASEE designs curriculum-based, hands-on activities through collaborative research, to engage teachers, parents and students. They provide training and resources to pre-university educators and also create opportunities for the students to learn directly from experts and leaders. Girls, first nations peoples, rural communities and people in financial need are their top priorities. AASEE (www.aasee.ca) is currently operating in the province of Alberta in Canada, but hopes to work across the globe in the near future, particularly in developing countries. AASEE has reached more than one thousand students directly in the classroom since it had its first programme in 2011.

Aaron Huniu Photography www.aaronhuniuphotography.com

DR HAIDER BUTT, 2009, PhD Engineering, and former PDRA of Hughes Hall, was shortlisted from hundreds of applicants to present his research in the House of Commons on 18 March. Dr Butt’s work, entitled ‘High resolution holograms using nanotechnology’, was nominated in the engineering section of a national competition, SET for Britain. Haider, who is now Henslow Research Fellow at Wolfson College and a PDRA in Nanophotonics, spoke in front of politicians and judges in Parliament. The competition offers early career researchers working in scientific, engineering, technological or medical fields the opportunity to reach a larger audience comprised of MPs and expert judges. Haider said, ‘SET for Britain is a fantastic opportunity to highlight my research and engage with politicians regarding scientific research in this country’.

Congratulations to CHRISTINA BRITTAIN, 2010, LLM, and BESIM HATINOGLU, 2009, Law Diploma, on their recent marriage.

Besim sent us this message: ‘I would like to share some good news: I don’t know how often this happens at the College but Christina and I have just got married in San Diego. It was a small yet a lovely celebration at Christina’s mother’s house. We will have two more wedding celebrations, one in Turkey and another in South Korea (the 8 and the 14 of June, respectively). It has already been a truly global marriage!’

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Who wants to live forever?

This is the question that Hughes alumnus Dr Stephen Cave debated at the Cambridge Science Festival event ‘The Science and Science Fiction of Immortality’ in March.

Progress in science and technology in the past two centuries has doubled human life expectancy in the developed world from around 40 years to the 80 years we can expect today. To a full house, the anti-ageing researcher Dr Aubrey de Grey argued that new breakthroughs will soon allow us to double it again. Making the case for radical life extension, he claimed that regenerative medicine would allow us not only to stop but to reverse the effects of ageing.

A benefit in itself, he argued, this would also reduce the incidence of age-related diseases such as cancer and Alzheimer’s.

However, the next speaker, Cambridge Biochemistry Professor Guy Brown, cast doubt on the optimistic assumptions behind de Grey’s claims. Then Stephen Cave sketched the bigger picture: the real ‘science of immortality’, he argued, is the evidence from social psychology that shows we are compelled by our fear of death to tell ourselves stories about living forever. These stories can take the form of religion or the pursuit of fame – or science fiction tales about how we will soon reverse ageing. We should be sceptical of supposed elixirs of life, Cave said, and not let them distract us from the fact that our time is limited, as awareness of this helps us to realise how precious each day is.

The Ohtake Collection

The President, Mrs Sarah Squire, presenting Professor Ohtake, Honorary Fellow of the College, with a key to the strongroom in the new Library to mark the completion of the unpacking and installation of his valuable collection.

Professor Masa Ohtake has donated his entire lifetime collection of fine print books to Hughes Hall. It consists primarily of very beautiful fine print books from twentieth century private presses, and items relating to the former Poet Laureate Ted Hughes, and to the First World War poets, particularly Edward Thomas.

Now catalogued by Dr Sarah Preston, and accessible through the internet, the collection is already attracting scholarly interest.

