Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, Trinity Street, Cambridge (2026)

27/05/2026

Gonville & Caius College Fellow Professor Malcolm Smith has been elected as a Fellow of The Royal Society, in recognition of his distinguished work as Professor of Control Engineering at Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge and wider research.

Professor Smith, who became a Fellow of Caius in 1990, is one of seven University of Cambridge academics to be named in the 2026 intake of over 90 Royal Society Fellows.

“It is an extraordinary honour to be elected as a Fellow of this esteemed learned society,” Professor Smith said.

“I am conscious of a debt to many people, to my students, for their brilliance and dedication and the enriching experience of our shared journey of discovery, to all who supported me so generously in my University and College and the institutions I have been associated with, and to the exceptional colleagues in academia and industry who I was most fortunate to be able to collaborate with over many years, and whose contribution to my work cannot be overstated.”

Professor Smith’s research is concerned with the analysis and design of feedback control systems, as they are deployed across many areas of technology, with focus on robustness to errors and uncertainty, and optimality.

Gonville & Caius College Fellow Professor Malcolm Smith has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society, in recognition of his distinguished work as Professor of Control Engineering at the University of Cambridge and wider research. Professor Smith, who became a Fellow of Caius in 1990, is one of....

22/05/2026

Students of Gonville & Caius College demonstrated their generosity and community spirit by winning a fundraising competition between the 31 colleges of the University of Cambridge this month.
The Cambridge FundRace is a good-faith fundraising competition decided by which college raises the most funds for the selected charity.

Led by the Gonville & Caius Students’ Union President Max Ferrara (History 2025), Caius students were the recipients of the awards for Overall winner and Most individual donations, with 64 students donating.

Caius students raised £547 towards the £2,352 total, which was raised in support of Wintercomfort, a charity which has helped those in need of shelter, food and clothes in Cambridge for over 30 years.

Students of Gonville & Caius College demonstrated their generosity and community spirit by winning a fundraising competition between the 31 colleges of the University of Cambridge this month. The Cambridge FundRace is a good-faith fundraising competition decided by which college raises the most fund...

20/05/2026

Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire, a book by Gonville & Caius College Fellow Professor Sujit Sivasundaram, has been celebrated by a new prize inaugurated on the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of the founding of the International Committee of Historical Sciences (CIHS).

Waves Across the South, which won the prestigious British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding in October 2021 and the Jerry Bentley Book Prize for World History, was named runner-up for the Zeev Sternhell Prize by the International Commission for the History of the French Revolution (CIHRF).

Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire, a book by Gonville & Caius College Fellow Professor Sujit Sivasundaram, has been celebrated by a new prize inaugurated on the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of the founding of the International Committee of Historical Sciences (C...

19/05/2026

Gonville & Caius College Fellow Dr Shruti Iyer has won the Law and Society Association Dissertation Prize for 2026 for her DPhil thesis.

Dr Iyer, who became a Fellow of Caius in October 2025 through the Research Fellowship Competition, was honoured for her thesis, conducted at the University of Oxford and entitled Silicosis and the State: Valuing Life and Labour in Contemporary India. She examined how silicosis, an incurable lung disease caused by prolonged exposure to silica dust, has become a site of political struggle involving workers, activists, and the state in Rajasthan, India.

Dr Iyer is scheduled to receive the prize in San Francisco, California, at the LSA Annual Meeting, which takes place from May 28 to 31.

Gonville & Caius College Fellow Dr Shruti Iyer has won the Law and Society Association Dissertation Prize for 2026 for her DPhil thesis.

18/05/2026

Staff from Caius House, a Battersea-based Youth and Community Centre founded by students and Fellows of Gonville & Caius in the late 19th Century, earlier this term visited Cambridge where they were hosted by College Archivist James Cox, Project Officer Catriona Higgins and the Dean, The Revd Dr Carolyn Hammond.

