The University of Cambridge and national education charity Villiers Park Educational Trust, which is based in Cambridgeshire, are developing stronger links to encourage able students from backgrounds under-represented in Higher Education to aspire to university.

Students at St Edmund’s College, Cambridge, joined forces with Guide Dogs UK to organise a day of puppy love as part of a series of welfare events organised this term for students in the run up to exams.

Allison Pearson, bestselling novelist, newspaper columnist and commentator, and Dr Chloe Preedy, Cambridge University Lecturer in Renaissance Literature and Fellow of Lucy Cavendish College, will award this year's Lucy Cavendish College Fiction Prize. 

New research establishes nature of malfunction in protein molecules that can lead to onset of dementia.

Amid high-profile, real-life murder investigations and growing concerns about public safety, a new breed of crime fiction is sweeping South Africa, as one of its leading writers will tell the University of Cambridge this week.

Ash dieback, caused by the Chalara fungus, prompts re-evaluation of current protocols to protect UK trees and other plants; taskforce recommends threats to plant health be taken as seriously as animal disease

A new book prize aimed at furthering our understanding of the Russian-speaking world will help the West to come to terms with the complexity of post-Soviet Russian culture and overcome media stereotypes, according to a University of Cambridge lecturer.

A ground-breaking report examining the experiences of nearly 50 British women of all ages, ethnicities, backgrounds and faiths (or no faith) – who have all converted to Islam - was launched in London yesterday by the University of Cambridge.

The University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge will be closed to the public from June 2nd 2013. Subject to planning permission, the museum will be undergoing a major redevelopment.

A garden event with a difference, the Festival of Plants brings together horticulture and plant science in a day devoted to all things plant, from propagation to pollination, from seed to shopping!