Making a difference
The impact of your
donations to Queens'.
Fellowships
204 donors contributed to The John Eatwell Fellowship, reaching its £2.5 million target back in June. The College decided to use the Fellowship in the first instance to enhance its medical provision, given the current pandemic. Dr Janet Maguire was appointed as the inaugural John Eatwell Fellow, thereby adding support for medicine and veterinary medicine teaching at Queens’.
A further two Fellowships have also been endowed recently. The Robin Walker Fellowship in Computer Science has been established in honour of our long-standing Fellow of the College, who retired in the summer from the Governing Body and becomes a Life Fellow.
The Bradley Fellowship in Chemistry has been endowed by Trevor Bradley (1989), who has also given money to support the combined Men’s and Women’s Football Club at the College.
Support from alumni and friends has enabled the College to endow 21 Fellowships in total – more than one third of the Official Fellowships.
Dr Robin Walker
Dr Robin Walker
Scholarships
Provision of postgraduate funding is one of our top
priorities at Queens’ for the coming years. As such, we are delighted to announce a new partnership with the American Stamps Scholars Programme to create Stamps Scholarships at Queens’.
These are post-matriculation awards designed to provide support towards fees and maintenance costs, as well as a stipend for enrichment activities such as studying or volunteering abroad, conducting research, or participating in a leadership programme or academic conference. The programme seeks to attract the most promising PhD candidates from the United States and foster their academic and personal development throughout their time at Queens’.
The first recipients are Jerry Chen and Gerard Kuenning.
“Receiving this scholarship has been tremendously exciting; it has secured my ability to continue my research and finish my degree, for which I am greatly indebted to the Stamps Scholarship.
I feel very honoured to have been selected by this group to be part of their organisation and community, and to represent them. I love their emphasis on leadership and personal growth; it is very important to them, as an organisation, that you are maturing as an individual.
To them, the life experiences the scheme offers are just as important as the academic work."
The Henry Bullock Scholarship for Graduate Studies in Classics has been established anonymously by the parent of a former Classics undergraduate, in appreciation of everything the College and Dr David Butterfield (Director of Studies in Classics) did for the student during their time at Queens’. The Scholarship is named after Henry Bullock, a former Fellow of Queens’ and one of the major figures in starting Greek studies in Cambridge before his early death in 1526.
Jerry Chen
Jerry Chen
Gerard Kuenning with Glenda Teasdale
Gerard Kuenning with Glenda Teasdale
Covid-19 Student Support &
Mairi Hurrell Fund
The COVID-19 Student Support Fund is ongoing for this academical year. This Fund provides financial support to students in need, including providing IT equipment, covering additional travel costs, supporting enhanced bursaries and offering assistance with rent payments. It incorporates the Mairi Hurrell Fund, now established permanently for all those who wish to support the ground-breaking work that Queens’ does to provide for the welfare of its students, named in honour of Mairi Hurrell (Hon Fellow).
Ryan Hoffmann
Ryan Hoffmann
Mia Willows
Mia Willows
Extra-curricular
Extra-curricular activities are being increasingly supported by alumni and friends of the College. Recently, Dr Richard Hargreaves (1964) has endowed a second sports bursary for a student to pursue sport with the University at any level and Glenda Teasdale has provided further funds for The Mike Turner Sports Bursary.
Ryan Hoffmann (Modern & Medieval Languages) is a Blues footballer, who incurred significant costs to attend the University’s training camp and tournament in America. Ryan is supported by the George Band Sports Bursary, named after our most illustrious mountaineer.
“Having support from the College to me is a uniquely Cambridge feeling. This grant allowed me to have a once-in-a lifetime experience travelling to Miami with the University Football Club and cemented my starting place in the Blues team. I am extremely grateful for this support from the College, which has meant I could achieve a dream of playing Blues Football.”
"Friends of Queens’ Music (FoQM) paid for my lessons in Javanese Gamelan, specifically learning to play the rebab
after I came across the instrument at the
Cambridge Gamelan Society.
Then I had lessons with a gamelan teacher visiting from Indonesia and staying at Queens’; I was also invited to attend a session with the Southbank Gamelan Players and perform at the Wayang Kulit held in Old Hall. I feel it is so important to make sure that the music-making at Queens’ is diverse and inclusive. This would have been impossible without the FoQM.”
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