Music for Degrees
16 April 2009A rare concert in the University of Cambridge’s Senate House, one of the highlights of the week-long Cambridge Cantat 800 choral festival, takes place this evening (April 16).
GEEMA and St John's showcase what Cambridge can offer ethnic minorities
14 April 2009Forty-five teenagers from schools in and around London have spent a day at St John’s College on a visit organised by the Windsor Fellowship in partnership with GEEMA – the Group to Encourage Ethnic Minority Applications to Cambridge.
Binoculars, bug viewers and plants that bite back
14 April 2009The Botanic Garden invites young naturalists to celebrate Darwin’s Bicentenary by following his footsteps this Easter holiday.
Building bridges to higher education
09 April 2009There’s a hum of concentrated chatter and a clutter of cardboard, glue guns, string and staplers in a ground floor teaching room at the Department of Engineering as teams of teenagers get down to the afternoon’s challenge – building bridges.
Celebrating Cambridge's Choral Culture
09 April 2009A come and sing event with one of the world’s best-known composers, a commemoration of Franz Joseph Haydn and a rare opportunity to hear a concert in the Senate House are among the offerings of Cambridge Cantat 800, a week-long celebration of Cambridge choirs, which kicks off this weekend (11 April).
Research reveals new information about antibiotic resistance in bacteria
07 April 2009Scientists at the University of Cambridge have uncovered the final piece in the jigsaw revealing the structure of ‘efflux pumps’ which allow Salmonella and other disease-causing bacteria to develop resistance to antibiotics and other drugs. The research, supported by the Wellcome Trust, allows greater understanding of how bacteria escape treatment and may help scientists develop new strategies to prevent antibiotic resistance.
A little bit of history in the making
03 April 2009On Tuesday afternoon a stream of Year 7 and 8 pupils stepped from the spring sunshine into the dimly-lit dining halls of St John’s and Corpus Christi Colleges to write a letter to their descendants, not to be opened for a hundred years.
Solar car aims to put rivals in the shade
03 April 2009Plans for a solar-powered racing car which will cruise at 60mph using the same power as a hairdryer have been unveiled by students at Cambridge University.
Teachers conference gets the thumbs up
02 April 2009The largest Cambridge University teachers' conference for ten years took place at the University earlier this week, with around 250 teachers from state schools and colleges around the country taking part.
Robot scientist becomes first machine to discover new scientific knowledge
02 April 2009Scientists from the University of Cambridge and Aberystwyth University have created a "robot scientist" which the researchers believe is the first machine to have independently discovered new scientific knowledge.
