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Events & Services

The Common Good Programme
The Rev’d Andrew Hurst – What is Truth?
St John's College Chapel
March 15, 2026 6:30 PM
Music in College
Concert: Williams, Finzi & Harmer
Chapel
March 15, 2026 8:15 PM
Music in College
Chapel Late: combined colleges' orchestra
Chapel
March 16, 2026 7:30 PM
Webinar
Webinars 2026: For England/Wales Y11, Scotland S4, Northern Ireland Y12
Online
March 18, 2026 5:00 PM
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Latest news

Major partnership set to ‘supercharge’ quantum research in the UK

Professor Mete Atatüre, Head of the Cavendish Laboratory and Fellow of St John’s, welcomes new project that will see the UK’s most powerful quantum computer based at the University of Cambridge

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Gloved hand works on an experiment in a laboratory
Failed experiment leads to surprise drug development breakthrough

An unexpected result during a routine control test revealed a new light-powered chemical reaction that could make drug manufacturing more sustainable and give scientists better tools to develop medicines

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Artist’s illustration of the interplay of a vibrational mode in electron-transfer processes
Molecular ‘catapult’ fires electrons at the limits of physics

Cambridge scientists discover vibration-driven charge transfer faster than a single molecular vibration

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A portrait of the Brontë sisters by Patrick Branwell Brontë copyright The National Portrait Gallery, London
The Cambridge chapter before Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights

The patriarch of the Brontë family was a St John’s undergraduate who changed his surname from Brunty to Brontë – a name his three remarkable daughters would later make famous in books that have sold millions of copies worldwide

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