Setting the pace for Cambridge

25 September 2003

When Professor Alison Richard is inaugurated as the University of Cambridge’s 344th Vice-Chancellor on October 1, she will become the second woman to take on the role of principal academic and administrative officer of the University.

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Statement in response to the Sunday Times University Guide 2003

15 September 2003
We welcome the news that Cambridge once again comes top of the Sunday Times Good University Guide league table. We are pleased that the table recognises how much we offer students in terms of value for money, increasingly excellent facilities for study and research and the ‘community’ that college life offers.
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Developing Academics

15 September 2003

A unique week-long conference of international experts in higher education is currently underway at Clare College (13-18 September). The aim of the meeting is to find solutions to challenges about academic staff development and to contribute to a new book.

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Children and their families

15 September 2003
A new book from the Cambridge Socio-Legal Group takes a radical new look at children’s relationships after divorce and in other family situations.
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Venice in peril?

11 September 2003
A gondola will appear on the River Cam this Sunday to mark the start of a major international meeting which will examine the environmental dangers facing Venice.
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Targeting painful tendons

09 September 2003
Tendon problems can be very painful and often have few effective treatments. A team of Cambridge researchers are hoping to find a more effective way of relieving the symptoms of tendon problems with the help of a research grant by the Arthritis Research Campaign (arc).
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Music of the spheres

09 September 2003
Scientists from the University of Cambridge have detected sound waves emanating from a black hole for the first time.
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Genetic links found for mental disorders

08 September 2003
Two major psychotic illnesses have been found to have a similar genetic cause. Schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, or manic depression affects about 2 per cent of the population.
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Extending human life

04 September 2003

A conference this month will address one of the biggest scientific mysteries - how to extend human life.

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Are we too greedy?

03 September 2003
Sixty per cent of Britons believe they can not afford to buy everything they really need, according to a study of consumer perceptions undertaken by University of Cambridge visiting scholar Clive Hamilton.
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