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Archive for 2011
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Boardwalk Posted on Nov. 18, 2011
Girtonian Lady Kitty Chisholm is part of a group putting together a professional development programme, Boardwalk, to help women achieve Board level positions. Survey participants are needed.
You can view the survey here - www.surveymonkey.com/s/8BP7YPY
For more details about Boardwalk please visit the following website http://boardreadywomen.com/ -
Professor Jane Moody Posted on Nov. 2, 2011
Girton is sad to announce the death of former Research Fellow, Professor Jane Moody, who was Rosalind, Lady Carlisle Research Fellow at Girton 1993-1997.
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Festival of Ideas Success Posted on Oct. 26, 2011
From Egyptian masks to Bodies in the Garden: Girton's second Festival of Ideas day is a big success
Over 150 members of the public joined members of the College in visiting the Festival of Ideas event at Girton last Saturday. As well as a talk on 'How to date a grave' by Kristin Leith, research student from UCL's Insitute of Archaeology, adults and children alike enjoyed making Egyptian masks from cardboard and 'shabti' figures in clay. There were also two tours of the site of Girton's Anglo-Saxon burial ground and the College's museum, the Lawrence Room ...
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A new wing at Ash Court Posted on Oct. 17, 2011
Planning Permission for £7.5m Development at Girton College
Continuing in its postion as one of Cambridge's largest and most ambitious Colleges, Girton is to build a new wing.
Award-winning architects, Allies and Morrison step into the shoes of three generations of the Waterhouse family to design the most significant building for 75 years on the Girton site.
The new development, at Ash Court, comprises 50 ensuite bedrooms, and a fitness suite, incorporating changing facilities, a gym and free weights room. It will also include refurbishment of the College’s listed swimming pool and changing facilities.
The scheme underlines ...
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Festival of Ideas and Girton's Lawrence Room Posted on Oct. 13, 2011
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Another Prizewinning PhD Thesis Posted on Oct. 12, 2011
Dr Sébastien Renaux-Petel, who joined Girton in 2010 as a Bye-Fellow, has won the 2010 Saint-Gobain prize, awarded every year by the French Physics Society to an outstanding PhD thesis in all fields of physics and its applications.
His PhD thesis was titled "Cosmological inflation and string theory: multifield aspects and primordial non-Gaussianities". -
Michaelmas Termcard Posted on Sept. 30, 2011
The new Michaelmas Term Chapel Card is now online which gives you all the details about the services taking place this term in the College Chapel.
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New Director of Chapel Music appointed Posted on Sept. 20, 2011
Girton College, Cambridge has announced the appointment of acclaimed tenor Nicholas Mulroy as Director of Chapel Music.
Mr. Mulroy is much in demand professionally, with wide experience across concert, recital and operatic repertoire. Recent highlights include the role of Evangelist in Bach's Christmas Oratorio directed by Sir John Eliot Gardiner, a Glyndebourne debut in Prokofiev’s Betrothal in a Monastery, and a recital of Janáček’s Diary of one who Vanished at the Oxford Lieder Festival.
Commenting on his appointment, Mr. Mulroy said:
“This is a terrific opportunity. I'm enormously excited by what might be achieved here ...
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Head Gardener on local radio Posted on Sept. 13, 2011
Girton's Head Gardener, Robert Bramley, was interviewed this morning on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire about the College Orchard.
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Girton Fellow wins PhD prize Posted on Aug. 16, 2011
Congratulations to Economic Geographer and Bye-Fellow of Girton, Dr Laurent Frideres, who has won the 2011 PhD Prize of the Royal Geographical Society's Economic Geography Research Group. The prize is awarded every year for the best PhD thesis in the field of economic geography.
Dr Frideres' research interests include regional economic development, industrial clusters and trans-national knowledge networks. His PhD thesis was titled "Spatial Industrial Clustering and Competitive Advantage: Comparing Firms Inside and Outside Industry Clusters". He bacame a Bye-Fellow of Girton in 2010.
Links:
Dr Frideres' webpage at the Department of Geography
Announcement of the Prize
Economic Geography ...
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