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May Ball 2013 – A Red Carpet Affair Hughes Hall May Ball is an exciting annual event. Guests will be treated to 12 hours of non-stop entertainment, from music to fine food. The theme for this year’s ball promises a spectacular evening where guests can expect first class treatment. The grounds of the College will be transformed, with several stages for live music, a luxury marquee for dining, exciting fairground rides and food stands and a Hollywood-style casino indoors. This year, we are supporting Schistosomiasis Control Initiative and Jimmy’s Night Shelter; guests will be asked to donate an extra £2 per ticket to help these good causes. Tickets are now on sale! www.srcf.ucam.org/hhmayball/

London Drinks – February 2012 Our regular London Drinks are rapidly becoming a staple of our alumni events calendar.

The informal setting of the Crusting Pipe in Covent Garden has been the perfect venue.

This February more than 20 alumni gathered together to reminisce and reconnect.

If you are interested in joining us at our next London Alumni Drinks please contact alumni@hughes.cam.ac.uk or check the website for more information: www.hughes.cam.ac.uk/alumni/alumni-events/

The Charnley Law Dinner 2013 The annual Law Dinner was held in February, kindly sponsored by Mr William Charnley, Fellow of Hughes Hall and Partner at King & Spalding. We were very pleased to welcome as speaker The Hon Mrs Justice Gloster, DBE, the first appointed female judge of the Commercial Court in the United Kingdom. As always, we were joined by many Law professionals and academics, and the evening was an excellent networking opportunity.

Events Diary JOHN HOPKINS DINNER 7:00pm, 13 June, 2013 Dinner in honour of Mr John Hopkins. All BA Law alumni taught by John Hopkins at Hughes Hall are welcome to attend.

MAY BALL Saturday, 15 June, 2013 This year’s theme is A Red Carpet Affair. All alumni are welcome to attend, but be quick – tickets are now on sale and selling fast!

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City Lecture 2013 Hughes Hall welcomed alumni, students and guests at the fourteenth annual City Lecture on Friday, 26 April to hear Sir Martin Sorrell talk on ‘The leaders of tomorrow: what they’ll need to remember. And what they’ll need to forget’. Sir Martin is the Chief Executive of WPP, the world’s largest advertising and marketing services group, and so is ideally placed to speak on the future of business in a changing world. After the session, the audience joined Sir Martin, the President and members of the College for dinner. More details of Sir Martin’s talk can be found on the website: www.hughes.cam.ac.uk

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The speaker will be Dr Matthew Baxter, Head of Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys, Canterbury, Kent

ALUMNI WEEKEND 27–29 September, 2013

The College is very pleased to host this annual lecture. The topic of this year’s lecture, given on the 29 April by Professor Robert Bartlett of St Andrews University, was Gerald of Wales. Professor Bartlett is a well respected expert in the field of early medieval studies, and recently presented an excellent three part series for BBC Two, ‘The Normans’.

Join us for a talk and black-tie dinner at College on Friday, 27 September. Professor Jim Kaufman will speak on ‘Extinction by a Contagious Cancer: a devil of a problem’.

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The President of Hughes Hall, Mrs Sarah Squire, made her annual trip to the United States in April, visiting New York and Washington DC. Mrs Squire was joined in New York by Hughes Hall Fellow Dr Mark Turin. They attended an alumni event organised by Hughesians Widge Devaney (1994, LLM) and Sonali Pathirana (1998, MPhil).

Dr Turin, who is currently based at Yale, gave a talk about language endangerment and cultural diversity entitled ‘Collect, Protect, Connect: Documenting Voices of Vanishing Worlds’. He recently presented a three part series for BBC Radio 4, Our Language in Your Hands. Dr Turin travelled to the mountains of Eastern Nepal to show how communities are preserving and reviving their speech forms. He explored the enduring relationship between language, culture and identity and explained why it’s so critical for linguists to work with indigenous communities to document and protect these vanishing voices before they disappear without record.

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November, 2013 Open to all Science /Medical alumni.

HAT CLUB The Hat Club hosts regular talks during term-time given by students and Fellows of the College as well as high profile speakers.

THE CHARNLEY LAW DINNER 2014 Save the date – Friday, 7 February, 2014.

All Hughes lawyers welcome.

