Leading pharmaceuticals company Merck Sharp & Dohme (MSD) have recently entered into a new educational sponsorship agreement to give a further £1.5m to the University to support the training of future neuroscientists at Cambridge.
What is the purpose and future of university collections? These issues were discussed by an international meeting of academics and museum staff at a conference held at Peterhouse, Cambridge this week.
A five-day walk across the Peruvian Andes might not seem the ideal holiday for someone with arthritic knees and a severe cartilage injury but that does not seem to bother Debi Cleary, a technician at the Department of Zoology. Perhaps it is the fact that her mountain ordeal will raise funds for the leading UK mental-health charity Mind that is helping Debi to pass the pain barrier.
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