All postgraduate students at Queen’s become members of the Middle Common Room (MCR).
The MCR is a diverse and welcoming community of scholars. The MCR committee organises a variety of social and cultural events, as well as providing general support to our graduates.
The MCR is also a physical space in College located in the Front Quad. It has sofas, kitchen facilities, and provides a convivial setting to socialise with other graduate students.
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Professor Carrillo named Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
How a conversation at Queen’s led to a breakthrough discovery
Medical student wins British Pharmacological Society Clinical Undergraduate Prize
Mathematics student wins two University prizes
What’s for lunch?
- A delicious selection of soup, sandwiches,
pasta with sauce,
jacket potatoes with a variety of fillings,
and locally sourced seasonal vegetables
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Lamb Rogan Josh, Sag Gobi, Rice, Naan Bread
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Chocolate, Clementine and Ginger Sponge
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Tempeh Rogan Josh, Sag Gobi, Rice, Naan Bread
Fellow in Physics Dr Kirsty Duffy leads breakthrough in decades-long neutrino mystery
We are delighted to share that Dr Duffy has played a key role in a breakthrough that rules out the existence of a long-hypothesised fourth #neutrino. Published this week in 'Nature', the findings narrow the search for new physics and represent a huge step forward.
As senior Physics Coordinator of the international #MicroBooNE collaboration, she played a leading role in the research which shows no evidence for a fourth neutrino at a 95% confidence level.
🎥 Watch Dr Duffy explain what this means and why it matters: ow.ly/uSnT50XBTU9
🔗 Full story & links to the paper and our interview: ow.ly/G2mJ50XBTUa
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📚 What can a vanished First Folio tell us about early modern libraries?
Quite a lot, as it turns out.
Queen’s was pleased to be represented at ‘Built with Books: Shaping the Shelves of the Early Modern Library’, part of an AHRC-funded symposium held at UCL this autumn.
✨ In her keynote, Fellow in English Prof Tamara Atkin challenged the long-repeated story that Shakespeare's First Folio was simply “thrown out” when a newer edition arrived.
✨ College Librarian Matt Shaw explored how our own Library’s design and book collections reveal a College eager to project a modern, international identity.
🔗 Full story on the blog: ow.ly/CoVJ50XBiW0
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Hear the Provost Paul Johnson's thoughts on this week’s budget: m.youtube.com/watch?v=NS-xVCmHGN8 (Interview at 9:45 mins).
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At Queen’s, world-changing research sometimes begins in the most everyday places, including over lunch in the Senior Common Room.
A conversation between neuroscientist Dr David Menassa and applied mathematician Prof José Carrillo uncovered an unexpected overlap in their work on microglial development, the brain’s immune cells. That serendipitous moment sparked an international collaboration and has now revealed a fundamental “switch” in early brain development.
The team’s work shows how bringing different disciplines into the same room (literally) accelerates discovery. Mathematical modelling predicted a key developmental transition before it had ever been observed; new experiments confirmed it. Together, the researchers uncovered an early window of vulnerability that could shape our understanding of neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disease.
This is Queen’s at its best: a collegiate environment where ideas cross tables, disciplines, and borders and where curiosity leads to real breakthroughs.
🔗 Read the full story and access the paper online: ow.ly/uQVJ50XyAoE
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