Master Lynne Brindley has announced she will step down at the end of the 2019-2020 academic year. Lynne has served as Pembroke’s Master since 2013. She is Pembroke’s first female Master in its nearly 400-year history. Prior to coming to Pembroke, Lynne served as Chief Executive of the British Library. Lynne has been a […]

Pete Buttigieg ’05, mayor of South Bend, Indiana, his hometown, is running for president. On January 23, 2019, Pete announced the formation of an exploratory committee, the precursor to a formal declaration. Pete is one of a growing number of Democrats aiming for the 2020 presidential contest. “There’s a new generation of voices emerging in […]

Two new lavishly illustrated Pembroke College history booklets have recently been published affording Pembrokians fascinating insight into how the College came to be what it is today. “A Gentle History of The Master’s Lodgings, Pembroke College, Oxford”, by Tim Brindley and Brian Wilson, traces the history of this singular Pembroke building from its humble beginnings […]

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 […]

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