Murray Edwards College, Cambridge facts for kids
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Fountain Court in July 2019
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Arms of Murray Edwards College
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| University | University of Cambridge | |||||||||||||||
| Location | Huntingdon Road, Cambridge (map) | |||||||||||||||
| Full name | Murray Edwards College, founded as New Hall, in the University of Cambridge | |||||||||||||||
| Abbreviation | MUR | |||||||||||||||
| Established | 1954 | |||||||||||||||
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| Gender | Women | |||||||||||||||
| Sister college | St Anne's College, Oxford | |||||||||||||||
| President | Dorothy Byrne | |||||||||||||||
| Undergraduates | 360 | |||||||||||||||
| Postgraduates | 132 | |||||||||||||||
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Murray Edwards College is a women-only constituent college of the University of Cambridge. It was founded in 1954 as New Hall. In 2008, following a donation of £30 million by alumna Ros Edwards and her husband Steve, it was renamed Murray Edwards College, honouring its first President, Rosemary Murray and the donors.
Notable alumnae
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Astrophysicist Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell
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Oscar-winning actress Tilda Swinton
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BBC journalist Mishal Husain
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Comedian Sue Perkins
- Manel Abeysekera, diplomat
- Baroness Haleh Afshar, professor in politics and women's studies at the University of York
- Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, astrophysicist who discovered the first four pulsars
- Helen Cooper, literary scholar
- Sarah Coakley, theologian and philosopher
- Liv Garfield, chief executive of Severn Trent Water and youngest female CEO of a FTSE 100 company.
- Amika George, activist and founder of the #FreePeriods campaign against period poverty
- Roma Gill, academic and literary scholar
- Jane Heal, philosopher, Emeritus Professor
- Angela Hobbs, philosopher, and Professor of the Public Understanding of Philosophy at the University of Sheffield
- Mishal Husain, newsreader for BBC News
- Julia King, engineer and former Vice-Chancellor, University of Aston
- Clare Lawrence, actress
- Helen Macdonald, prize-winning author of H is for Hawk
- Joanna MacGregor, concert pianist, conductor, and composer
- Philippa Marrack, immunologist known for her T cell research
- Hattie Morahan, actress
- Elizabeth Norton, writer and historian
- Maggie O'Farrell, winner of the 2020 Women's prize for fiction.
- Sue Perkins, comedian
- Dame Jessica Rawson, art historian, former Warden of Merton College, Oxford
- Josie Rourke, artistic director of the Donmar Warehouse and film director
- Susan Sherratt, archaeologist
- Elizabeth Slater, Professor of Archaeology at the University of Liverpool
- Dame Barbara Stocking, Director of Oxfam, former president of the college (elected in 2013)
- Tilda Swinton, Academy Award-winning actress
- Carina Tyrrell, British-Swiss public health physician and former Miss United Kingdom of Miss World
- Frances Vernon, novelist
- Nicola Walker, actress
- Claudia Winkleman, TV presenter and journalist
- Vicki Young, Chief Political Correspondent of BBC News
Images for kids
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The Paula Browne House Conference Centre (formerly the Kaetsu Centre) provides conference facilities and accommodation for Murray Edwards
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Accommodation block
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Library
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Interior of the dome and dining hall
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The Murray Edwards College porters' lodge, with the dome over the dining hall in the background
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