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‘It was an incredibly strange feeling seeing the familiar set, with our names on’
Trinity’s 2019 University Challenge team takes up the cudgels from Monday 9 September. Team captain is Maths student, Joseph Webber. He is joined on the set by Lillian Crawford, who is returning to Trinity for an MPhil in Film and Screen Studies this autumn, Liam Hughes, who will begin a PhD in Maths in October, and Nadia Hourihan, who graduated with a degree in English this summer. The team describes what it’s like to take part in one of the UK’s most popular television quiz shows.
‘I would definitely recommend the Trinity residential’
After Farzana Haque attended a Trinity residential she was determined to apply to Cambridge. 'I’m absolutely over the moon to be going to Trinity College in October! It just feels so surreal!' she said.
‘A nice Jim Watson’: Venki Ramakrishnan on how ‘The Double Helix’ inspired him
Nobel Laureate Venki Ramakrishnan is President of the Royal Society, a Fellow of Trinity, a Group Leader at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge - and a successful author. His first book, Gene Machine - about the race to decipher the structure of the ribsosome - received rave reviews. Here Dr Ramakrishnan talks about his inspiration for writing a popular science book, his aims as Royal Society President, and still feeling like an outsider.
Pioneering physics’ educator wins award
Soon after Lisa Wright arrived at Trinity in 1994 she realised that studying physics at university needed a completely different approach to learning the subject at school.
‘My visit definitely assured me that I would feel comfortable, and welcome, at the University’
Students on the Target Oxbridge programme will visit Cambridge on Tuesday to get a taste of College life, meet students and Fellows, and find out more about studying here.