Bob Whitaker has seen the publication this year of the 5th edition of Instant Anatomy, which is now in its 22nd year. It has a popular reputation as a quick reference book for medical students. He continues to enjoy supervising in Anatomy despite being a retired member of the Fellowship.
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David Smith gave the address in 2015 at the annual commemoration of Oliver Cromwell which takes place at the statue of Cromwell outside the Palace of Westminster. It was entitled ‘The monarchical republic of Oliver Cromwell’. He also lectured on Oliver Cromwell to Cambridge alumni in New York and Washington DC. He has lectured to newly-qualified teachers for the Prince’s Teaching Institute at Grey Coat Hospital School, and to branches of the Historical Association in Welwyn Garden City and Hatfield; together with lectures to sixth-formers at Uppingham, St Paul’s, The Oratory School, Merchant Taylors’ Northwood, Westcliff High School, Eastbourne College, and the Perse School. Among a number of publications this year he lists ‘Politics and political culture during the English Revolution: a review-essay’, Milton Quarterly, 2015. Colin Humphreys reports another busy year. He has been appointed: a Director of 2D Technologies Ltd, a spin-out company set up to try to make graphene useful; a member of the John Templeton Foundation, the Templeton World Charity Foundation, and the Templeton Religion Trust; a member of the Advisory Board of the journal Science and Technology of Advanced Materials; an Editorial member of Advanced Material Science; and the President of Christians in Science. He has acted as Principal Investigator with research funds of nearly £4 million for work on LEDs and electronic devices made from gallium nitride. He has lectured in Manchester, Finland, Beijing, Portugal, Boston, and to the Cambridge Philosophical Society. He has twice been taken by the Science Minister to Downing Street for round table talks with the Prime Minister. Peter Fox is preparing an edition of the correspondence of Frederick Hervey, Bishop of Derry and 4th Earl of Bristol (1730-1803). Known as the ‘Earl-Bishop’, Hervey was a flamboyant character who spent more time travelling on the Continent than in his diocese. He expended part of his large fortune on redeveloping the family estate at Ickworth in Suffolk and building two grand houses in the north of Ireland. His correspondents included his daughter Elizabeth, Duchess of Devonshire, Lord Liverpool, Emma Hamilton and her husband, Sir William. Importantly, Peter Fox will be one of the Editors of the College Calendar from 2017. Jack Button was awarded the 2015 Kalman prize for the best paper appearing (appropriately for Selwyn) in the New Zealand Journal of Mathematics. Meanwhile he is kept busy at home by his two-year old son, and in College by serving as Dean (again) for the Easter Term to cover Dr O’Sullivan’s sabbatical leave. Phil Connell has published with OUP Secular Chains: Poetry and the Politics of Religion from Milton to Pope, and has now happily returned to the Romantic period. Nikos Nikiforakis has been promoted to a University Readership.
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Selwyn Calendar 2015–2016