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  Clare Hall, Cambridge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Clare Hall is a College for Advanced Study in the University of Cambridge.
Unlike other colleges in the university, Clare Hall does not have a high table at meals or 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.
Joseph Brodsky, a visiting fellow and poet in residence at Clare Hall in 1977, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1987.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Clare_Hall   (750 words)

  
 Clare Hall - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
Clare Hall, graduate college of the University of Cambridge, England.
Clare (county), county in the west of the province of Munster, Republic of Ireland, bounded by Galway to the north, Tipperary to the east, Limerick...
Clare (family), family of English nobles prominent in the 12th and 13th centuries.
au.encarta.msn.com /Clare_Hall.html   (115 words)

  
 Clare College: About Clare (History)
Debate in Cambridge was as fierce as anywhere, and from the debate emerged one of the principal leaders of the English Reformation, and one of Clare’s greatest alumni, namely Hugh Latimer (1485-1555), who was elected as a Fellow of Clare in 1510, while still an undergraduate.
Clare in the eighteenth century is similarly marked by the careers of a number of remarkable men.
A few years later, in 1972, Clare was one of three Cambridge colleges to admit undergraduate women, a change which had a dramatic effect on the nature of the society, particularly in the immediately enhanced academic standing of the college in examination results.
www.clare.cam.ac.uk /about/history.html   (1570 words)

  
 Clare Hall University of Cambridge   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Clare Hall has an enviable range of sporting facilities, including an indoor heated swimming pool at West Court.
Rowing for Clare Hall is usually regarded as an inauspicious start to any rowing career since, to all serious rowing colleges, the Clare Hall boat is a piece of flotsam on the river.
However, the informality of Clare Hall Boat Club, and its desperation for new members, meant that it was ready to recruit an elderly novice like me, and, reader, I signed up.
curbar.clarehall.cam.ac.uk /sports   (896 words)

  
 Clare College, Cambridge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Clare's 'Old Court', which frames King's College Chapel as the left border of one of the most celebrated architectural vistas in England, was built between 1638 and 1715, with a long interruption for the English Civil War.
Clare's student paper, Clareification, published by the Union of Clare Students won "Best University College Paper" in "The Cambridge Student" in 2005 and is filled with satirical articles mocking Cambridge traditions, reports on silly student antics, and college gossip in the infamous "Clareifornication" column.
Hector Munro Chadwick, philologist and historian, Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Cambridge 1912-1941
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Clare_College,_Cambridge   (1215 words)

  
 Graduate Studies Prospectus: Clare Hall
Clare Hall is a graduate College, whose foundation by Clare College in 1966 was inspired by the concept of a centre for advanced study that would bring together research scholars of different nationalities and academic disciplines, from graduate students to senior professors.
It is set in quiet attractive surroundings in West Cambridge, and the buildings, designed by Ralph Erskine, reflect Clare Hall's informality and openness.
Clare Hall has its own tennis court, swimming pool, boat (a racing eight), a new punt and multi-gym.
www.admin.cam.ac.uk /univ/gsprospectus/colleges/clarehall.html   (425 words)

  
 Clare UK - History of Clare - The Small Town of Clare
In the Middle Ages the Clare lords were among the leading nobles in the realm.
In the fourteenth century Elizabeth de Burgh, Lady of Clare, refounded Clare Hall, later Care College, in Cambridge.
Her successor received the title of Duke of Clarence, a title since renewed at rare intervals; and the name of the Clarenceux Herald is said to have been derived from Clare.
www.clare-uk.com /about/short_history/small.html   (118 words)

  
 30 January 2006: African Scientist Visiting Fellowship established at Clare Hall, Cambridge   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The Schlumberger Foundation African Scientist Visiting Fellowship at Clare Hall is open to African nationals based at African universities and in the early stages of their academic career.
The President of Clare Hall, Professor Ekhard Salje, said: “Clare Hall has for 40 years welcomed visiting fellows from over 48 nations, working in all aspects of academic life in Cambridge.
Clare Hall is a College for advanced study (postgraduate level and above) in the University of Cambridge and welcomes graduate students and senior scholarly visitors from all over the world.
www.admin.cam.ac.uk /news/press/dpp/2006013001   (431 words)

