Wolfson College, Cambridge

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Wolfson College

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College name Wolfson College
Motto Ring True
Named after The Wolfson Foundation
Established 1965
Previously named University College (1965-1972)
Location Barton Road
Admittance Men and women (aged 21 or over)
President Dr Gordon Johnson
Undergraduates 110
Graduates 650
Official website
Boat Club website

Wolfson College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge. Wolfson College was founded in 1965 as the “University College”, but changed its name to Wolfson College in 1972 in recognition of the generous benefaction of the Wolfson Foundation.

Wolfson is one of small number of elite Colleges established for graduate students with a focus on research and scholarship. About one in 10 students are exceptional undergraudates specially admitted by the University to study at a graduate College.

Wolfson College promotes intellectual exchange between students and Fellows by having a Formal Hall, where there is no high table and fellows and students, while wearing gowns, dine together.

Wolfson College Boat Club (http://www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk/boatclub/) is the strongest graduate rowing college in Cambridge.

The Wolfson Library is open 24 hours per day and the College itself is a short walk form the University Library.

The current president of Wolfson College is Gordon Johnson.

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The Wolfson College library
The Wolfson College library
The Chinese-style Lee Hall
The Chinese-style Lee Hall

[edit] Notable alumni

Name Birth Death Career
Matthew Fisher 1946 Musician (Procol Harum), Producer (Robin Trower), Composer (A Whiter Shade of Pale)
Susan Kiefel 1954 Judge of the High Court of Australia
Shahid Aziz Siddiqi 1945 Former Federal Secretary, Government of Pakistan, Vice Chancellor Ziauddin Medical University
Tharman Shanmugaratnam 1958 Finance Minister of Singapore
Sabiha Sumar 1961 Pakistani film-maker

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