Wolfson College, Cambridge
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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 | |||||||||||||||
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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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[edit] List of Presidents of Wolfson College
- Dr Gordon Johnson 1994-
- John Tusa 1993 (January-October)
- Sir David Williams, QC 1980-1992
- Professor John Morrison 1966-80
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[edit] Notable alumni
| Name | Birth | Death | Career |
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| 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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