Professor Colin Lizieri, an eminent scholar of real estate finance who specialises in modelling the development of world cities and office markets, is to join the University of Cambridge.
Rats fed a high-fat diet show a stark reduction in their physical endurance and a decline in their cognitive ability after just nine days, a new study has shown.
Dr Rebecca Lingwood, of the University of Oxford, has been appointed as the new Director of the University of Cambridge's Institute of Continuing Education.
The third prize winner in our series, Laura Adde, 17, emerges top of the class for her delightful diary of the Sutton Trust Summer School. Laura goes to Sussex Downs College in Eastbourne, East Sussex, and is interested in studying physics.
Professor Stephen Hawking, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University, has been awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He will collect his award from the US president Barack Obama at a ceremony held in the White House today, Wednesday 12 August.
A picture of the moment at which a vehicle which photographs deep-sea life was lowered into the murky depths for the first time has won this year’s photography competition at Cambridge University’s Department of Engineering.
Cambridge University is to participate in a new initiative that aims to strengthen health research in Africa.
A new research project has been launched by the University of Cambridge's Institute for Manufacturing (IfM) to investigate how firms can acquire new technology while protecting intellectual property.
New research indicates that rooks, members of the crow family, are able
to solve complex problems using tools
Scientists at the Centre for Neuroscience in Education have been awarded more than £1 million by the Medical Research Council (MRC) to investigate developmental dyscalculia using brain imaging techniques.
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