LONDON ALUMNI DRINKS Our London Alumni Drinks are held termly and are an opportunity for alumni to join us for an informal evening of drinks and networking in London. Open to all alumni.

If you are interested in attending any of these events please contact events@hughes.cam.ac.uk.

Further details can be found on the website.

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• Sport • Sport • Sport • Sport • Sport • Sport • Sport • Sport • Sport • Sport • Sport • Varsity Rugby Match – Lambert the Lion

The Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race

John Walker says: ‘Whilst Hughes were well represented on the pitch we were also represented off it in the form of Lambert the Lion, so called after the first CURUFC Captain. I was the fortunate person parading up and down the touchline in the outfit, imitating some of the best dance moves of the seventies’. Sadly, despite a strong first half, Lambert wasn’t able to help the Light Blues to victory, and they lost 26–19 to Oxford.

All six Boat Races – the Lightweights, the Women, Goldie/Isis and the Boat Race proper – went to the Other Place. So it was not a successful campaign for Cambridge. The one chink of light came from the ‘spare pair’, where Hughes’s Florian Herbst and his colleague trounced their opposition in the most pleasing fashion. In the main race the Blue Boat fought hard the whole way against one of the finest Dark Blue crews for many a year; they were not disgraced to lose by a length and a half. Commiserations to both Niles Garratt and Ty Otto, the Hughes men in the boat. Likewise to Jack Lindeman, the Captain of Goldie, who, in a thrilling race, was just unable to lead his men to victory.

Dr Mike Franklin, Praelector

Basketball Cambridge Men’s Basketball Team won a convincing victory over Oxford in the Basketball Varsity Match. Two Hughes Hall students played for the winning team; Garrett Koehler, 2012, MPhil, and the Captain, Job Godino, 2009, PhD. After being defeated last year Cambridge were determined to win. The Light Blues started the game well with an aggressive onslaught in the fourth quarter, leading to two Oxford players fouling out.

Cambridge finished the game in front of a cheering home crowd, winning 93–68 – the first time Cambridge had won since 2005. Captain Job Godino remarked ‘Every one of our players contributed something to this win, which makes it so, so sweet’.

The Varsity team, plus Lambert (who gets about!)

Matthew Parkinson, Cheesemonger, Chef, President of Hughes Hall Boat Club…

Matthew took an interesting journey to Hughes to read English as an undergraduate. Straight after school he started reading Philosophy and Italian at the University of Edinburgh. He soon realised that he wanted to read English but it was too late to change, so he left and took a number of different jobs, including managing a cheese shop, later becoming sous chef in an acclaimed restaurant on the west coast of Scotland. Matthew decided he wanted to apply to Oxford or Cambridge so, while working full time, he started studying for A levels.

Matthew (in headband) with the winning M1 crew.

What made you choose Cambridge and Hughes Hall?

also has a good understanding of what it’s like to be a mature student.

I wanted Oxbridge because of the quality of the teaching and the ethos of a ‘life of ideas’. I chose Cambridge because I preferred the look of the course, and Hughes because I wanted a mature students college – Hughes was very helpful and friendly, and at the interview the discussion was exactly what I hoped supervisions would be.

And of course, the rowing! I’d always watched the Boat Race, but had never rowed although I enjoy competition and used to cycle. The HH Boat Club is small and supportive. Rowing depends on a small group, a bit akin to a professional kitchen, you go through a lot together in a race. I’ve made great friends, and it’s great to be part of the club at a time when it’s growing fast and achieving so much.

Looking back over the past three years, what have you most enjoyed?

The level of discussion, the passion for literature and words; how good the teachers are and how much they care about the students. Charles Moseley at Hughes and Fred Parker from Clare have made an enormous impact on students. I feel very privileged to be taught by them. Charles

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What are your plans after you graduate?

I love education and would like to stay in it, but I’ll take a year out to teach English, improve my Italian and do some writing. I’d love to return to Hughes but will need to get funding, so we’ll see!

