Darwin is a supportive, informal community in which graduate students, researchers and Fellows meet together academically and socially, so as to enrich and enlarge their scholarship and personal experiences, and to form lifelong connections and friendships. Unusually in Cambridge, Darwin has no undergraduate students: our College is informal and inter-disciplinary. Founded in 1964 in Newnham Grange, the family home of Charles Darwin's son and grandson, we were the University of Cambridge’s first graduate-only College and the first College to admit both men and women. Today we are one of the larger Colleges. Darwin College is a very special community, with our lovely garden and quiet Study Centre counterbalanced by the busy Dining Hall and exuberant DarBar. Situated centrally, close to many of the University departments (and on a convenient bus route to those further away), Darwin delights in peaceful hidden gardens with the river and islands, as well as our own punts, kayaks and canoe.