The new eco-architecture studio at Scroope Terrace, home to the University's Faculty of Architecture and History of Art, has been shortlisted for a Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) East Spirit of Ingenuity Award 2008 in two of eight award categories - Education Healthcare Award and Sustainability Award.
Gates Scholars from around the world celebrated the end of the academic year with a summer party this evening.
The UK's performance on some of the biggest economic, social and constitutional issues of the last 10 years is being reviewed and debated at a Cambridge conference this week.
Winners of an art competition based on images from the microscopic world of nanotechnology were at Cambridge University's Nanoscience Centre on Friday to receive their prizes.
“When you look around Cambridge you see signs of history and prestige, and think about the famous people who have worked here, and you go wow! Then you look again and see that the students all around you are just like you, not posh or all from public school.”
Teenagers from two schools visited the Centre for Mathematical Sciences this week to show how they'd unearthed valuable data on disease dynamics during a nine-month research initiative organised by the Millennium Mathematics Project in partnership with the Disease Dynamics Research Group, and funded by the Wellcome Trust.
The developing world is being infested by Western-style social health problems such as obesity and “couch-potato” living, which could ultimately widen the global gap between rich and poor, new research suggests.
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