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Fellows News Congratulations to Dr John Durrell of the Department of Engineering who won the 2012 Institute of Physics (IOP) Superconductivity Group Prize. The Committee awarded the prize to Dr Durrell after considering a range of strong contenders. The Prize is awarded to a scientist working in the UK who has made a significant contribution in the field of superconductivity in the last few years – with particular emphasis given to recent work. The prize consists of £250, a plaque and an invitation to give a prize lecture at an IOP Superconductivity Group Meeting.

Professor Neil Mercer, Fellow and pro-Vice President, has been invited by the Singapore National Institute of Education to give a keynote address to the Fifth Redesigning Pedagogy International Conference, to be held from 3–5 June, 2013. The theme of the conference is Thinking: Time for a Rethink?. He will be describing his research on enabling children to develop their use of talk for reasoning and thinking collectively.

Professor Nicholas O’Shaughnessy, Quondam Fellow and Professor of Communication at Queen Mary University of London, is publishing a series of works that seek to elevate the study of persuasion and communication in history and politics, explored both via traditional notions of propaganda, and more recent methods derived from the commercial sphere and applied to politics. His four volume series of jointly-edited readings, Propaganda, was published in 2012 by the Sage Library in Military and Strategic Studies.

A further co-authored work, Theory and Concepts in Political Marketing, is published in May also by Sage. Selling Hitler: Propaganda and the Nazi Brand, an analysis of the ultimate evolution and destructiveness of propaganda as a political instrument, will be published in 2014

by Christopher Hurst.

Connecting the People of Cambridge: Professor Ged Martin Professor Ged Martin, Honorary Fellow, visited Cambridge from his home in Ireland to give an entertaining lecture about writing his book Hughes Hall, Cambridge 1885–2010. The event was hosted by the Cambridgeshire Association for Local History and was held in the Pavilion Room at Hughes Hall. Many local historians came to hear the talk; they were later treated to a tour around College by Professor Martin and the President, Mrs Sarah Squire.

Dan Saxon, Senior Associate Dan Saxon is currently Visiting Professor at Leiden University College, where he teaches Global Justice, and Senior Associate for International Law at Hughes Hall. He recently presented a thought provoking three part series on International Humanitarian Law and the changing technology of war for the Hat Club, the College’s society for talks and debate.

For nearly 25 years, Dan Saxon has investigated and prosecuted serious international crimes and trained students and practitioners in the theory and practice of international criminal law and international humanitarian law. He has trained judges, prosecutors and investigators from Colombia, Guatemala, the UK and the Former Yugoslavia and has lectured at numerous institutions in Europe and North America.

What motivated you to go into the field of international and humanitarian law?

I believe it’s important to help give a voice to people who don’t have one. I’ve had the good fortune to be in professional situations where I could help people who would normally be

excluded from public affairs, and of redressing the wrongs done to them.

I enjoy being an advocate and having a voice – which could be seen as a selfish motivation, but as a courtroom lawyer my voice counts so I can use this to the advantage of others. It’s a privilege to represent people who have suffered terribly in wars and horrific situations, and I’ve been very fortunate in being able to do this together with good colleagues.

Now I mostly teach, and train judges and prosecutors – from England, Bosnia, Guatemala and Colombia – because I believe that the most important work now has to be done nationally rather than internationally.

Have you collected your MA yet?

Don’t forget these alumni benefits

If you studied for a BA and it has been six years since the end of your first term of residence (five years for BA Affiliates), we would be delighted to invite you back to College to receive your MA on the 20 July. For more details about graduation and information on how to apply please visit our website: www.hughes.cam.ac.uk/current-students/graduation/

Invitations to College events; booking in for Formal Hall and College guest rooms; booking weddings at Emmanuel College Chapel; joining the Oxford and Cambridge Club.

