Fitzwilliam trials new visitor guides

24 July 2002
The latest technology will be on show at The Fitzwilliam Museum this summer in a three-week trial of visitor information systems. The Museum is offering information about its collections through two different systems: state-of-the-art digital audio guides and pioneering wireless computing technology. Visitors will be encouraged to try out both systems and pass comment on their respective merits.
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Gene hunters track the horse

22 July 2002
Scientists have shed new light on the origins of the domestic horse. After analysing DNA samples from both ancient and modern horses, researchers have concluded that contemporary horses do not have a single ancestry, but were probably domesticated from several distinct ancestral populations.
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Superconducting cameras to photograph the Big Bang

15 July 2002
Major scientific advances, such as studying the very earliest moments of the Big Bang, finding galaxies beyond the edge of the currently observable universe, creating the next generation of x-ray astronomy satellites and sub-cellular imaging of DNA and other biological materials are all now a step closer
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Europe - the bigger picture

12 July 2002

The Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS) at Cambridge last week held a conference which considered the complex legal aspects of one of the most dramatic current developments in geopolitics - EU enlargement.

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Making light of gravity

08 July 2002
Supermassive black holes and gamma-ray bursts will be under discussion this week at a conference to celebrate the contribution of Professor Sir Martin Rees, Britain's Astronomer Royal, to the field of theoretical astrophysics.
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Government Minister Gives Keynote Speech

05 July 2002

The Right Honourable Patricia Hewitt MP, Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, has today (5 July 2002), used a major speech at Cambridge University’s Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law (3CL) to talk about corporate law reform in the UK.

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Cambridge Governance Reforms

26 June 2002

Today (Wednesday 26 June 2002), the University of Cambridge Council publishes recommended amendments to the University's constitution.

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Honorary degrees awarded

24 June 2002
Today (Monday 24 June 2002) the Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, HRH the Duke of Edinburgh, conferred honorary degrees at a traditional ceremony in the University's Senate House.
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