  
 Microsoft Research Fellowship, Clare Hall, Cambridge   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The Governing Body of Clare Hall Cambridge, and Microsoft Research Limited jointly invite applications for a stipendiary Research Fellowship supporting research in the field of adaptive computing (including pattern recognition, probabilistic inference and computer vision).
The Fellow will be a member of the Governing Body of Clare Hall and will be subject to the Statutes and Ordinances of the College which may be seen on request to the Bursar.
The Statutes include the obligation to reside in or near Cambridge for at least two-thirds of each University term, but the Governing Body will normally excuse absences made necessary by the nature of the research undertaken.
research.microsoft.com /~ablake/notices/JRF.htm   (263 words)

  
 Oxford University Gazette: Appointments, 4 October 2001
The governing body of Clare Hall proposes to elect one or more non-stipendiary Research Fellows in the Sciences for a period of three years starting mainly from October 2002.
The governing body of Clare Hall proposes to elect one stipendiary Research Fellow and one or more non-stipendiary Research Fellows in the Arts and Social Sciences for a period of three years starting mainly from October 2002.
Candidates will be asked on their applications to state whether, in the event of their not being elected to the stipendiary fellowship, they would be willing to accept a non-stipendiary fellowship; before elections for such a fellowship, candidates would need to demonstrate to the committee that they will have financial support from other sources.
www.ox.ac.uk /gazette/2001-2/weekly/041001/appts/entry_7.htm   (497 words)

  
 Hughes Hall, Cambridge   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Hughes Hall is the oldest of the six Graduate Colleges in Cambridge - Hughes Hall, Clare Hall, Darwin, Lucy Cavendish, St. Edmunds, and Wolfson - and provides an academic environment specifically designed for the requirements of graduate, affiliated and mature students.
Postgraduates are normally resident in Cambridge for more of the year than undergraduates and generally require a more mature society than may be offered in an undergraduate college.
Hughes Hall has developed a unique system to ensure that its members are able to take full advantage of their time in Cambridge by helping them to settle quickly and easily into the College, no matter what their background.
www.hughes.cam.ac.uk /admissions/gradcollege.html   (398 words)

  
 The Child Writer from Austen to Woolf - Cambridge University Press
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She is co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen, and author of Reading the Body in the Eighteenth-Century Novel, Jane Austen the Novelist, Thackeray’s Major Novels, Trollope’s Palliser Novels, and Dickens the Designer, and of numerous essays on other novelists, including Defoe, Richardson, Sterne, Burney, Emily Brontë, and George Eliot.
This collection owes much to the collaboration of an international group of scholars who are keen to share their special interest in childhood writings with others, and to extend work on this largely neglected category of literature.
www.cambridge.org /catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521812933&ss=fro   (2049 words)

  
 Clare Hall to celebrate its German connections   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The former President of Saxony, Kurt Biedenkopf, is to appear as the keynote speaker during a week of German-themed celebrations at Clare Hall Cambridge.
Professor Ekhard Salje, president of Clare Hall said: 'Germany provides the second largest contingency of Visiting Fellows and graduate students at Clare Hall after the US.
It is not surprising, therefore, that discussions on the impact of the German unification on the political landscape of Europe, German culture and history, and academic collaboration between Cambridge and Germany often take place in college.
www.cambridgenetwork.co.uk /pooled/articles/BF_NEWSART/view.asp?Q=BF_NEWSART_217829   (544 words)

