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The College is saddened to report the news of the passing of Honorary Fellow and former Lecturer, Professor Sir Hans Kornberg.

Hans was Sir William Dunn Professor of Biochemistry in the University of Cambridge from 1975 to 1995 and Master of Christ’s College from 1982 to 1995, when he left the Cambridge chair to take up a position as a Professor of Biology at Boston University. Hans’ major research area was the nature and regulation of carbohydrate transport in micro-organisms, primarily E. coli.

Thanks to generous alumni support for our outreach and access activities, the College has just launched a new university preparation programme for 16-18 year olds thinking about studying Humanities subjects at university and currently at schools and colleges in the North West, Yorkshire and Humber. The programme will challenge young people to think through some of modernity’s biggest questions, by looking back to the ancient world, and is a collaboration between Worcester College, Corpus Christi College, and the Faculty of Classics.

The critically acclaimed screenplay writer, Russell T Davies OBE (English, 1981), was the special guest for the final Provost's ‘In Conversation’ at the Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre on 23 May. Russell talked about his career and works, including the 2005 revival of the science fiction series Doctor Who, and Years and Years, his dystopian drama which reaches its finale on BBC One this Tuesday.