THE COLLEGE
The College continued to nurture interesting conversations in 2018-2019. Professor ROSSA CHIU helped us kick off the year with a Formal Hall Dinner talk during which she explained how her team’s ground breaking research on non-invasive prenatal testing was confronted by a critical patent dispute. Later in the term, SUKI KIM, author of Without You, There Is No Us: My secret life teaching the sons of North Korea’s elite, was the star of the College’s inaugural “One Book Programme”. The only writer to have lived undercover in North Korea for immersive journalism, Kim spoke of the difficulties of uncovering the truth on North Korea, which she described as a “cultural Galapagos”.
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書院簡介
One of Professor CHRISTOPHER GANE’s final duties as Acting Master was to preside over a graduation celebration for the Class of 2018 in November. Weeks later, the college community welcomed Professor SIR MICHAEL MARMOT, director of the University College London Institute for Health Equity to the final Formal Hall dinner of the term. Sir Michael gave a talk entitled “The Health Gap: the challenge of an unequal world”. In the new year, Morningside welcomed its incoming Master, Professor NICK RAWLINS and his partner, The Honorable LALLA WARD, to campus. They quickly jumped into life at the College, hosting the Vice-Chancellor for conversations with fellows and students, attending weekly communal dinners, officiating at college ceremonies, and holding a variety of activities in the Master’s Lodge.
