Lies and silences - Glendinning on biography
13 February 2002Victoria Glendinning CBE, FRSL gave the 2002 Leslie Stephen Lecture in the Senate House yesterday afternoon (Wednesday 13 February 2002).
Males suffer from having too many females
11 February 2002A team of British scientists has shown that too many female deer in a herd is bad news for males - as well as for deer herd managers.
Max Perutz, 1914 - 2002
08 February 2002Max Perutz, one of the founding fathers of molecular biology, died on 6 February 2002 at the age of 87.
Dino feet leave their mark
01 February 2002Fossilised footprints uncovered in an Oxfordshire quarry have revealed important clues about how large meat-eating theropod dinosaurs moved.
A new home at the Judge Institute of Management.
31 January 2002Two research organisations have been officially welcomed into their offices on the newly opened 6th floor of the Judge Institute of Management, the University of Cambridge’s business school.
A constructive partnership in Cambridge
25 January 2002The Institute of Criminology and the Faculty of English have both been given the go-ahead for new buildings on the Sidgwick site. Cambridge City Council’s planning committee have granted outline approval for the two buildings, which are expected to be completed in the summer of 2003.
New cancer research centre for Cambridge
23 January 2002Plans for a state-of-the-art cancer research centre that will reinforce Cambridge's position as a world leader in cancer research were approved at a meeting of the City Council last week.
FT success for Cambridge MBA
21 January 2002The Judge Institute of Management, University of Cambridge has
achieved excellent results in the latest MBA rankings issued by the
Financial Times today ( 21 January 2001). It came fourth in Europe,
22nd in the world and second overall for all United Kingdom MBA programmes. The Cambridge MBA is the most highly rated one-year MBA programme in the UK.
Benn on 'Power' - Darwin Lectures 2002
18 January 2002Today (18 January 2002) the veteran Labour left-winger Tony Benn comes to Cambridge to launch the annual Darwin Lecture series, which this year focuses on the theme of power. In his lecture, entitled Power and Democracy, Benn describes the historic demand for democratic control and the opposition which it has always faced in Britain and world-wide.
New Genetics Centre at Addenbrooke's
16 January 2002The Secretary of State for Health, Alan Milburn yesterday (Wednesday 16 January) announced details of a new Genetics Knowledge Park in Cambridge. The new initiative is part of a national programme to prepare the NHS for the genetics revolution.
