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We are seeking outstanding students with strongacademic records, a passion for learning and adesire to expand their knowledge. The Universityof Cambridge Summer Programme 2013 hosted bythe Canadian International School of Hong Kong isopen to students of CDNIS and to any intellectuallycurious student entering grades 9-12 (ages 15-18)in the 2013-2014 academic year who are looking fora unique global learning opportunity without havingto leave Hong Kong. Our programme is distinctivein that it is designed for individuals who have strongwritten and verbal communication skills, draw wellreasonedconclusions, enjoy problem solving, andconsistently adhere to a high standard of personaland professional conduct.Programme PresentersMs Crystal EisingerCrystal Eisinger graduated with adouble first degree from Cambridgein Politics and History. Duringher time at Cambridge she wasSecretary of the Cambridge UnionSociety and President of the TrinityHall Politics Society.Ms. C. EisingerShe has debated competitively forover 10 years both in the Oxford Union andCambridge Union. She has extensive experiencein teaching a range of ages and abilities. Crystalworked as an assistant tutor for a companyproviding professional public speaking coaching,corporate communications training and educationactivities for students.Dr. Martin RuehlUniversity of CambridgeDr. Martin Ruehl specializes inthe history of modern Germanpolitical thought. His research todate has focussed on the ideas andideologies that shaped Germansociety and culture between1871 and 1945, in particular theDr. M. Ruehlphilosophy of Friedrich Nietzscheand its reception.He has published books and articles on Nietzsche,Burckhardt, Thomas Mann, Ernst Kantorowicz,German philosophies of history and philhellenism.His essay on aesthetic fundamentalism in thewritings of the George Circle will appear in thecollective volume Weimar Thought: A ContestedLegacy, ed. Peter Gordon (Princeton University Press,2013). His monograph The Making of Modernity:Renaissance Italy and the German HistoricalImagination, 1860-1930 will be published later thisyear by Cambridge University Press.Dr Emilie RingeUniversity of CambridgeDr. Emilie Ringe is a Gott JuniorResearch Fellow at Trinity Hall,Cambridge University, as well as aNewton International Research Fellowof the Royal Society. She obtained an IBDiploma from CEGEP André-Laurendeauand studied at McGill University in herDr. E. Ringenative Canada before being awarded aM.S. from Northwestern Universityin inorganic crystallography. She then completed aPh.D. in optical spectroscopy and analytical modellingat Northwestern University in the United States,where she developed new techniques to understandthe properties of gold and silver nanoparticles.She currently works in the high resolution electronmicroscopy group at Cambridge University; herresearch interests include atomic resolution elementalmapping of alloy nanoparticles relevant for catalysisapplications, as well as near-field plasmon mappingfor sensing applications. She is actively involved in theteaching of materials science, nanotechnology, andmaterials engineering.Dr. Andrew MurrayUniversity of CambridgeDr. Andrew Murray is a UniversityLecturer in Physiology at the Universityof Cambridge, and is actively involvedin the teaching of students studyingmedicine, veterinary medicine andnatural sciences in Cambridge. He isalso the Admissions Tutor for Sciencesat Trinity Hall, one of the Cambridgecolleges. Dr Murray’s research concernsDr. A. Murray energy metabolism in mammalian cells,and how metabolic processes can beaffected by disease and extreme physiological states.In particular, he is interested in how tissues function inlow oxygen conditions such as those seen in patientswith heart failure and mountaineers at high altitude.Dr Murray is the co-Principal Investigator of XtremeEverest, a field study of high altitude physiology, andhis team recently made the first measurements ofenergy levels in the hearts and muscles of climbersreturning from the summit of Mount Everest.