🏆Announcing the winners of our essay competition🏆
We are thrilled to announce the winners of the annual Bell Burnell Society essay competition, and can't wait for you all to read the winning essays.
1st Place: Hugo Streets - 'Is Technology to Blame for the Accelerated Rate of Global Warming and the Deterioration of our Climate?'
Link to read: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQcyhm9ksDp0b0dP10rk4cXVL-ERL2HJCzoNCLhtOFiun1lfSg_tf12orNk9x8QMQ/pub
2nd Place: Ashwika Rajan - 'Is gene therapy the future of medical advancement?'
Link to read: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRFShgHh9BdL8V13QKBBUmNnOO4YCsR5mR921UyOVG-oLwyD4iWOrSpF6kTOIp5dQy2qSWIEz1E2jrp/pub
3rd Place: Millie Reiss - 'Is gene therapy the future of medical advancement?'
Link to read: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRp1VpmWeH1tOx4uaweH_hNPijgbX2Cv3r__6I3VF9FkCcreV-vK75HtDL3DK7lwA/pub
Congratulations to these three students, and thank you to all that entered - we were really blown away by the both the quantity and quality of the submissions this year.
Feel free to read and share the winning essays with your friends and fellow science enthusiasts! 🤩🎉
Murray Edwards Bell Burnell Society
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This is the page for the MEC Bell Burnell Society, open to those interested in science. Many of our events involve food so they are worth coming along to.
The Franklin Society of Murray Edwards College is open to all those studying science and those who have an interest in this area. We organise science themed events, such as talks, documentary screenings and debates, and social events such as pub meets, parties and formals. We also aim to help natural scientists new to Cambridge to integrate smoothly into college life. Like this page to stay informed with what we are up to!
Attention all tech-savvy wordsmiths! 🚀 Our student-run Bell Burnell Society is calling all sixth form (or equivalent) writers to enter their annual essay competition and share their thoughts on the ever-evolving world of technology. 🌎 So, grab a cup of coffee, fire up your laptops, and get ready to unleash your creativity! ✍️
Enter here: https://www.murrayedwards.cam.ac.uk/news/our-blogs/she-talks-science/bell-burnell-society-essay-competition-2023
Society presidents Chloe and Adele can’t wait to read your submissions!
01/05/2023
Last week, we were delighted to welcome Esther and Sarah Teichmann to Murray Edwards College, for the Conversation Between Sisters event organised by the Women’s Art Collection, in collaboration with the Bell Burnell Society and FemSoc.
We were amazed by their collaborative project Constellations, which combined Sarah’s inspiring and revolutionary work with the Human Cell Atlas, and Esther’s artistic vision.
We are looking forward to collaborate further with College in order to help organise more exciting events!
BBSoc
04/04/2023
We are delighted to welcome the artist Esther Teichmann and scientist Sarah Teichmann in a discussion exploring how they enact sisterhood in their careers and focusing on their interdisciplinary collaboration, Constellations. Constellations is a creative project with an experimental film and online publication informed by the Human Cell Atlas, the global initiative in genomics transforming our understanding of the cells of the human body.
The talk, including a screening of an excerpt of Constellations, will be followed by a drinks reception. The event is organised in collaboration with the at Murray Edwards College.
Book (free) tickets for the event at the link in our bio. See you there! 🧬🎨
13/05/2022
‼️New Committee Elections‼️
It is Easter term and time to finish up this year’s work and hand over! The Franklin Society needs to elect a new President, Treasurer and Secretary; these are very relaxed low commitment roles, where you're free to do as much or as little as you'd like. The perk is that you can choose which speakers you'd like to invite based on what you're interested in. If you would like to be considered for a committee position please can you send your manifesto to [email protected] or to [email protected] by the 20th. Looking forward to another great year of Franklin Soc ahead!
—— 2021-22 Committee, Olivia, Wendy, Nina
P.S. If you are interested and have any questions about what we do, feel free to reach out by email or message us on facebook!
04/04/2022
✍️The Franklin Society Essay competition is open again for 2022! 📚
The Franklin Society is the science society of Murray Edwards College, Cambridge University, and every year we run a science-based essay competition. The competition is open to any Sixth form student (or equivalent), from any country, of any gender. It’s a great opportunity for potential future scientists to read some literature and form their own opinions about an area of science outside of their curriculum. There are of course prizes:
1st - £50
2nd- £30
3rd -£20
Entry to the competition would also look great on university application forms and the top three winners' essays will be published on our page!
Further details can be found in the documents linked on this post including the essay questions and please don't hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions!
Feel free to share this with anyone you think would be interested!

Essay questions:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jEH8wXvDIOG010vju5cApg9lorS2ue3W/view?usp=sharing
Terms & conditions:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/15hC_mFBhnLRLYc1Umrnm5Jc_V8Z40LRh/view?usp=sharing
22/01/2022
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23/11/2021
Thank you to everyone who came to the talk today! We hope you enjoyed it (and the mince pies!)👏👏
And a massive thank you to David for his inspirational research, career AND life story 😯💐Such a legend
‼️A reminder for our Intercollegiate Pub Crawl this Friday! See you there🍻
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