Clare Hall, Cambridge

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Clare Hall
University of Cambridge
Arms of Clare Hall
Scarf colours: black, with two equally-spaced narrow stripes of red edged with yellow
Location
ex officio[3]
Websitewww.clarehall.cam.ac.uk
Graduate Student Bodywww.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/graduate-student-body
Boat clubwww.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/clare-hall-boat-club-cam
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Clare Hall is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England. Founded in 1966 by Clare College, Clare Hall is a college for advanced study, admitting only postgraduate students alongside postdoctoral researchers and fellows. It was established to serve as an Institute of Advanced Studies and has slowly grown and developed into a full constituent college.

Clare Hall is one of the smallest colleges with around 250 graduate students, but around 125

formal hall and the tutorial system
.

History

Clare Hall was founded by

visiting fellows
on leave from universities around the world.

After Clare College decided to establish this new centre in January 1964, the initial planning was carried through by a small group of fellows of the college chaired by the Master, Sir Eric Ashby. It was soon agreed that the new centre would be called Clare Hall, the ancient name by which the college itself had been known for more than five hundred years until the mid-19th century. Clare Hall maintains close ties with Clare College, sharing some facilities and annual events.

The Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of Bologna is so far the only institution abroad explicitly modelled upon Clare Hall.[5]

Buildings

The architect Ralph Erskine was appointed to design the buildings for Clare Hall, which were to include common rooms, offices and dining facilities, a house for the President, and twenty apartments for visiting fellows. A neighbouring house, Elmside in Grange Road, provided rooms for the relatively small number of graduate students.

Sir Eric Ashby, then Master of Clare College and Vice-Chancellor of the University, formally opened Clare Hall in September 1969. Brian Pippard, the first President of Clare Hall, had already moved into the President's house with his family; twelve research students were living on the college site in Elmside and a number of visiting fellows with their families were living in the newly built college apartments.

Among the early visiting fellows was

Nobel Prize for Economics
in 2018.

Other facilities in the college grounds include a sports complex with a multi-gym and swimming pool and an adjacent tennis court. It also has a dining room which is used for

Formal Hall
. The university athletics track is a short run from the main college buildings.

Growth

West Court, Clare Hall
(formerly Lord Rothschild's family home)

In 1978 a second neighbouring house, now called Leslie Barnett House, was obtained for graduate student accommodation. This purchase also allowed the Michael Stoker and Brian Pippard Buildings to be built in the college grounds, providing further student rooms.

The Anthony Low Building in the garden of Elmside was completed in 2000, providing further common rooms and the Garden Bar for the graduates on the main college site.

In the summer of 1996, the college purchased a substantial property, formerly the Cambridge family home of

Herschel Road
. It was renamed Clare Hall West Court and, after conversion and some major building works, now provides public rooms, studies, apartments, study bedrooms, a fitness centre and a swimming pool.

Student life

Unlike other colleges in the university, Clare Hall does not have a

Senior Common Room
, and it is a single society for all social functions and in the use of the various college common rooms and other facilities. This encourages interaction between graduate students, distinguished visiting fellows and other senior members, aided also by the wide variety of national backgrounds and research interests of the members.

The interaction between members of Clare Hall is encouraged also by college seminars, lunchtime discussions and formal lecture series. The latter includes the annual series of lectures relating to human values, given by a distinguished international scholar and sponsored by the Tanner Foundation. They also include the annual Ashby lecture, given by a visiting fellow, and the more frequent ASH seminar (arts, social sciences and history) that were initiated by some of the visiting life members.

Other events include art exhibitions, films and small concerts which supplement the wealth of music available in the university.

People associated with the college

Presidents

The President's term of office is fixed at seven years. Previous presidents include

.

Professor C. Alan Short became the ninth President of Clare Hall from 1 August 2020. He is the Professor of Architecture of the University of Cambridge.[6]

Fellows

The late

Lord Ashby
was elected as the first honorary fellow of Clare Hall in 1975, on his retirement from the Mastership of Clare College.

Present honorary fellows include two former visiting fellows,

Republic of Korea and Nobel Peace Prize winner in 2000, and Lee Bollinger, who later became President of the University of Michigan and Columbia University. They also include the retired presidents of the College, together with Ralph Erskine, architect of the early buildings, and Richard Eden
, one of the founding fellows.

Clare Hall has a strong tradition in theoretical physics.

J. David Jackson of the University of California, Berkeley. Other American academics who were past fellows include Andreas Acrivos (fluid dynamics) of Stanford, Leila Ahmed (divinity) of Harvard, David Epel (marine biology) of Stanford
.

Notable alumni and past fellows

See also

References

  1. ^ University of Cambridge (6 March 2019). "Notice by the Editor". Cambridge University Reporter. 149 (Special No 5): 1. Retrieved 20 March 2019.
  2. ^ "Annual report and Financial Statements for the year ended 30 June 2017" (PDF). Clare Hall, Cambridge. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
  3. ^ Clare Hall, Cambridge (October 2016). "Clare Hall Statutes" (PDF). clarehall.cam.ac.uk. Archived (PDF) from the original on 20 October 2022. Retrieved 20 October 2022.
  4. ^ "Clare Hall". Cambridge Colleges.
  5. ^ "The Institute of Advanced Study at University of Bologna". isa.unibo.it. Clare Hall. Archived from the original on 3 November 2014. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
  6. ^ "A New Era". Archived from the original on 27 September 2020. Retrieved 13 August 2020.
  7. ^ a b c d e "Outstanding contributions".
  8. ^ "Nobel Prize in Economics 2018". Retrieved 8 October 2018.
  9. ^ "David Thouless wins Nobel prize in physics". Retrieved 7 October 2016.

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