Get in the holiday spirit with Pembroke’s Nine Lessons and Carols Service — performed on November 26th and 27th, 2023. You can watch them at your convenience, here via YouTube.

  GREAT NEWS…HOT OFF THE PRESS! The World University Rankings are out…and Oxford University was just named the world’s top university for a record, eighth year in a row. You can read a bit about this amazing accomplishment via the university’s alumni portal. Or you can see for yourself here…and also check out how the […]

It is no surprise that Walter Isaacson’s latest book – his biography of Elon Musk – is already a best-seller in its first week of publication. I caught up with Walter on his book tour recently in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he was interviewed by his friend and able interlocutor David Rubenstein. “Why do you write biography?” Rubenstein […]

Join Pembrokian alumnus, Glenn Fine (1979, PPE), as he covers his career as former Inspector General for the US Departments of Justice and Defence, as well as the issues he encountered in these roles, including; investigating abuses to immigrant detainees after the 9/11 attacks; investigating corruption in the Federal Bureau of Prisons; the need for […]

  On Thursday, May 5th Pembroke hosted renowned author, journalist, academic, investor, and Pembrokian, Walter Isaacson for a conversation and Q&A regarding his latest biography The Code Breaker.  This in-college event was also live-streamed for Pembrokians around the globe. It was a fascinating talk.  Just in case you missed it, you can view it here.

To complement his insightful biographies of Steve Jobs, Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein, and Ben Franklin, Walter Isaacson ’74 has authored The Code Breaker— an in-depth account of the life and career of scientist Jennifer Doudna, co-creator of CRISPR and the 2020 winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.   Walter’s biography is already receiving wonderful, advance reviews and […]

The leadership ranks of the Pembroke College Foundation are all the stronger with the recent addition of Marc Mezvinsky ’00 to the Executive Committee.  Marc graciously accepted the newly created role of Vice President, the first in our foundation’s history. When Marc isn’t chasing private equity deals for TPG’s Tech Adjacencies fund, he can be […]

“A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself.” — Oprah Winfrey The intangible power of Pembroke has always resided in it’s uniquely “jolly”, earnest, authentic, multifaceted community. Help Pembroke harness this power and tap back into it yourself by volunteering to become a MENTOR. It’s easy.  All you have to […]

Season’s Greetings We know that some American alumni would like to become a part of the new College History that is being prepared for our 400th Anniversary in 2024. To be listed in the volume as an Early Subscriber, please order your copy here. If you would like to tax-efficiently support the College’s future through […]

Less than one hour ago, President-elect Joe Biden made a historic announcement, declaring that Pembroke’s own Pete Buttigieg ’05 would be joining his administration as Secretary of Transportation.  Congratulations Pete! Biden praised Buttigieg as someone who has the “vision of a next generation leader, with the experience and the temperament to lead change today.” President-elect […]