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DOWNING COLLEGE 2009–2010Ken McNamara gave the keynote speech at a conference on Charles Darwinin Western Australia in October 2009. The talk, The Importance of DevelopmentalRepatterning in the Evolution of Trilobites, was subsequently published by the RoyalSociety of Western Australia. Books published during the year were Australia’sMeteorite Craters and the Chinese edition of his children’s book on evolution,called It’s True! We Came from Slime. Much of the year was spent shepherdinghis book The Star-Crossed Stone through the production stage at the Universityof Chicago Press. The book, the culmination of nigh on twenty years of researchand writing, will be published in October 2010.Sophie Harrington is the Mays Wild Fellow and a Research Fellow in MaterialsScience. She joins the Fellowship after taking her BA and PhD at Newnham.She is working on nano materials in the Device Materials Group in theDepartment of Materials Science & Metallurgy. She has also added to theFellowships’ croquet abilities. She won first prize in the poster session at theMaterials Research Society Spring meeting in San Francisco for her work onBuilding Better Barium Titanate with Nanoscaffolds. She has given invited talks atconferences in Florida and Washington and continues to regularly visit andcollaborate with Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico. She will begetting married in August.Subha Mukerji has joined the Fellowship as a Fellow in English working withCathy Phillips and Marcus Tomalin. She was educated in Calcutta, Oxford andCambridge, has taught at the University of Leeds and at Fitzwilliam College,Cambridge, and is currently Lecturer in English. She has worked extensivelyon the relation between law and literature in the Renaissance, and oninterdisciplinarity more broadly. Her current research focuses on literary formand the uses of doubt in early modern writing; knowledge and epistemologies;and the works of John Ford. Her publications include Law and Representation inEarly Modern Drama (Cambridge University Press, 2006), EarlyModern Tragicomedy (Boydell and Brewer, 2007) – a volume of essays coeditedwith Raphael Lyne, and several articles on English Renaissance drama.Adam Ramadan is our new Fellow in Geography. He took his BA atCambridge, his MPhil at UCL and his DPhil at Oxford. His research lies inpolitical and cultural geography, and focuses on the everyday lives of Palestinianrefugees living in refugee camps in Lebanon. He addresses how Palestiniansunderstand and negotiate regional geopolitics in their everyday lives, howPalestinian refugee identities are produced and reproduced in exile, and howrefugee camps are constructed as national, political and cultural spaces.114