Searching for Ithaca

30 November 2005
Where is the Ithaca described in such detail in Homer's Odyssey? The mystery has baffled scholars for over two millennia because Homer's descriptions bear little resemblance to the modern island called Ithaki, one of the Ionian Islands off the coast of western Greece.
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Live genetic fingerprinting

28 November 2005
The University of Cambridge’s infamous Naked Scientists will launch the UK’s first ever BBC Radio DNA fingerprinting ’‘race’ on 2 December 2005.
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New network for East of England’s ladies who launch

28 November 2005
The East of England is a uniquely entrepreneurial environment, with cutting-edge research organisations, switched-on local authorities, a keen investment community, a competitive service industry, and a world-class network of universities. So why aren’t more women in Silicon Fen starting their own companies or taking leadership roles within existing high-tech organisations? That’s the question that a new conference for women working in technology is hoping to answer and address.
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A pleasing terror

28 November 2005
Medieval scholar, pioneering bicyclist, and writer of supernatural tales, Montague Rhodes James was a well-known Cambridge figure.
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Investors' Forum

28 November 2005
Cambridge Enterprise held its second Investors’ Forum at New Hall on 16th November, sponsored once again by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.
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The future of interdisciplinarity

28 November 2005

The Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) at the University of Cambridge will be five years old in December 2005.

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Ideas to Reality celebration 2005

25 November 2005
Celebrating the achievements of University of Cambridge innovators and their commercial partners, Cambridge Enterprise held its third annual Ideas to Reality Celebration on 16 November.
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Tampering with the past

24 November 2005

£1m grant goes to four university departments working in unprecedented collaboration to uncover how the Victorians tampered with the past and changed history.

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Grid Computing Project funded by DTI

22 November 2005
The University of Cambridge is a major contributor on a project funded by the Department of Trade and Industry to deliver an innovative computational service to speed research and development for organisations developing or applying novel materials.
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