New leadership at Cambridge Enterprise
06 March 2006The University of Cambridge is appointing Teri F. Willey, an expert in commercialising early stage technologies based on university research, as the new Director of Cambridge Enterprise.
Fighting foot-and-mouth disease
03 March 2006University of Cambridge scientist Professor Stephen Brooks and his colleagues have revealed a new method of controlling foot-and-mouth outbreaks that could possibly prevent the mass slaughter of livestock if the disease should erupt again.
Winston Churchill Open Day
03 March 2006An open day at the Churchill Archives Centre on Saturday 4 March will showcase ten years’ work on more than a million documents in the Churchill Papers collection.
First ever ’‘U8’ summit at Cambridge this weekend
03 March 2006The first ever meeting of an inter-university summit to tackle global poverty and development will be held at the University of Cambridge this weekend.
Picturing astronomers
01 March 2006The University of Cambridge Institute of Astronomy is holding an art competition for primary schools around the country to submit drawings by students of what they think astronomers do. The aim of the competition is to gain insight on how children today view astronomers, and to set up a role-model scheme for graduate students to visit primary schools and inspire students to study science.
Cam Connect for a career
28 February 2006The University Careers Service hosted their sixth annual Cam Connect careers event for local employers at the Judge Business School last week.
BP's Lord Browne says energy could be made completely clean
24 February 2006The University yesterday hosted a major lecture by Lord Browne of Madingley, the group chief executive of BP, in which he expressed concern about global energy supplies.
Prize for research to develop tailor-made hearing aids
21 February 2006A Cambridge student developing a new technique to fine-tune hearing aids in young children has won the 2006 Pauline Ashley Prize awarded by Deafness Research UK, the only national charity dedicated to supporting medical research into deafness and other hearing problems.
Sea level to rise faster than previously predicted
20 February 2006Professor Julian Dowdeswell, Director of the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, states that current evidence suggests sea-level will rise faster than previously predicted.
Generations of astronomers survey the stars
16 February 2006A Cambridge PhD student is following in his great-great-grandfather's footsteps by helping to measure the speeds of up to one million stars passing near the Sun, a huge advance on the efforts of his ancestor who was able to measure the speeds of only 100 stars over a century ago.
