Among the fresh faces starting at the University of Cambridge this term will be 67 students whose stunning A-level results earned them a place under the University’s new Adjustment scheme. Although they narrowly missed out on a place following their original application and interview, all were given the chance to reconsider Cambridge if they performed beyond expectations in their exams. Here are some of their inspirational stories.
Bookings open today for this year’s Cambridge Festival of Ideas which takes place at a time of political upheaval across the world.
Cambridge engineers have developed a new augmented reality (AR) head-mounted display (HMD) that delivers a realistic 3D viewing experience, without the commonly associated side effects of nausea or eyestrain.
Previously unrecorded book from Gabriel Harvey’s collection extends our knowledge of one of the most conspicuous and fascinating early modern annotators
Cambridge is to establish a University Enterprise Zone as part of a new government initiative announced today by Universities Minister Chris Skidmore.
The Vice-Chancellor, Professor Stephen J Toope, kicks off a global day of action with a discussion on the University’s efforts to tackle climate change.
A new exhibition celebrates the City of London's 18th-century female entrepreneurs
Sheen Gurrib is a PhD candidate in the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, where she is researching ways to improve chronic lower back pain. Here, she tells us about working with refugees to help them get into Cambridge, the importance of collaboration, and why her research has involved searching through butcher shops.
A new journal from Cambridge University Press will take a radical new approach to both publishing and peer reviewing research.
Following an international search, Professor Neil Lawrence has been appointed as the inaugural DeepMind Professor of Machine Learning at Cambridge, supported by a benefaction from the world-leading British AI company.
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