Honorary Degrees 2013
18 Jun 2013The Chancellor, Lord Sainsbury of Turville, today conferred Honorary Degrees on eight distinguished individuals at a congregation in the Senate House.
Engineering the Future
18 Jun 2013The UK needs to recruit more bright, young engineers - but what do young people really think engineering involves? Tim Minshall decided to find out.
Director of Communications appointed
18 Jun 2013The University of Cambridge has appointed a new Director of Communications.
Towards the ‘holy grail’ of anticoagulant drugs
17 Jun 2013New Cambridge spin-out raises $11 million in funding to develop revolutionary new drug for thrombosis, which causes heart attacks and strokes.
Born to rule: two public talks look at royal births of the past
16 Jun 2013The hype surrounding the birth of a royal baby is nothing new. Two public lectures (18 and 25 June) will explore the Tudor and Stuart obsession with producing a male heir.
Cambridge academics and senior staff listed in the Queen's Birthday Honours
15 Jun 2013Four Cambridge Professors and the University's Director of Physical Education and Sport have been recognised in the latest honours list.
New Visiting Fellowship will bring Brazilian expertise to Cambridge
14 Jun 2013Professor Christopher Dobson, Master of St John’s, and Professor Jorge Guimarães, President of CAPES, sign agreement for the creation of the Celso Furtado Visiting Fellowship in Brazilian History and Humanities
Large Hadron ‘insider’
14 Jun 2013In a recent talk for TEDx, theoretical physicist Professor Ben Allanach explored the research he undertook during the two years he spent working on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerland. Here, he takes us back to his time as one of the scientists working on the biggest scientific experiment in human history.
Literacy, not income, key to improving public health in India
13 Jun 2013New research suggests public health in developing countries may be better improved by reducing illiteracy rather than raising average income.
Cambridge named Academic Centre of Excellence in Cybersecurity Research
13 Jun 2013Cambridge formally recognised as centre of excellence for cybsersecurity research.
