The Times newspaper has named 13 Cambridge academics in their inaugural list of the 100 most important contemporary figures in British science. The first ranking of contemporary figures in British science was released today in Eureka, The Times’ monthly science magazine.
The British Academy has today announced the scholars elected for this year’s Fellowships in recognition of their contribution to the humanities and social sciences.
Mr H.E Mohammed J. Al-Sager, chair of the Council for Arab and International Relations, will be giving a public lecture in Cambridge this evening (Thursday May 6).
Cambridge Admissions Office is inviting current undergraduate students to send in photos they’ve taken of Cambridge that give a candid student’s eye view of the university.
Professor Stephen Hawking, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University, has been awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He will collect his award from the US president Barack Obama at a ceremony held in the White House today, Wednesday 12 August.
Relations between Europe and China will come under the spotlight tonight at the second meeting of the student-organised Cambridge – China forum.
The Britten Sinfonia premiered a new composition from Ryan Wigglesworth in Krakow, Poland this weekend, made possible by a grant from the University of Cambridge’s 800th Anniversary Fund.
Sav Perumal, 17, a student at St Olave’s Grammar School in Orpington, Kent, was one of 100 sixth-formers who spent last week on the Gonville and Caius summer school.
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