Delrita Agyapong, the CEO at Caius House Youth Club, and colleagues had a tour of the College, lunch in Hall and met the Master, Professor Richard Gilbertson. Next the group delved into the Archive, learning more from primary sources about Gonville & Caius’ association with the centre which continues to have youth and community at its heart. Caius House provides a meeting place, support and theatrical and sporting pastimes for young people aged between eight and 25. Many of its members call themselves Caians, and the charity’s trustees are mostly drawn from Caians.

“The Caius House team travelled to Cambridge to deepen our understanding of the rich history behind the Caius name, exploring the legacy, values and traditions that continue to inspire the work we do every single day,” Delrita says.

“This was more than just a trip; it was a chance to reflect on where we come from, strengthen our vision for where we’re going and connect the past with the future of youth and community development. The experience reminded us that legacy isn’t just inherited, it’s built through impact, purpose and people.”

With the enthusiastic support of the Master, the Dean and the Archive team, there is an ambition to reprise the annual football match between Caius House and College students, or a similar initiative, to strengthen relationships between the groups.

Staff from Caius House, a Battersea-based Youth and Community Centre founded by students and Fellows of Gonville & Caius in the late 19th Century, earlier this term visited Cambridge where they were hosted by College Archivist James Cox, Project Officer Catriona Higgins and the Dean, The Revd Dr Car...

15/05/2026

"Sometimes the last thing you want to do is get up at 5.30am to go row..." says Honora Verdone (History MPhil 2020), so why did this routine become such a big part of her life? Read the interview on the College website, and learn what 'Gone-ville but not forgotten' is...

Honora, is pictured in the hat, front row, second from right, with members of Caius Boat Club at a Boat Club Dinner.

Seeking social interactions and exercise during the Covid-19 pandemic, Honora Verdone (History MPhil 2020) turned to rowing. It was a life-changing experience. Growing up in the Rocky Mountains, Honora’s sporting passions were skiing and figure skating. In October 2020, persuaded by her postgradua...

08/05/2026

As Keeper of the Red Book, Avi Hyman (Computer Science 2024) both retained and recorded the history of Minas Tirith, the Cambridge Tolkein Society.

“It was one of the draws towards coming to Cambridge,” Avi says. “It’s been going since 1983 and has got some storied traditions. We have our Foreyule Feast, which is a Christmas-style dinner and the recipes have been the same for almost 30 years; we have run Eagle Debates – like a balloon debate but there are no balloons in Tolkein’s world – since at least 2002; and, games nights such as ‘Tinúviel Pursuit’ have existed since at least 1998.”

Cambridge, Oxford, and Edinburgh are the only University Tolkien societies that are official Smials of the The Tolkien Society. Cambridge Tolkien Society is the longest-serving University Tolkien Society in the UK. “Legend has it that the society was named Minas Tirith back when there was no Oxford society for the express purpose of implying that an Oxford society would correspond to Minas Morgul,” Avi adds.

Avi’s main responsibilities as secretary (Keeper of the Red Book) were communicating with members and recording meetings. He was elected Steward (President) at the Annual General Meeting in Lent Term and will hold the position for the next year.

Read the full story on the College website (https://www.facebook.com/groups/CamTolkSoc/)

https://www.cai.cam.ac.uk/news/tolkien-soc-one-draws-towards-coming-cambridge

As Keeper of the Red Book, Avi Hyman (Computer Science 2024) both retained and recorded the history of Minas Tirith, the Cambridge Tolkein Society.

06/05/2026

A wave taller than London’s The Shard or the Empire State Building devastating everything in its path sounds like the plot of a scientifically-questionable Hollywood disaster film. But this happened last summer, in a real fjord visited by thousands of tourists.

The second highest tsunami ever struck Tracy Arm Fjord, Alaska, in August 2025 with a runup as high as 481-metres. This wave, triggered by a major landslide preconditioned by glacier retreat, is explored in a new research paper co-authored by Gonville & Caius College Fellow Dr Maximillian Van Wyk De Vries and published in Science today. Van Wyk de Vries is Assistant Professor in Natural Hazards in the Departments of Geography and Earth Sciences and Director of the Cambridge Complex and Multihazard Research Group (CoMHaz) University of Cambridge.

