→ September 6, 2016
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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 […]
→ July 5, 2016
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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
→ April 10, 2016
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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 […]
→ February 25, 2016
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The national celebrity profile of South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg,’05 (subject of a North American Pembrokian profile last year), keeps increasing. Fresh off an overwhelming re-election victory in November, Pete is, according to New York magazine, one of 10 young leaders cited by the magazine as the future of the Democratic Party, and possibly […]
→ January 8, 2015
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Pembroke’s Tim Griffin ’90 was overwhelmingly elected Arkansas’ Lieutenant Governor on November 4. Tim defeated Democrat John Burkhalter and Libertarian Chris Olson. Tim, a two term congressman, succeeded former Arkansas Lt. Gov. Mark Darr, who resigned last year amid an ethics investigation. Tim is keeping up something of a Pembroke tradition – Win Rockefeller ’69, […]
Senator Richard G. Lugar Speech to the Fulbright Association on the occasion of the acceptance of the Fulbright Prize for International Understanding The George Washington University Jack Morton Auditorium November 10, 2016 ***** I am deeply honored to receive the Fulbright Prize for International Understanding. I thank the Fulbright Association and the […]
→ October 24, 2014
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Our own prolific – and prodigious – Walter Isaacson ’74 is out with a great new book. The Innovators, something of a sequel to his best-selling biography of Steve Jobs, is the fascinating story of the people who created the computer and the Internet, or as Walter puts it in his subtitle, “how a group […]
→ June 1, 2014
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Michelle Peluso ’93 has been named to the Board of Directors of NIKE, Inc., the Beaverton, Oregon-based designer and distributor of athletic footwear, apparel, and accessories. “Michelle’s leadership experience in marketing, branding, innovation and digital media for global brands makes her an outstanding addition to our board,” said Philip Knight, NIKE co-founder and chairman, in […]
→ May 22, 2014
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Tim Griffin (’90) won the Republican nomination for Arkansas Lt. Governor on May 20, decisively defeating two primary opponents. Tim will face former Arkansas state highway commissioner John Burkhalter, who won the Democratic nomination unopposed, in November’s general election. For more, please see the following link connects you to Tim’s post-election interview on Arkansas’ WTHV TV. http://www.thv11.com/story/news/local/2014/05/20/arkansas-gop-picks-griffin-for-lieutenant-governor/9355965/ […]
→ May 3, 2014
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Dame Lynne Brindley, Pembroke’s Master, was welcomed on her first US visit as Pembroke’s Master by several dozen North American Pembrokians at a New York reception during the Oxford University North American weekend on April 12. The affair was hosted by Chris Rokos ’89 at his beautiful SoHo apartment on a warm, early spring Saturday […]
