→ March 9, 2016
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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 […]
→ February 26, 2016
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Pembroke College Emeritus Fellow Zbigniew “Zbyszek” Pelczynski OBE celebrated his 90th birthday at a black-tie dinner hosted by Master Lynne Brindley in College on December 4. Pelczynski, Pembroke’s storied politics professor from 1957 to 1992, was tutor to scores of Americans, including former president Bill Clinton. […]
→ 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 […]
→ December 15, 2015
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“Pembroke’s own Stuart Stevens,’72 a true renaissance man of politics, history, haute cuisine, extreme sports and travel, is out with a terrific new book The Last Season: A Father, a Son, and a Lifetime of College Football which is already garnering advance praise. Here’s what our own Walter Isaacson has to say: “Through the lens of college […]
→ August 15, 2015
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Some thirty Pembroke alumni and friends in gathered in San Francisco on July 27, 2015, to welcome three Pembroke Fellows — Prof. Mark Fricker (Plant Science), Prof. Hannah Smithson (Experimental Psychology), and Strategic Development Director Andrew Seton – to learn of their latest research, and to be treated to a briefing on current College achievements […]
→ June 17, 2015
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Pembroke Fellows and fellow scientists Hannah Smithson (Experimental Psychology) and Mark Fricker (Plant Science) will be presenting their work aa Pembroke event in San Francisco on Monday, July 27. Hosted by Peggy Gyulai, partner of Jeremy Sutton ‘79, Hannah and Mark have billed their talk: Medieval Science: Light, Colour and Rainbows and how data is […]
→ May 16, 2015
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A gala dinner at historic Prospect House, the home of Pembroke Foundation Fellow Abdullah Saleh in Georgetown, and a private tour of the Library of Congress highlighted the April 2015 visit of Pembroke’s Master, Dame Lynne Brindley, to Washington, DC. Some 58 Pembrokians and their guests gathered at Prospect House on Friday April 10, a […]
→ March 23, 2015
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Update (November, 2015): Pete Buttigieg was overwhelmingly re-elected to his second term as mayor of South Bend on November 3 with over 80% of the vote. Congratulations, Pete! MAYOR PETE BUTTIGIEG ‘05– FROM SOUTH BEND TO OXFORD AND BACK Pete Buttigieg, PPE’05, and current mayor of South Bend, Indiana, had a rude academic awakening shortly after the Rhodes […]
→ February 4, 2015
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Bradley Peacock ’92 –From Boy In The Bow…To Brand Builder By Anna Lund ‘09 Bradley Peacock ’92 is alarmed at the declining number of American undergraduates studying the humanities. “I believe it is the result of both the increasingly astronomic cost of higher education and risk aversion among employers and graduate school decision-makers,” he told the […]
