Pembroke College was heralded as the Smithsonian Institution’s “Gateway to Oxford University” at a gala reception held the evening of October 19 at the Smithsonian Castle in Washington. Julian Raby, the distinguished Director of the Smithsonian’s Sackler and Freer Galleries of Art, in the evening’s keynote remarks praised the close and growing relationship between […]

Great news! Oxford is the first UK university to top the World University Rankings for 2016. To learn more, click here

Pembroke Fellows Nicholas Cole (left) and Peter Claus (right) visited Boston on September 6 and met for lunch with Pembroke College Foundation President Tom Herman (center). Nicholas reported great progress on his U.S. Constitutional Convention digitization project, based at Pembroke, which will be publically launched in Oxford on October 14, 2016. In addition to his […]

Sterling Year For Pembroke Academics —  2016 Norrington Table Results Pembroke College obtained its highest Norrington Table score ever, vaulting 16 places in the newly released rankings for the academic year 2015/2016. Pembroke tied with Brasenose and Univ. as the colleges that had risen most in the ranks, moving from last place in 2014/2015 to […]

Novelist, screenwriter, extreme sports enthusiast, renowned Republican political consultant, and epicure Stuart Stevens ’72 is out with a timely new book, “The Innocent Have Nothing to Fear” (Random House), a dark comedy about an American presidential campaign involving a Trump-like character and set in a contested Republican convention. “I started the book before the (2012) […]

  Pembroke’s celebrated historian Dr. Adrian Gregory reflects on the First World War and the remembrance on the 100th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme in this video. http://www.oxfordtoday.ox.ac.uk/culture/videos-podcasts-galleries/oxford-great-war      

Multiple congratulations to famed maritime historian, Professor John B. Hattendorf ‘73, who was awarded the prestigious Doctor of Letters degree (D.Litt) by the University of Oxford at a ceremony in March 2016. John is Chairman of the Maritime History Department and the Ernest J. King Chair of Maritime History at the US Naval War College […]

Congratulations to Professor David Finegold ‘85, who has been named President of the Chatham University in Pittsburgh, PA.  He becomes the nineteenth President in the University’s 147 year history. David graduated summa cum laude from Harvard in 1985, and was a Rhodes Scholar at Pembroke. He received his D.Phil. in Politics in 1992. In selecting […]

It is with great sadness that I must report that John Barlow, ’52, Pembroke’s former acting Development Officer of many years, suffered a stroke and died on March 22, 2016.  He was 83. John was a great friend of generations of North American Pembrokians, and in particular of the author of this note.  He was […]

Walter Isaacson, ’74, received the prestigious Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism on March 3 in a ceremony at the Shorenstein Center for Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. Walter is a former chairman and CEO of CNN, former editor of TIME, current president and CEO of the Aspen Institute, author […]