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Elections and awards Elections Honorary Fellow Mr John Hopkins Fellows Dr Corinne Roughley Dr Robert Winter Dr Megan Crawford Dr Francesco Bonaccorso City Fellow Mr Marc Mogull Research Fellows Dr Matteo Bruna Dr Normann Goodwin Dr Aisling Redmond Dr Marco Sacchi Dr Robyn Veal Post-Doctoral Research Associates Dr David Bosworth Dr Kelly Diederen Mr Emadaldin Moeendarbary Dr Tomas Undurraga Quondam Fellows Professor Blamire Mr Mark Phippen Mr Jonathan Taylor Senior Member Ms Alexia Solomou Senior Associate Mr Oliver Urquhart Irvine

Student Awards E M BURNETT PRIZES, 2011–2012 BA First Class William Asquith, Law Evis Charalambous, Mathematics Stefano Gogioso, Mathematics Imran Jumabhoy, Land Economy John Torr, Linguistics LLM First Class Shalina Daveed Chung Yan Ernest Ng Louise Heenan Joshua Scheinert Lucy James Faculty Prizes Yingwen Tao, Archaeology, for MPhil dissertation John Torr, Linguistics, Sidney Allen Prize SANTANDER AWARDS 2012–2013 Jack Lindeman, BA Affiliate Alexis Papazoglou, PhD Jon Johnson, PhD Moritz Sowada, PhD Alex Anderson, PhD Will Wakeford, CGCM

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Chancellor of the University visits Hughes Hall The new Chancellor of the University paid his first visit to Hughes Hall on Tuesday, 5 February. Lord Sainsbury of Turville met the president of the MCR and other students and then went on to meet the Vice Presidents and a group of Fellows. He also toured the College with the President, stopping to admire the new Library. Along with his role as Chancellor, Lord Sainsbury is also the ‘Visitor’ of Hughes Hall, which gives him a special interest in the welfare and progress of the College.

The Chancellor with the President and Lady Ogden of the Ogden Trust, which is based at Hughes Hall.

Staff news Development Director Jonathan Taylor was very sad to say goodbye to the College following his decision to move closer to his family in the West Country. He asked us to pass on his very best wishes for the future of the College and to say how much he enjoyed interacting with alumni and getting to know a number of you during his time here. The recruitment process for Jon’s successor is well underway, and we look forward to welcoming them in the next issue.

The College has appointed a new Development Officer (Deputy Development Director Designate) following the departure of Jo McPhee.

Christopher Hallebro has joined us from Girton College, Cambridge, where he worked as the College’s Annual Fund Officer. He will oversee the day to day activities of the Development Office, run the telephone campaign, and help us raise awareness and funding for our key projects. Christopher has been working in Higher Education since graduating from St Peter’s College, Oxford, where he read Modern History and English Literature in 2004. We are sure you will join us in extending him a warm welcome, and we hope many of you will have the chance to meet our team in person at one of our many events in College and elsewhere.

We would like to welcome Rachel Knight to the Development Office. She joins us in the role of Development Officer (Events and Communications).

Rachel previously worked at Graduate Promotions after completing her studies at the universities of Edinburgh and Durham. She will take over organising our extensive range of talks, dinners, reunions and societies from Annica Curtis, who left after eighteen months to take up the post of Alumni and Development Officer at Clare Hall. We would like to thank Annica for her excellent work at the College and wish her well in her new job. She asked us to pass on how much she enjoyed her time at Hughes, and said it was a real pleasure getting to know the alumni and students of the College.

Student news Congratulations to Job Godino, 2009, PhD Epidemiology. His 2011–2012 Butterfield Studentship was renewed for 2012–2013 for his dissertation research examining the effect of communicating genetic risk information for type 2 diabetes on risk-reducing behaviours.

He said: ‘As you can imagine, I was very pleased, and the monetary portion of the award (roughly £750) was very helpful’.

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Accommodation at Hughes Hall 1992–2013 Between  and  the student accommodation at Hughes comprised  single bedrooms in the Main Building, and  in Wollaston Lodges One and Two. The period between  to the present day has seen an explosion in the number of student bedrooms.