Dr Van Wyk de Vries said: “The fact that this did not become a major disaster was largely a matter of luck and timing. The landslide happened early in the morning, before most vessels had travelled far into the fjord. Had the same event occurred later in the day, the consequences could have been substantially worse.”

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A wave taller than London’s The Shard or the Empire State Building devastating everything in its path sounds like the plot of a scientifically-questionable Hollywood disaster film. But this happened last summer, in a real fjord visited by thousands of tourists.

01/05/2026

By following her passion, Michelle Crees (Engineering 2020) has found herself making costumes and props for the next Star Wars movie.

“Everybody thinks of film and think you either act or you’re behind the camera doing something creative, but there is probably every single industry in microcosm in film,” Michelle says.

“It’s its own self-sustaining world, with lawyers and accountants, carpenters and electricians – and engineers.”

Ahead of Star Wars Day ("May the Fourth by with you"), read the interview with Michelle on the College website.

By following her passion, Michelle Crees (Engineering 2020) has found herself making costumes and props for the next Star Wars movie. “Everybody thinks of film and think you either act or you’re behind the camera doing something creative, but there is probably every single industry in microcosm ...

28/04/2026

Dr Grace Amedor (Medicine 2019) has led a University of Cambridge study that has found that stresses such as systemic racism and socioeconomic disadvantage may sensitise key processes in the body during pregnancy. The work undertaken while Dr Amedor was a student at Gonville & Caius College, and alongside senior author Fellow Professor Dino Giussani, helps to explain why black women and their babies face significantly higher rates of complication than white women.

These altered physiological processes may lead to higher rates of preeclampsia in black women, and higher rates of preterm birth and fetal growth restriction in black babies, compared to white women and their babies. Black women are nearly three times more likely to die during pregnancy, the study found.

Dr Amedor, now a resident doctor, added: “I wanted to investigate after I read that black women were much more likely to die in, or just after, pregnancy than white women. As a black woman myself that was scary to hear. I was surprised that although this disparity had been known for a long time, there was little research into the potential underlying physiological reasons.”

Dr Grace Amador (Medicine 2019) has led a University of Cambridge study that has found that stresses such as systemic racism and socioeconomic disadvantage may sensitise key processes in the body during pregnancy. The work undertaken while Dr Amador was a student at Gonville & Caius College, and und...

28/04/2026

The Victoria and Albert Museum East Storehouse has been shortlisted for Museum of the Year. Caian Lizzie Hines (Philosophy 2000) is Director of the V&A’s Redesign Programme. Perhaps her proudest achievement is the introduction of Order an Object, which allows anyone to book to see any of the 1.7 million artefacts housed in the V&A’s collection, spanning 5,000 years of design history and including some of the greatest items ever made, freely available, “as easy as booking an Uber”. V&A East Storehouse has been described as one of the ‘Best places to visit in the world’ by Time Magazine and Time Out which cited the Order an Object Service

“The distinctive thing about the V&A is that it has always been a pioneer,” says Lizzie. “It was the first museum to have lighting so that, after a day at the factory, everyone could come and walk around the museum at night and be inspired about what might be possible. It was also the first museum to have an artist in residence or a cafe. I hope that some of the things we do in this programme are potential contenders for being part of that history of the V&A, caring about innovation.”

For a full interview with Lizzie, visit the College website.

https://www.cai.cam.ac.uk/news/developing-future-showcasing-pas

Lizzie Hines (Philosophy 2000) has spent four years transforming London’s Victoria & Albert Museum. Her work as Director of the V&A’s Redesign Programme, launched in 2021, looks to the museum’s history to guide its future. “The distinctive thing about the V&A is that it has always been a pio...

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