Sidney celebrates Eid Al-Fitr 18 May 2022 Earlier this month Sidney held its first Eid Formal Hall to celebrate Eid Al-Fitr, an Islamic religious festival that marks the end of the fasting month of Ramadan. Sidney Medicine student Shathar Mahmood is here to fill us in about the event and what it meant to her.
Super Sunday match report 12 May 2022 On Sunday 8 May, a team of Sidney staff members, led by Deputy Head Porter Maurice Flack, took on a side of Sidney’s finest footballers, captained by Sidney finalist Ben Speakman. Ben is here to fill us in on how the day played out.
Sidney Fellow’s new book an “instant classic” 9 May 2022 Professor Gary Gerstle’s latest book, The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order, has been lauded as a groundbreaking work offering a sweeping account of how neoliberalism came to dominate American politics for nearly a half century.
Mental Health Awareness Week 29 April 2022 Dr Lucy Cheke, Sidney Fellow and a researcher in the University of Cambridge’s Department of Psychology, will be running an event during Mental Health Awareness Week (9-15 May 2022).
PhD student’s work published in Nature 26 April 2022 Vaithish Velazhahan is a Sidney Gates Scholar and PhD student in the Tate group at the MCR Laboratory of Molecular Biology (MRC LMB), and his most recent work has been published in the journal Nature.
Sidney Fellow awarded ERC Advanced Grant 26 April 2022 The European Research Council (ERC) has named Professor Rodolphe Sepulchre as a recipient of its Advanced Grant for the project SpikyControl.
Gates Cambridge Class of 2022 announced 25 April 2022 79 new Gates Cambridge Scholars have been selected for 2022, and Deusdedit (Deus) Kansiime will be joining the Sidney community as the College’s newest Gates Scholar.
Anglo-Saxon kings were mostly vegetarian but peasants treated them to huge barbecues, new study argues 25 April 2022 Sidney Fellow Dr Tom Lambert has co-authored a study that suggests very few people in England ate large amounts of meat before the Vikings settled, and there is no evidence that elites ate more meat than other people. Its sister study also argues that peasants occasionally hosted lavish meat feasts for their rulers. The findings overturn major assumptions about early medieval English history.
Sidney students raising money for Ukraine Crisis Appeal 22 April 2022 Alessandro, a third-year Sidney chemist, and a group of Sidney friends have come up with an inventive idea involving a rowing machine and a chess board to raise money for the Ukraine Crisis Appeal.
Remembering Donald Green, 1928-2022 8 April 2022 Sidney Sussex College is greatly saddened by the death of long-term Sidney Fellow Donald Green, a beloved member of the community who made a great impact to many Sidney lives. He died after a short illness on 4 April.
Long COVID and cognitive impairment 7 April 2022 Dr Lucy Cheke, Sidney Fellow and a researcher in the University of Cambridge’s Department of Psychology, is the senior author of the paper that suggests society will face a ‘long tail’ of workforce illness due to long COVID.
A tribute to Sidney alumnus and filmmaker Mantas Kvedaravičius 6 April 2022 The College is deeply saddened by the tragic death of Mantas Kvedaravičius who was killed in Ukraine while reportedly filming the escalating violence in the besieged city of Mariupol.
Honorary Fellow among prestigious Windham-Campbell prize winners 1 April 2022 Sidney Honorary Fellow and Zimbabwean novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga is a recipient of a £120,000 grant, as the award marks its 10th anniversary.
Sidney postgraduate in the Boat Race 1 April 2022 Hugo Durward has been selected to row in the Cambridge Men's Reserve Boat for The Gemini Boat Race 2022 on Sunday 3 April.
Sidney student selected for Varsity Match 25 March 2022 First-year clinical Medicine student Ben Jackson will be in the starting line-up in one of the most hotly anticipated sports matches in the Oxbridge calendar - the Varsity Rugby Match on the 2 April.
Sidney at the Cambridge Festival 2022 22 March 2022 The Cambridge Festival will take place from 31 March – 10 April this year. Take a look at some Sidney highlights.
Sidney Fellow supporting Red Cross fundraising for Ukraine 18 March 2022 Professor Rosamond McKitterick, Emeritus Fellow at Sidney, will be taking part in the Musicians for Ukraine live performance of the Brahms Requiem in aid of the Red Cross.
Sidney Fellow awarded Pilkington Prize 16 March 2022 Dr Robbie Duschinsky, Fellow and Director of Studies at Sidney in Sociology, is one of the 2022 Pilkington Prize winners, the University’s highest teaching award.
