King's Herald

A paper co-written by King’s PhD student Ash Simkins highlights that at least 80% of the world’s most important sites for biodiversity on land currently contain human developments. 👇 Read more on the College website, under 'A Greener King's' @cambridgeuniversity @birdlife.international @wwf @rspb_love_nature

On #worldwaterday we want to celebrate the work of all who, like King's Entrepreneurship Prize 2019 joint winner @waterscope, are working to overcome global water inequality. In this image, WaterScope co-founder Alexander Patto (KC 2012) is seen testing water quality at Nyarugusu refugee camp, Tanzania, back in 2020.

With Lent Term now over and College feeling rather quiet, we are looking forward to sunnier days when we can catch up outdoors and enjoy #springincambridge Sunny 📷 taken by Alice last year.

Only one week to go... The Gemini Boat Race is NEXT SUNDAY, 26 MARCH! King's undergraduate Luca Ferraro has been selected once more to represent Cambridge in the Boat Race, while King's PhD student Janeska de Jonge will be part of the Blondie crew. 🙌💜💜 Watch live on @bbcone @bbcsport from 15:30 BST, worldwide on YouTube, or in person from the Fan Parks in Fulham & Hammersmith. #TheBoatRace #TheGeminiBoatRace

End of Lent Term and also end of another very busy week for conservators Rebekka Katajisto and Grace An, who have been treating paintings from King's art collection that are usually displayed in College offices, the Hall, and Fellow and student rooms. Rebekka and Grace, both in their 2nd year of the Conservation of Easel Paintings course, are working under the supervision of Victoria Sutcliffe from the Hamilton Kerr Institute. Victoria says "It is a joy to work at King's on such an important collection of Bloomsbury Group and other artists, and to support our students to learn by working on such a wide variety of paintings and learning new techniques." Read more about their work on the College website, under 'News' (link in bio). @stedmundscam @wolfsoncollegecam @fitzmuseum_uk

During Michaelmas Term, King’s College Library collaborated with @cambridgeuniversitylibrary to digitise its copy of Shakespeare’s First Folio, ahead of the 400th anniversary of the book’s first publication in 1623. Now King's very own copy of Shakespeare's First Folio can be consulted online. 👉Swipe to see Amélie Deblauwe from the UL’s Digital Content Unit photographing the folio, and find out more on the College website, under 'News' (link in bio). #shakespearefirstfolio

With the sun finally out (or nearly) and planting season around the corner, we wanted to share some pics of the student allotments back in 2020, when the few students in residence managed to grow from maize and potatoes to courgettes, beans, squashes and even salsify! No pressure, but we know Head Gardener Steve has recently been organising sowing sessions for the King's Allotment Society so we expect to see the student allotments looking like this again very soon... 😉

Thank you, @acambridgediary, for capturing this great moment for @kingscollegeboatclub and the W1 crew, who managed to bump on each day of racing! That willow looks great in your hair. 😉 Congratulations to all three crews: you certainly had a tough time out there in the rain and snow. #yeahkings💜 #lentbumps #womenatkings

#FlashbackFriday to sunnier Lent Bumps (2020 as captured by @acambridgediary) where sunglasses and visors were bang on trend. This year the wind, rain and snow have been an added challenge for our three @kingscollegeboatclub crews. Go King's! 💜💜💜 #lentbumps

Congratulations to King's Fellows Fraz Mir and Thomas Roulet (pictured here at @cambridgejudge) on being awarded two of the thirteen 2023 Pilkington Prizes for excellence in teaching. 👏 The Prizes are awarded annually by the Vice-Chancellor to members of staff in recognition of their contributions to the teaching programme of a Department, Faculty or the University as a whole. Read more about current and past winners of this very special award on the College website, under 'News'.

Join us this evening for a special service in Chapel to celebrate International Women’s Day. 👭 King’s Voices will be singing music written by female composers, spanning a wide range of choral traditions from the 12th to the 21st century. Ahead of the service, King's Chaplain Mary Kells said: "I’m delighted that we will be celebrating International Women’s Day in King’s Chapel, with a sequence of music and readings, all of which honour and acknowledge the experience, vitality and creativity of women, from antiquity to the present day." #internationalwomensday #IWD #universityofcambridge #cambridgeuniversity #musicatcambridge

Bird's-eye view of yesterday's TTP Cambridge Half Marathon runners (12,000 people signed up this year!) going around the sleepy wildflower meadow towards the bridge and the Backs. 🦅