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FROM THE PROVOST From the Provost I am writing this article in September 2020 knowing that, by the time you will be reading it, the College will have completed a Michaelmas term like no other. As I write, staff and Fellows are beginning to reopen the College buildings after their six-month closure due to the pandemic. We are all greatly looking forward to welcoming students back and to doing everything we can to make their experiences rich and to keep them and the rest of our community safe. Dr Claire Craig CBE My first year at Queen’s began, like that of other freshers, with the excitement of meeting all the remarkable people connected with the College: students, Old Members, staff and Fellows. Michaelmas term included learning how to handle the Loving Cup and welcoming the Visitor, the outgoing Archbishop of York, John Sentamu, to celebrate the 300 th anniversary of the Chapel. The President of the Seychelles visited, as a result of Lindsay Turnbull’s work on the Aldabra coral reef, researching ecosystem impacts and working with DPhil student April Burt who co-led a project to remove 25 tonnes of plastic waste. Then in March the pandemic struck. The College had one of the early positive cases of COVID-19. We completed Hilary term due to the incredible fortitude, good sense and hard work of staff and students alike. Throughout the Easter Vacation, Fellows worked hard to move all teaching and exams online. So, with the College buildings shut and most support staff on furlough, we completed Trinity term virtually. We are all particularly proud of our Finalists: the College had more Firsts than in any previous year and, as importantly, all our students worked hard to complete their studies in extremely difficult circumstances. I am grateful to my predecessor Paul Madden for leaving the College as a strong place, capable of dealing well with the emergencies and difficulties that beset it this year. It is also due to him and others of even earlier generations, including those who have supported the College through donations, that Queen’s remains better placed than many places of higher education to weather the economic hardships we all face. The financial impacts of the pandemic so far have included the inevitable devaluation of the endowment, the loss of conference income and reduced rents from commercial properties. Because of the College’s underlying financial strength we have, however, so far been able to continue to provide hardship funds for students and to maintain the full salaries of staff when they were on furlough. 6 The Queen’s College | College Record 2020
From the Provost As well as dealing with the consequences of COVID-19 for the College, students and academics have also contributed in major ways to tackling the pandemic. To mention a few, with apologies to the many others, Jasmina Panovska-Griffiths’ modelling has been regularly discussed in the national media; and Queen’s academics have contributed to work on ventilator and vaccine technologies, and on the economic impacts of the pandemic. Reflecting the role of a college in being a place where different disciplines are in conversation with each other, Laming Research Fellow Marta Arnaldi organised a fascinating series of seminars on Translating Illness. While everyone in the UK was still in lockdown, the storm of events associated with the death of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter movements created major debates across the College’s communities. The College’s statement on 9 June committed it to considering how to create an even more inclusive environment for the future. The statement stimulated much further thoughtful discussion, and Fellows, staff and students worked together on practical actions in areas from recruitment to student support. As always, what the College is and does matters, but where it will have the biggest long term impact is in its traditions of intellectual enquiry and debate, in how it educates students and in the research contributions of its Fellows. College Record 2020 | The Queen’s College 7
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Since we launched the Centre it has
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The first issue contains eight arti
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Our International Book Club gathere
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A YEAR IN THE MCR President Nadia H
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A YEAR IN THE JCR Hattie Bates JCR
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Later that term, Dr Jennifer Cassid
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During Michaelmas, due to high wate
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concerts are free, open to the publ
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QCAFC Captain: Matt Suter Following
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It is difficult not to wonder what
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Gemma quickly established herself a
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netball for only 20 minutes, typica
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But I am far more excited about the
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ATHLETIC DISTINCTIONS Blues Fred Ne
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One of the highlights of the Colleg
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Old Members’ Activities cancelled
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40 YEARS OF CO-EDUCATION AT QUEEN
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Celebrate 40 years of women at Quee
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The first priority was to look at t
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The Network’s first online event
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1977 Giles Orton Appointed Priest-i
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PUBLICATIONS Bettison, Norman (1983
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Teague, Anthony known as Brother An
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Comparative Literature at Columbia
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Bridging the gap between science an
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Years Name Subject 1965-1966 Robert
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College Servants and Vacation Emplo
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paid a small retaining wage, some o
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of 1952. On retirement to the Engad
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introduced the notion of ‘disrupt
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insect, a study which resulted in a
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JOHN GRAY John Michael Campbell Gra
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KEITH MASLIN Dr Keith Thomas Maslin
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DICK STEWART Richard E. Stewart die
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PIETER ZWART Pieter loved his time
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