A student room in Fenner’s and a kitchen in the newly refurbished Wollaston Lodge

 During the Presidency of Desmond Hawkins, the four blocks of Chancellor’s Court were built. This provided the College with an additional  single bedrooms (in two-bedroom flats), arranged around the former gardens of Wollaston Lodge. Each flat contained a bathroom and small kitchen. For the first time the College also provided three self-contained flats for married students.  The Centenary Building was built to commemorate the centenary of the original Wollaston Road premises. The building contains  en-suite bedrooms (the first such bedrooms in the College’s history).  The Fenner’s Building came into being following a vigorous campaign by President Peter Richards. The very modern, faceted, design of the building provides some of the best accommodation (and one of the best views) of any college in the University. There is en-suite accommodation for  single students and luxurious flats for four married students. All this overlooks Fenner’s Cricket Ground – consequently, as well as the view we sometimes get broken windows. In fact, on the official opening day, an errant cricket ball hit one of the upper-floor windows!

Hughes Needs You We are lucky to have an exceptional body of alumni, spread across a whole range of different countries and professions. This is in part made possible by the generous system of scholarships and bursaries available to talented applicants, supporting learning and growth for our students. Thank you to all who have supported this valuable area in the past: without you, we could not be such a diverse, supportive and egalitarian institution. We need to maintain this level of support, and help it to grow so that we can help more students achieve their dreams of studying at Cambridge. To do that, we need you to help us fund continuing scholarships for our students.

 All the bedrooms in the Margaret Wileman Building were completely redecorated to bring them into the st Century. Some of the outgoing furniture had been surplus Ministry of Defence stock circa ! At the same time, the bathrooms, showers, toilets and kitchens were refurbished and dining rooms were created.  Both Wollaston Lodges were completely refurbished. En-suite facilities were provided for about half the bedrooms. The newly refurbished rooms are now possibly the most sought after in the College.

In addition, the College has  houses, recently refurbished, within the local vicinity, accommodating  students, with four to seven in each. The total number of student bedrooms is now  single bedrooms and six flats for married students on the main College campus, and  single bedrooms in houses off campus.

Future Plans Planning permission has been granted to construct a further  rooms on the Chancellor’s Court site and the College is negotiating to acquire a site for the construction of a further + rooms close to College. Further details will be available in the next issue of News from Hughes.

Neil Taylor, Bursar

Claire Enderby from the Alumni and Development Office with Konstantin Ivanov, one of the student volunteers.

Visit our alumni memory web page: www.hughes.cam.ac.uk/alumni/alumni-memories/

In July we shall be holding our Telephone Campaign 2013, when a team of twelve student callers will be contacting our worldwide alumni to update them on news from the College, talk about their experiences and ask for support for Scholarships and our other valuable causes. If you are interested in hearing more about the College today from the most immediate source – our enthusiastic students – we shall be happy to talk and to listen.

Thank you for sending in your old photographs and memories. We always enjoy reading about your time at College and seeing photos. If you have any photographs you would like to share with us then please email them to alumni@hughes.cam.ac.uk or send them in to The Development Office, Hughes Hall, Cambridge, cb1 2ew.

You will be able to find out more about our calling team on our website. We all look forward to speaking with you and updating you on the dynamic and exciting community that is Hughes Hall.

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Past MCR Presidents reminisce…

Jeff Ziegler, 1993, MPhil and DPhil International Relations Jeff Ziegler was at Hughes Hall between 1993 and 1995.

He is married to another Hughesian, Jeff, Suzanne and their children.

Suzanne Brandom, 1992, MPhil Criminology. He currently works for a Girls Leadership Institute, a US national non-profit organisation, as their Sales, Marketing and Outreach Manager for California.

I was elected MCR President to serve through my second year at Hughes, 1994–95. The time I spent as an active member of College, and as an MPhil and DPhil student at the University, was among the best of my life. It helped me

to create some of the strongest social and emotional bonds I have (including the most important one, the relationship with my wife!).