  
 ArchitectureWeek - News - Two International Masters - 2005.0427
Yet even in the crisp 243 and 163 meter towers of his 1991 Tokyo City Hall, sophisticated regionalist expression is evident.
In 1967, he designed several buildings for Clare Hall, the Cambridge postgraduate college; in the 1960s, the much admired Byker Housing Development near Newcastle upon Tyne; in 1990 The Ark in Hammersmith, London; and in 1998, Greenwich Millennium Village in southeast London.
Clare Hall, Cambridge, United Kingdom, designed by Ralph Erskine.
www.architectureweek.com /2005/0427/news_2-2.html   (649 words)

  
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** A friend of Oxford or Cambridge is a former student, faculty member, visitor, donor or other friend of the university.
If there are two Oxford or Cambridge friends in a family, each may bring one guest.
www.oxcam.org /SignUp.htm   (257 words)

  
 Poetry Landmarks - Individual Landmark   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Poet Laureate William Whitehead was probably most associated with Clare Hall, Cambridge in terms of both a landmark and an institution.
He first arrived at Clares in 1735 as a sizar, and went on to become a fellow in 1742.
It was also during his time at Cambridge that he published the epistle "On the Danger of Writing Verse 1".
www.poetrysociety.org.uk /landmark/display.php?id=227   (92 words)

  
 New Hall, Cambridge » Raphael Lyne
From 1996-1998 he was a Lumley Research Fellow at Magdalene College, Cambridge, and then, in October 1998, he became a College Lecturer at New Hall, Cambridge, before becoming a University Lecturer, still based at New Hall, in 2002.
He was a founder of the Cambridge English Renaissance Electronic Service, and is also one of the general editors of Studies in Renaissance Literature, a series of books published by Boydell and Brewer.
Raphael Lyne lives in Cambridge with his wife Clare, his son Thomas (the driver of the car in the picture), and his daughter Sophie.
www.newhall.cam.ac.uk /people/lyne   (669 words)

  
 Korean President to receive Cambridge degree   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
He has devoted the major part of his life to fighting for the establishment of democracy in Korea - and has survived kidnap, imprisonment and court martial.
In 1993 the president spent a year at Clare Hall, Cambridge, planning how to return to politics and the best way to unify his country.
Cambridge Network keeps you informed of all the latest news from Cambridge and beyond.
www.cambridgenetwork.co.uk /pooled/articles/BF_NEWSART/view.asp?Q=BF_NEWSART_17026   (177 words)

  
 Clare Hall, Cambridge   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
square between the market and the old city hall.
Clare Hall is a college of the University of Cambridge.
It is the smallest of the graduate colleges at Cambridge.
publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/c/cl/clare_hall__cambridge.html   (56 words)

  
 Visiting Fellows   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Clare Hall has an enviable reputation as a centre of excellence for advanced study, with a culturally cosmopolitan feel and a warm, welcoming approach to family life.
Clare Hall brings together research scholars of different nationalities and academic disciplines, from graduate students studying for a higher degree to senior professors.
Further information about life at Clare Hall in Cambridge can be obtained by downloading the Clare Hall General Information Booklet.
www.srcf.ucam.org /clarehall/index.php?id=72   (196 words)

  
 Reporter 14/2/01: Clare Hall   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Dr Trudi Tate, Ph.D. The Governing Body of Clare Hall, Cambridge and Microsoft Research Limited jointly invite applications for a stipendiary Research Fellowship supporting research in the field of adaptive computing (including pattern recognition, probabilistic inference, and computer vision).
Eligibility: men and women graduates of any university are eligible to apply, irrespective of age, provided they have a doctorate or an equivalent qualification, or expect to have submitted their thesis before taking up the Fellowship.
The Fellow will be a member of the Governing Body of Clare Hall and will be subject to the Statutes and Ordinances of the College.
www.admin.cam.ac.uk /reporter/2000-01/weekly/5837/22.html   (247 words)

  
 Cambridge Art - Paintings Drawings and Prints of Clare Hall, Cambridge University, England
Cambridge Art - Paintings Drawings and Prints of Clare Hall, Cambridge University, England
A pastel painting of Clare Hall, Cambridge University, from a collection of 114 prints of Cambridge, England.
Views of Cambridge landscapes, architecture, cityscapes, street scenes, buildings, colleges, the river Cam and Cambridge bridges
www.cambridgeart.com /paintings/p/clarehall.html   (145 words)

