Materials Science and Metallurgy
We are always pleased to hear from Materials Science and Metallurgy alumni. If you would like to arrange a visit to the Department, or to update your contact details, please let us know. Please contact us using alumni@msm.cam.ac.uk.
The department publishes an annual newsletter called Material Eyes which you should already receive. If this is not the case, please let us know and we will add your name to the circulation list.
We look forward from hearing from you.
We are always pleased to hear from Materials Science and Metallurgy alumni. If you would like to arrange a visit to the Department, or to update your contact details, please let us know. Please contact us using alumni@msm.cam.ac.uk.
The department publishes an annual newsletter called Material Eyes which you should already receive. If this is not the case, please let us know and we will add your name to the circulation list.
We look forward from hearing from you.
The Department has been at the forefront of Materials Science and Metallurgy for over 70 years. This has been achieved by the outstanding quality of the students and the staff over this time and their access to excellent facilities. Current research focuses on some of society’s key challenges, including the creation of the energy-efficient materials and technologies on which our sustainable global future will depend, and improving the design and engineering of medical materials.
In order to maintain its position the Department continues to seek financial support to improve its facilities and endow a Sir Alan Cottrell Professorship in perpetuity. More information on the following funds are available via the menu on the left:
You will also find information on how you can make a bequest to the Department within your will and there is specific information for U.S. Alumni who may wish to make a donation to the Department.
If you prefer to make on-line giving, then the University’s Office for Development and Alumni Relations (CUDAR, formerly CUDO) has made it easier to make donations on-line to the Department of Material Science and Metallurgy, please go to:
We are happy to discuss specific donations or provide more information. For further information, please contact our own Department Alumni Relations using alumni@msm.cam.ac.uk or on (+44) (0)1223 334300.
Our Fundraising Promise
We are registered with the Fundraising Regulator. Please read our Fundraising Promise: https://www.alumni.cam.ac.uk/fundraising-promise
The Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy offers world-leading teaching and cutting-edge research training in materials science to an undergraduate cohort of close to 400 students and a postgraduate cohort of around 150 students.
Attracting the most talented students and ensuring they have access to outstanding academic staff and state-of-the-art facilities is core to the aims and objectives of the Department in addition to providing wide-ranging transferrable skills training and well-being support.
This fund enables the Department to provide support in a range of areas, including:
A donation of any size to this fund will help to support the Department in ensuring our students have the best possible educational and research experience.
Our goal has been to establish in perpetuity a Professorship of Materials Science in memory of Sir Alan Cottrell. This Professorship will be the University’s recognition of the important contributions that Sir Alan made to science, engineering and public policy. The funds raised in this Appeal will assist in establishing the Professorship and in supporting the research of the Cottrell Professor.
In February 2012 we had the very sad news of Sir Alan’s death, aged aged 92. For more details on his life, please read the tribute compiled by some who had the pleasure of working with him. This document was circulated at the Memorial Service for Sir Alan, held in Great St Mary’s church, Cambridge on 9th June 2012.
Documents
A number of fundraising events for this fund were hosted here in the UK and in the U.S.A.
A video includes an introduction by Professor Lindsay Greer and featuring Sir Alan Cottrell, Sir Graeme Davies and Professor Tony Kelly.
For more information contact: alumni@msm.cam.ac.uk
The priority of this Development fund will be to provide support for future teaching and research activity.
The Heycock Development Fund has been named after Charles Heycock who was the first University Reader in Metallurgy.
The Department would like to have your support so that it can improve current infrastructure, provide support for new research and teaching initiatives, provide new materials for the library and have funds that allow gaps in external funding of posts to be bridged. This fund can be supported by either a single or rolling donation.
To donate directly to the Department please go to the online payment portal.
The following includes general information about making a bequest, and is intended to help you and your solicitor should you decide to include the University of Cambridge when you make or update your will.
The Cambridge Foundation, set up by the University to seek philanthropic funding, has charitable status for all UK tax purposes (Inland Revenue reference XN81946), and is exempt under section 505 of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988.
Such bequests should be made to The Cambridge Foundation. All gifts and legacies to the Foundation are free from Inheritance or Capital Gains Taxes under present legislation.
