A Fellow of St Catharine’s immerses us in the economic, cultural and social centrality of textiles to the life and works of William Shakespeare and life in early modern England more generally in her new book.

St Catharine’s supports its own exchange programmes with partner institutions to broaden the learning opportunities offered to the College’s students. These opportunities are on top of the programmes established by the University of Cambridge and the year abroad included in the Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos and the Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Tripos.

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St Catharine's College is collaborating with Brasenose College (University of Oxford) to deliver a series of free webinars in 2025 for students thinking of applying to the Universities of Oxford or Cambridge in 2026. Outreach staff will be delivering sessions with Oxbridge academics and students to:

The following highlights from various sports clubs and teams were compiled from recent reports. If any captains or team members have a result that you'd like to feature in the next round-up, please co...

A St Catharine’s postgraduate student has been alternating biology and baseball during his four years at Cambridge. Henry Slesser (a Molecular Ecology PhD student) was interested in both marine biology and baseball when he joined St Catharine’s as a PhD student in 2022. He has since been involved in important research with humpback whales and an impressive series of wins with the Cambridge University Baseball Squad.

Mary E Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi win for work on preventing immune system harming body

The scientific community has been getting into a lather after a Fellow at St Catharine’s and his laboratory team revealed that a well-known washing-up liquid was an important ingredient in their scien...