The University of Cambridge has today submitted the names of eight distinguished individuals to the Regent House for approval for the conferment of honorary degrees by the Chancellor at a Congregation in the Senate House on Wednesday 20 June 2012.
Pembroke, St. Catharine’s and Trinity Colleges, Cambridge and Wadham College, Oxford teamed up to offer an Arts and Humanities Taster Day for Year 12 students on Saturday 25th February.
The Cambridge Science Festival Schools Roadshow programme kicked off last week with a Schools Hub at Sawston Village College on Thursday 1 March. Academics from the University of Cambridge led exciting workshops, giving science talks and demonstrations to pupils from six primary schools and from Sawston Village College.
Most primitive known vertebrate and therefore the ancestor of all descendant vertebrates, including humans, discovered.
Research provides new insights about what caused the extinction of many of the world’s big animals over the last 100,000 years.
A host of prominent figures will be in Cambridge this week to highlight gender inequality across the world
Cambridge outweighed Oxford at today’s Crew Announcement and Weigh-In for the 158th Xchanging Boat Race, with the Light Blues weighing in significantly heavier by an average of 7.9kg per man than their Dark Blue rivals.
A senior delegation from one of Brazil’s leading Universities visited Cambridge today to explore the potential for further collaboration.
Final year undergraduates who have their say about Cambridge by taking part in the 2012 National Student Survey will have the chance to win May Ball tickets.
Over the past few years, the genre of ‘nature writing’ has seen a new sense of urgency, fostered by a growing awareness of a natural world under pressure. Dr Robert Macfarlane, from the Faculty of English, believes that writers have played, and continue to play, a central role in conservation by engaging our hearts and our minds.
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