Darwin College, Cambridge

Darwin College
Darwin College
University of Cambridge
	Darwin College's buildings from the River Cam
	Arms: Argent, on a bend gules cottised vert between two mullets each within an annulet gules three escallops or (for Darwin) impaling Per fess dancetty azure and gules, a caduceus between in chief two roses Or (for Rayne); all within a bordure Or.
Location	Silver Street
Coordinates	52°12′02″N 0°06′49″E / 52.2006°N 0.1137°E
Abbreviation	DAR
Founders	Gonville & Caius College; St John's College; Trinity College;
Established	1964
Named after	The Darwin Family
Sister college	Wolfson College, Oxford
Master	Mike Rands
Undergraduates	None
Postgraduates	750 (2022-23)
Endowment	£24.9m (2023)
Visitor	Lords Chief Justices of England and Wales ex officio
Website	www.darwin.cam.ac.uk
Student association	www.dcsa.darwin.cam.ac.uk
Boat club	www.darwin.cam.ac.uk/dcbc/
Map
	Location in Central Cambridge Location in Cambridge

Darwin College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded on 28 July 1964, Darwin was Cambridge University's first graduate-only college, and also the first to admit both men and women. The college is named after the family of Charles Darwin who previously owned some of the land, Newnham Grange, on which the college now stands.

The college has between 650 and 800 students, mostly studying for PhD or MPhil degrees with strengths in the sciences, humanities, and law. Darwin is the largest graduate college of Cambridge. Darwin's sister college at Oxford University is Wolfson College.

Members of Darwin College are termed Darwinians and alumni include British primatologist and anthropologist Jane Goodall,^[4]^[5] American conservationist Dian Fossey, Barbadian Governor-General Elliott Belgrave, Nobel Prize winner Elizabeth Blackburn, Nobel Prize winner Eric Maskin, Solicitor-General of the United States Paul Clement, Global Energy Prize winning scientist Thorsteinn I. Sigfusson, and Pulitzer Prize nominated neurosurgeon Paul Kalanithi.

^ "Notice by the Editor". Cambridge University Reporter. 149 (Special No 5). University of Cambridge: 1. 6 March 2019. Retrieved 20 March 2019.
^ "Annual Report 2022/2023" (PDF). Darwin College, Cambridge. 2023. Retrieved 12 December 2024.
^ Cite error: The named reference darwin-cam-statutes was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ "Honorary Fellows – Newnham College".
^ "Goodall, Dame (Valerie) Jane, (Born 3 April 1934), Scientific Director, Gombe Wildlife Research Institute, Tanzania, since 1967". Who's Who. 2007. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U17468. ISBN 978-0-19-954088-4.

[1] "Notice by the Editor". Cambridge University Reporter. 149 (Special No 5). University of Cambridge: 1. 6 March 2019. Retrieved 20 March 2019.

[2] "Annual Report 2022/2023" (PDF). Darwin College, Cambridge. 2023. Retrieved 12 December 2024.

[darwin-cam-statutes-3] Cite error: The named reference darwin-cam-statutes was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[4] "Honorary Fellows – Newnham College".

[5] "Goodall, Dame (Valerie) Jane, (Born 3 April 1934), Scientific Director, Gombe Wildlife Research Institute, Tanzania, since 1967". Who's Who. 2007. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U17468. ISBN 978-0-19-954088-4.

[1]

[2]

[3]

[4]

[5]