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St John’s College, Cambridge

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Events & Services

Music in College
SJCMS - Schubert's Second Piano Trio
The Lightfoot Room, Old Divinity School
November 13, 2025 1:15 PM
The Common Good Programme
Sunday Sermon Series - The Rev’d Dr Matthew Bullimore
St John's College Chapel
November 16, 2025 6:30 PM
Talk
Mark O'Connell in conversation with Rory Carroll
Lightfoot Room, Old Divinity School
November 18, 2025 5:00 PM
Open Days & Residentials
Key Stage 4 Visit Day 2025
St John's College
November 19, 2025 10:30 AM
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Latest news

Image of a scientist's hands pouring cowpea - Vigna unguiculata - from one hand into the other at Cambridge Crop Science Centre
Turning cutting-edge research into real-world impact at COP30

World leaders at the annual UN climate crisis meeting learn how Cambridge researchers, led by a St John’s academic, empower farmers to innovate

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Rowan Saltmarsh sits on the tyre of a Formula One racing car
‘Living the dream’ as an F1 engineer

Meet St John’s College graduate Rowan Saltmarsh who is fulfilling a lifelong ambition to forge a career in Formula One

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A portrait of Professor Paul Dirac
The century that changed physics – 100 years of quantum mechanics

Since Paul Dirac, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist from St John’s, first co-founded quantum mechanics, there has been a century of scientific discovery

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An image of a student standing in the Combination room
Exceptional students admitted as Scholars of St John’s at historic candlelit ceremony

Part of a 500-year tradition, the new cohort signed the Scholars’ Book alongside historic names such as the poet William Wordsworth and former Prime Minister of India, Manmohan Singh.

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