My first recollection as a student in Cambridge and of Hughes Hall was arriving in a rental car at the front of the College around two weeks prior to the start of the 1993 academic year.

I had nowhere to live, yet. I walked straight into Pat Stone’s office (she was College Secretary), introduced myself and asked her where she thought I could live. We set about finding somewhere; and with the College President, John Dingle, also helping me in the hunt, I ended up lodging with a College Fellow until a place opened in Chancellor’s Court.

My next recollection was walking into the Hughes Bar a few weeks later, where I was accosted by a young woman shouting out to

me – only for her to realise I wasn’t the person she had thought I was. I was a doppelganger for someone who had been at Hughes the year before, and as she pointed him out in the previous year’s College photo, I said “I look nothing like that guy,” ... and the infamous first exchange with my future wife ended.

Not long after settling into the rich offerings of College life, I spent as much of my time as possible meeting as many of my fellow students as I could. I enjoyed Formal Halls – every Tuesday and Thursday – where we were offered a chance to mingle and learn more about each other ... and what made our ‘little’ College so very special (aside from the sherry, wine and port). With around 350 students, it really only took a month or so before I thought I knew pretty much everyone in College!

Sophie Thomashausen, 2001, BA Law

and local foliage were put to good use.

Sophie recently left London to join her husband in New York. After nearly seven years at Allen & Overy LLP in London and Sao Paulo, Sophie is currently working as a Law Fellow at the Public International Law and Policy Group, a non-profit organisation that provides free legal advice to states emerging from conflict.

She studied law as an Affiliate student from 2001–2003 after having completed a degree in Public Policy and International Affairs at Princeton University.

Early morning rowing practice in dreadfully grey English weather on the overcrowded river Cam also brings back colourful memories.

As does the frantic cycle to law lectures on the other side of Cambridge afterwards.

When I think back to my time at Hughes Hall, so many fond memories flood back, especially of my year as MCR President. First, there was the successful pre-orientation the MCR Committee pioneered in 2002–2003. As an international

student myself, I was well aware of the occasionally daunting challenges of settling into a new environment, particularly in a foreign country. I was therefore honoured to oversee a more structured welcome for incoming Hughes students in my second year, which I hope is still in place today.

Then there were the famous Hughes Hall Bops. While I find it hard not to associate Cambridge with an oversupply of bad 80s music, Hughes Bops stood out for their more varied music, creative themes and high attendance rates in the old dark green club room. One of the more memorable Bops I recall was a Toga party, for which College sheets

Calling all alumni!

If you and a group of your friends would like to arrange a year group reunion, please get in touch with the Alumni and Development Office on alumni@hughes.cam.ac.uk. The College has grown in size, new buildings have been built and more subjects are now being studied – but the ethos at the core of Hughes remains the same. We hope you will come along and see for yourselves. If you’d like to suggest your year group, we would be happy to hear from you!

My fondest memories of Hughes are definitely of the people. I am grateful for the fantastic MCR Committee and College staff who made my year as MCR President so rewarding.

A special mention also goes to my fantastic hallway members in my second year. From dancing to Enrique Iglesias’ Escape while drying laundry, to the pasta evenings, and the general drama of communal living and cleaning up. Thank you to everyone who made my time at Hughes so colourful and rewarding!

Going Green – News from Hughes goes digital As part of our commitment to reducing our print material and to make communication faster and more environmentally friendly, News from Hughes will be produced electronically later this year. If you live outside the UK and have given us an email address, you will now receive News from Hughes by email instead of by post. But if you would prefer to receive hard copies, please email us on alumni@hughes.cam.ac.uk

News from Hughes: Editor Annemarie Young (annemarie.young@ntlworld.com) Design by Andy Wilson (andy@andywilson.biz) Contact us with your news, by post at: Hughes Hall, Cambridge CB1 2EW; or by email at development@hughes.cam.ac.uk Photos courtesy of Aaron Huniu and contributors Printed in England

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