Murray Edwards College, Cambridge is a women's college in Cambridge University. When the college was founded, there was no donor, so it was not named after the donor like other colleges. It was originally called Xintang.
In June, 2008, alumnus Ross Edwards and her husband Steve Edwards donated 30 million pounds to the college and became the donors of the college. In memory of Ruth Marie Murray, the first dean of the college, and Edwards, the donor, the college decided to change its name to Murray Edwards College.
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1962, Darwin's descendants donated the ancestral apple orchard to the new school, so they had a piece of land to build the house needed by the college. The new site is located in Huntington Road, Kasubo, about a mile north of downtown Cambridge. Chamberlain, Powell and Ben, who are famous for Babikenwood Village in London, were chosen to go to courtyard design. The new school building broke ground in 1964 and was completed in 1965. It can accommodate 300 students after completion.
1967, Jocelyn Bell Burnell, a doctoral student of New College, discovered the first pulsar in astronomy with a radio telescope in Cavendish laboratory. This discovery won bernal's doctoral supervisor the Nobel Prize in physics, and made bernal a visiting professor of astrophysics at Oxford University.
1975, Dame Rosemary Murray, the first dean of the college, became the first female president of Cambridge University. Two successive deans, Dr. Anne Lunsday and Dr. Jennifer Barnes, also became vice-presidents of Cambridge University.
From 65438 to 0970 to 1980s, most Cambridge universities, which originally only enrolled boys, began to enroll girls. Since 2007, St Hilda College, the last women's college in Oxford University, has officially accepted male students and teachers. As a result, Cambridge University has become the only university in Britain to retain women's colleges, including Murray Edwards College, Newham College and Lucy cavendish College.