The University of Cambridge and Cambridge University Hospitals have been awarded £110m to ‘boost research and allow the development of ground breaking medicines’. The funding is part of an £800 million investment by the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) - the UK’s largest ever investment in ‘early stage’ health research.
Two Cambridge academics have been selected as the joint recipients of one of the most prestigious honours for scientific achievement in the field of psychology.
Critical insight provided into the disease mechanisms behind multiple sclerosis.
Two Cambridge institutions, the Department of Linguistics and the Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics, have merged as of 1 August 2011 to form the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics within the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages.
A new way of predicting which people may become friends on social networks - based on the type of places they visit - has been formulated by University of Cambridge researchers.
With over a month to go before the deadline, the industry judges are announced for the My Cam short film competition, including Hollywood director Chris Weitz.
Volume of modern humans infiltrating Europe cited as critical factor in the demise of the Neanderthals.
Loraine Gelsthorpe FRSA, Fellow of Pembroke College and Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the Institute of Criminology (Faculty of Law) within the University of Cambridge, was elected as President of the British Society of Criminology at the BSC’s annual conference in July.
From the fictional Downton Abbey to the modest suburban semi, domestic service has had a prominent role in the story, whether real or imagined, of British society over the past 100 years. In Knowing Their Place: Domestic Service in Twentieth-Century Britain, Cambridge historian Dr Lucy Delap navigates the shifting drama played out in that most intimate and domestic workplace: the home.
After five successful years, the Department of Physics at the University of Cambridge has added a new twist to the Senior Physics Challenge by inviting teachers to join in.
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