Bequests may be in the form of money, property or other valuables. In the case of money gifts, it is possible to build in some protection against inflation, to ensure that your original intentions will be met. Please find below some sample forms of wording for bequests to Cambridge, which your solicitor may find helpful. These are suggested wordings and should be checked with your solicitor when making or updating your will.
“Subject to the payment of my debts, funeral and testamentary expenses, I give free of tax the whole of my estate not otherwise disposed of by this my will (alternatively, x per cent (x%)) of my residuary estate to the Trustees for the time being of The Cambridge Foundation to support: teaching and research in the University of Cambridge, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy.”
“I give free of tax to the Trustees for the time being of The Cambridge Foundation the sum of £___________ (preferably inflation linked to the Retail Price Index) from the date of this my will to support teaching and research in the University of Cambridge, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy and declare that the receipt of their Treasurer shall be full and sufficient discharge.”
Should you decide to include a legacy to the University of Cambridge in your will, please accept our heartfelt thanks. We would be grateful if you would fill out the form below to tell us of your intentions, and how you wish us to keep in touch with you in the future. The form is in PDF format which you can download and then post back to us.
By filling out this form, you are not entering into any binding commitment, and naturally, any information you give us will be treated with the utmost confidentiality.
To download the form, click here.
US alumni can give tax efficiently through Cambridge in America. The Gift form can be downloaded from the Cambridge In America website. On the form you will need to state that you wish the gift to go towards the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy and a specific fund (if appropriate).
A bench on the patio outside the new common room was commissioned and installed on the 23rd September 2016 in memory of David Duke recognising his central place in department life.
Obituary – Lindsay Greer
Alumni now need to update their details directly with the University Development and Almuni Relations Office (CUDAR). Your data is securely held by the University Development and Alumni Relations Office and will be treated confidentially and with respect for the benefit of the University and its constituent parts. Relevant updates will be be passed on to the Department of Material Science & Metallurgy as appropriate.
The University Development and Alumni Relations Office’s full data protection statement is available at http://www.alumni.cam.ac.uk/data-protection. This statement covers what information is stored and how it is used. The Department complies with this policy, as instructed by the University, in regard to the alumni records stored by our Alumni Relations personnel.
The Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy and the University of Cambridge are always happy to keep in touch with alumni. You can update your alumni record using the Development and Alumni Relations website at https://www.alumni.cam.ac.uk/contact/update-your-details.
If you are not a graduate of the University of Cambridge and would like to receive our newsletter, Material Eyes, you may submit your details to the Department (including sending contact detail updates) via our online form. https://www.msm.cam.ac.uk/news-and-events/material-eyes-newsletter
The storage and processing of personal information is regulated by the GDPR (since 25 May 2018). The CUDAR data protection statement is available at http://www.alumni.cam.ac.uk/data-protection.
The history of the University of Cambridge’s Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy has been documented in the book Light Blue Materials, from small beginnings to international significance. The story is told through accounts of the Department staff, the main areas of effort in the Department, and some individual characters with unique contributions to Department life. Organisation of the text is largely chronological by successive Heads of Department, interspersed with consideration of the specific areas of research and finally looking ahead to the future of the Department. The appendices contain detailed class lists, a research student list and Departmental photographs.
The royalties from every copy sold are to go to a student-assistance fund so as to reflect the collaborative nature of this publication.
Some topics included in the book are: The National Education Background in the Nineteenth Century; The work of Heycock and Neville; Studies in Corrosion and Electrochemistry; Field Ion Microscopy; Electron Microscopy; Functional and Device Materials; Wear; Joining of Materials; Archeometallurgy; Biomedical Materials; the contribution of Assistant Staff.
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(ISBN 1 904350 35 6)
About the authors:
Dr Charles joined the Department of Metallurgy, University of Cambridge in 1960, after 13 years in industry. He retired in 1990 after wide metallurgical experience and is now University Emeritus Reader in Process Metallurgy and visiting Professor at University College, London, but retains a presence in the Cambridge Department as a Distinguished Research Associate. After more than forty five years association he is well placed to review its achievements.
Professor Greer graduated in the Department in 1976, and achieved a personal chair in 2001. He became Head of the Department in 2006 and has close associations with Sidney Sussex College. His study of the early work by Heycock and Neville in the Sidney chemistry laboratory at the end of the nineteenth century provided the foundation on which this history has been written.