  
 Sir Halley Stewart Trust - Origin And Management   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Professor Wilcock's research programme in Bristol spans the spectrum from molecular genetics in the laboratory to the patient and carer, and he also has collaborative research in the UK and overseas.
Mrs Joanna Womack qualified as a Solicitor in 1972 and worked in the City of London before moving to Cambridge to teach Law at New Hall, University of Cambridge.
She retired as Treasurer of the University of Cambridge in September 2003 and is currently the Bursar of Clare Hall, Cambridge.
www.sirhalleystewart.org /origin.html   (872 words)

  
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Joseph Runzo is Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Chapman University, California; Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University; and Founding Executive Director of the Global Ethics and Religion Forum, an international NGO and federal non-profit educational organization.
He received his BA from the University of California, Irvine; his MA and Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Michigan; his MTS in theological studies from Harvard University, and studied South Asian Religion and culture as an NEH Fellow at the East-West Center of the University of Hawaii.
He currently serves on the Program Committee as section head for "Religions and Human Rights" and "Religion and War" for the Global Congress "The World's Religions after September 11" to be held in Montreal, Canada, September 11-15, 2006.
www.gerforum.org /runzo/bio.html   (357 words)

  
 Allan Gotthelf - Department of History and Philosophy of Science   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
A specialist on Aristotle's biology and philosophy, and on the philosophy of Ayn Rand, Gotthelf is emeritus professor of philosophy at The College of New Jersey, and has taught on a visiting basis at Swarthmore, Oxford, Georgetown, Tokyo Metropolitan, and the University of Texas at Austin.
He is a life member of Clare Hall Cambridge, and was a visiting member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.
Gotthelf is author of On Ayn Rand (Wadsworth Philosophers Series, 2000); co-editor of Philosophical Issues in Aristotle's Biology (Cambridge 1987); editor of Aristotle on Nature and Living Things (Pittsburgh 1985); and has prepared for publication D.M. Balme's posthumous editions of Aristotle's Historia Animalium (Cambridge 2002, Cambridge MA 1991).
www.pitt.edu /~hpsdept/people/fac_pages/gotthelf.html   (2905 words)

  
 Global Ethics and Religion Forum--Calendar--War and Reconciliation
Clare Hall, UK John Vattanky, S., Professor of Philosophy, De Nobili College, INDIA, and Life Member, Clare Hall, Cambridge University, UK Chair
Faculty of Divinity, and Fellow, Clare Hall, Cambridge University, UK “Narrowness of View Hardens the Heart:
University, USA and Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall, UK All sessions of this conference are free and open to the public.
www.gerforum.org /calendar/cambridge.html   (776 words)

  
 Oxford University Gazette: Appointments, 16 December 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The governing body of Clare Hall proposes to elect a stipendiary Visiting Fellow in Comparative Religion for a period of one year from 1 October 2005 or an agreed date thereafter.
There are no restrictions on age, sex, or previous standing for this fellowship, except that those who have previously held college visiting fellowships or research fellowships in Oxford or Cambridge are not eligible.
The Trust aims to promote a better understanding between the great cultures of the world by encouraging the study of the religious principles on which they are based.
www.ox.ac.uk /gazette/2004-5/weekly/161204/appts/entry_10.htm   (322 words)

  
 Clare Hall To Celebrate Its German Connections   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Professor Biedenkopf will give two lectures in a programme highlighting the links between Germany and the postgraduate college, which has a reputation for international diversity.
Coinciding with this year’s lectures, Clare Hall is in the midst of marking its 40th anniversary with a series of internationally-themed programmes.
“I am delighted that leading German personalities from politics, media, research councils and over twenty scientists are coming to Cambridge to celebrate the close connection between Clare Hall and Germany.”
www.admin.cam.ac.uk /news/dp/2006100401   (494 words)

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