The Johnian Blog

Alumni crews from St John’s enjoyed a nostalgic day rowing together again for the Head of the Cam event followed by a barbecue at the Lady Margaret Boat Club.

A celebrated a palaeoanthropologist and former Fellow of St John’s College, Louis Leakey (1922), is being recognised with a blue plaque on his previous home near Cambridge.

Lament & Liberation features multiple commissions for the Choir conceived with the distinctive environment of St John’s Chapel and organ in mind.

Novelist Jean Hanff Korelitz was the College’s Harper-Wood Creative Writing and Travel Award holder in 1985. Since then, she has written nine novels including You Should Have Known, which was turned into the HBO series The Undoing, as well as bestselling literary thrillers The Plot and The Sequel.

The Beaufort Society’s Spring Meeting took place at the Francis Crick Institute Thursday 20 March.

Professor Victoria Avery has co-curated an exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge titled:  'Rise Up: Resistance, Revolution, Abolition'.

A climate intervention that could temporarily hold back global warming by reflecting sunlight back into space is the subject of a St John’s PhD student’s research. 

A play written in the 1950s by Johnian scientist Wallace Harper has received its premiere at St John's after his granddaughter, Karen (pictured), contacted the Lady Margaret Players.

Professor Jean Abraham directs the Precision Breast Cancer Institute which will become part of the new Cambridge Cancer Hospital. She has been a Fellow at St John’s since 2018.

Earlier this month, an insightful virtual talk featuring Johnian and Fellow Professor Graeme Barker (1965) explored the latest discoveries from the Shanidar Cave Project.