The United States Capitol hosted a special public unveiling and demonstration by Pembroke Senior Research Fellow Dr. Nicholas Cole of The Quill Project on February 13, 2017. The Quill Project, developed by Dr. Cole and his research and design team at Pembroke with assistance from the Center of Constitutional Studies at Utah Valley University, is a […]

We caught up with Walter Isaacson ’74 recently at the Signet Society in Cambridge, MA. Walter was in town promoting his new biography of Leonardo DaVinci, the #1 New York Times bestseller in only its first week of publication. Walter is stepping down as president of The Aspen Institute, a position he has held since 2003. […]

Congratulations to Sir Roger Bannister, CBE, former Master (1985-1993) and Honorary Fellow of Pembroke College, who was made a Companion of Honour for services to sport in the New Year’s Honours list for 2017.  Sir Roger, 87, becomes one of only 54 living people to have received the honor. ‘I have always been astonishingly lucky […]

    Sen. Richard Lugar ’54 has won the prestigious 2016 Fulbright Prize for International Understanding.  The Fulbright Prize is named in honor of another illustrious Pembrokian, the late Sen. J. William Fulbright 1925. The prize is awarded by the Fulbright Society for distinction in any field which exemplifies the ideals of Sen. Fulbright in promoting […]

Michelle Peluso, ‘93, a former Trustee of the Pembroke College Foundation, has been appointed IBM’s first-ever Chief Marketing Officer. Michelle was formerly CEO of Gilt, the luxury ecommerce company.  Before that she served as global consumer chief marketing and internet officer at Citigroup, and as CEO of the travel site Travelocity. Michelle has served as a […]

  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

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 […]

  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      

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 […]