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Statement from the Heads of Cambridge Colleges

22 May 2020

A joint statement in response to claims that Cambridge will be moving entirely online next year.

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King's Fellow assisting with NHS neurological cases during pandemic

21 May 2020

For the past three months Dr Sarah Crisp has been working with GPs from across the region to help deal with cases remotely.

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An appraisal of teaching in Easter Term

21 May 2020

Professor Robin Osborne discusses some of the advantages and drawbacks of conducting supervisions online

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King's alumnus presents Bach musical tour

7 May 2020

James Gilchrist presents a half-hour Guide to Bach's St Matthew Passion.

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Insights from Addenbrooke's

7 May 2020

King's Bye-Fellows Fraz Mir and Ben Ravenhill discuss their first-hand experiences on the front line against COVID-19.

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VE Day broadcast to include music from King's

7 May 2020

A special service has been created by the Royal British Legion to mark VE Day.

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Africa's Voices combatting COVID-19

23 Apr 2020

The project co-founded by King’s Fellow Sharath Srinivasan could play a vital role in preventing millions being infected in sub-Saharan Africa.

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King's Engineers design and build affordable ventilator

17 Apr 2020

James Taylor is one of a number of King's Fellows and graduate students who have been building a ventilator system that can be manufactured and maintained in low and middle-income countries.

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Graduate student helps launch sounds app to help inform COVID-19 diagnosis

16 Apr 2020

PhD student Api Hasthanasombat is part of a team that is collecting data that could make diagnoses based on the sounds of a participant's breathing and voice.

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Final-Year Medics Graduate Early

16 Apr 2020

Special disposition has been granted in order that the graduating students can play a role in the management of the coronavirus pandemic.

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📣 Save the date for King's first Giving Day. From 9am on 5th December to 9pm on 6th December, the global King's community will come together to celebrate what's special about King's, and to raise vital funds to support student wellbeing, our world-famous chapel and choir, and to tackle student hardship. 👉Join us at kings.givingday.co.uk #KingsGivingDay #YourTimeStartsNow #Taskmaster
  
You may be wondering, what's the significance of 5th-6th December? The choice of date for our first Giving Day is no accident...👀watch to find out more. 👉external link #KingsGivingDay #YourTimeStartsNow #GivingDay
 
🏆The annual King’s Entrepreneurship Prize (KEP) is now open for applications! What innovative venture have you been working on? How could an award from the KEP competition help develop its potential? Past KEP winners are out there promoting a next generation of lithium-ion batteries, advancing cancer care, helping aid national security and personal safety, as well as fighting child obesity and helping school communities with no-fuss MIS platforms. 👇 Find more information and enter the competition at bit.ly/KEP2025 (🔗in bio). 📆Deadline for submissions is 20 January 2025. #Entrepreneurship #InnovativeIdeas #SocialImpact #KingsEntrepreneurshipPrize
 
⏰Set your alarms! Only three more sleeps until Giving Day! Want to double your impact? All early gifts will be matched until we reach our first £10,000. 👉 kings.givingday.co.uk #KingsGivingDay #YourTimeStartsNow
 
All the King's voices... 🎶 Founded in 1997, King's Voices is our mixed voice choir and has a regular programme of services and performances both in the UK and further afield. The choir is open to all students, even those from other Cambridge colleges if space allows. Those interested in joining King's Voices should apply to the Director of King's Voices (Ralph Woodward ralph.woodward@kings.cam.ac.uk) once their place at Cambridge is confirmed. 📢You can hear King's Voices at Evensong every Monday evening in term time. #KingsVoices #CambridgeChoir #MixedVoiceChoir #ChoralMusic #Evensong #CambridgeMusic
  
How can open networks shape our future? Listen to Pramod Varma, #technology visionary and architect behind several transformative initiatives in #India, including Aadhaar, the country’s groundbreaking digital identity programme. #digitaltransformation #technology #indiantechnology #innovation #opennetworks #techforgood #kingselab @thomroulet
 
On Friday, the College community came together to take part in our 'Wildflowers for Wellbeing' event. 🌷🌻🍃 Students were invited to help the College gardeners plant a variety of bulbs in our wildflower meadow, including Narcissus pseudonarcissus, also known as the wild daffodil or Lent lily. Special thanks to College Nurse Rachael Arkle for helping to organise the afternoon as part of the College's welfare and wellbeing support. We look forward to reaping the rewards in the Spring! #WildflowersForWellbeing #GardeningTogether #WildflowerMeadow #WellbeingSupport #GoldenHour @Cambridgeuniversity
 
Our Librarians have done it again! 📚 To mark Disability Awareness Month (14 November - 20 December), the Team have put together a fantastic display of titles to inform and inspire. Full details below 👇 ---- Crippled: Austerity and the Demonization of Disabled People / Frances Ryan Autobiographies and Other Writings / Helen Keller Ableism in Academia / Brown & Leigh We’re Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation / Eric Garcia Demystifying Disability / Emily Ladau The Future is Disabled / Leah Piepzna-Samarasinha Made Possible: Stories of Success By People With Learning Disabilities / Saba Salman Living With Hearing Loss and Deafness / Samantha Baines #DisabilityAwarenessMonth #InclusiveLiterature #DiverseVoices #UKDHM #CambridgeUniversity #UniversityOfCambridge @kingsdisabledstudents @kings.welfare
 
The College's Christmas elves (ok, the Gardening Team) were in action today making some special deliveries ranging from 4ft to 7ft (the trees, not the elves 😉) 🎄🎄🎄 #ChristmasAtKings #ElvesInAction #ChristmasTrees #MariahIsDefrosting #UniversityOfCambridge #CambridgeUniversity
 
Thank you to everyone who joined last night's sold out @KCMSofficial concert! 🎶🎻 Beginning with Finzi’s Dies Natalis, our talented musicians performed a stunning set, which included everything from Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings to Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony. A perfect reminder of the unity the arts can bring. #KCMSConcert #ClassicalMusic #MusicCommunity #Beethoven #UniversityofCambridge #CambridgeUniversity
 
🏳️‍⚧️ To mark the start of Transgender Awareness Week, our fantastic librarians have unveiled a new display, including four new titles: He/She/They - Schuyler Bailar Fair Play - Katie Barnes The Risk it Takes to Bloom - Raquel Willis We See Each Other - Tre'vell Anderson Happy reading! 📚 #TransAwareness #CambridgeCollegeLibraries #LGBTQLiterature #TransAwarenessWeek #DiversityInLiterature
 
At 11am today, members of the King’s community joined together in a two-minute silence, to remember those lost in all conflicts. Posted @withregram • @cambridgeuniversity Today is Armistice Day, marking the end of the fighting of World War I. At 11AM, we join the nation in a two-minute silence so that we may remember the service and sacrifice of all those who died. Image description: poppies in King’s College wildflower meadow