Professor Robert Kennicutt, Director of the Institute of Astronomy, is one of three recipients of this year’s Gruber Cosmology Prize which recognises his work in determining the age of the Universe, around 14 billion years old.
One of the most famous trials in history has been misrepresented as a miscarriage of justice, when it was really a legitimate case of democracy in action, a controversial new study claims.
The former President of India, Dr Abdul Kalam, will address an invited audience of students, academics and practitioners at Judge Business School next Tuesday 9 June as a guest of the School’s Centre for India & Global Business.
A lecture by one of India’s most distinguished scientists will be the highlight of this year’s Armourers and Brasiers’ Cambridge Forum, to be hosted by the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy next Tuesday 9 June.
Reed warblers live with the threat that a cuckoo bird will infiltrate their nest, remove one of their eggs, and replace it with the cuckoo’s own. This ‘parasitism’ enables the cuckoo to have its young raised by unsuspecting reed warblers.
In mid-July people will be coming from all over the country to take part in Going Further, a free four-day residential summer school for prospective mature students.
Champion racehorse trainer, Henry Cecil, is supporting cancer research at the Department of Pathology, with a personal breakfast invitation, to his Warren Place stables in Newmarket. The lucky winner will also be taken on a tour and out to the gallops.
Officer Cadet Fern Adams has been recognised by the MOD’s Directorate of Aviation Regulation and Safety when she was awarded what is thought to be the first ‘Green Endorsement’ to a University Air Squadron Cadet.
MP and Shadow Foreign Secretary William Hague delivered a special lecture in Cambridge as one of the events being held to celebrate the 425th anniversary of the founding of Cambridge University Press.
Nobel Laureates have called for urgent action for a ‘low carbon and equitable future’. The announcement, which is part of a larger memorandum, is the outcome of the St James’s Palace Nobel Laureate Symposium held this week in London.
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