With researchers and colleagues from the University’s Department of Engineering Science and Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, Suchandrima Das (right), Career Development Fellow in Engineering at Jesus, is a step closer to finding new radiation-resistant materials for the production of fusion power. With the potential to revolutionise the energy sector these advances in nuclear fusion reactor design bring this near-limitless energy source closer to becoming  a clean and sustainable power source. Read more here.

Ben Guy, Teaching Associate in Anglo-Saxon History and Junior Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge, and Angela Muir, Lecturer in British Social and Cultural History at the University of Leicester, are the joint winners of the Francis Jones Prize 2020, endowed in 2017 by Sir David Lewis, Honorary Fellow of Jesus College, to celebrate Welsh historical literature. 

A new access collaboration between Jesus College and alumna Clare Williams (2005, English, right) aims to widen participation to under-represented and disadvantaged young people in south London. The Masterclass pilot programme invites academically talented Year 8 school students from ethnic minority backgrounds in three London schools to participate in a series of masterclasses that will equip them with skills to pursue higher education. Read more here.

Emeritus Fellow Colin Clarke and his wife, Gillian, (left) have co-edited The Handkerchief Tree, a journal kept by Frederick Grice, Gillian's father and a historical fiction and award-winning children's author. More information is available on their website: clarkeauthors.co.uk.