The Year’s Highlights
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The Year’s Highlights
Three Trinity computer science students – Stella Lau (2014), Gábor Szarka (2014), and Dimitrije Erdeljan (2015) scored gold in a new cybersecurity competition designed to stretch their hacking abilities and capacity for teamwork – and address the UK’s looming skills gap in information technology.
The College received a very significant bequest from Mary, Duchess of Roxburghe, a valuable collection of more than 7,500 volumes to augment the riches of the Wren Library.
Professor Sir Timothy Gowers FRS (1982) has been awarded the Sylvester Medal by the Royal Society and the De Morgan Medal by the London Mathematical Society.
A study by Dr Sarah Parcak (2001) has revealed a huge monument buried under the sands at the Petra World Heritage site in southern Jordan.
Two Trinity students rowed to victory in the Cancer Research UK Boat Races. MPhil student Ali Abbasi (2010) was No. 2 in the Cambridge Men’s Blue Boat and medical student Imogen Grant (2010) was stroke in the women’s reserve crew, Blondie.