Women and Employment Survey
02 December 2005A conference is being held today (Monday, 5 December 2005) celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Women and Employment Survey.
Physics and Daleks
02 December 2005Next Sunday, 11 December, the University of Cambridge Physics Department is opening its doors to the Cambridgeshire public, as well as some unusual visitors from outer space.
Budding writers get brainy
02 December 2005Two postdoctoral researchers from the University of Cambridge and the Babraham Institute have been placed first and second in the Researcher’s Prize category in the first ever National Brain Science Writing Prize.
Arts & Humanities in Business
01 December 2005So-called ’‘third stream’ activities tend to focus on technology transfer from the Science and Technology base. The aim of this day is to redress the balance by promoting successful examples of business learning from philosophers, musicians and anthropologists.
Black holes are intergalactic
01 December 2005Longest ever X-ray observation of a galaxy cluster proves that black holes reach over massive intergalactic distances and stop largest galaxies growing
Searching for Ithaca
30 November 2005Where is the Ithaca described in such detail in Homer's Odyssey? The mystery has baffled scholars for over two millennia because Homer's descriptions bear little resemblance to the modern island called Ithaki, one of the Ionian Islands off the coast of western Greece.
The future of interdisciplinarity
28 November 2005The Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) at the University of Cambridge will be five years old in December 2005.
Investors' Forum
28 November 2005Cambridge Enterprise held its second Investors’ Forum at New Hall on 16th November, sponsored once again by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.
A pleasing terror
28 November 2005Medieval scholar, pioneering bicyclist, and writer of supernatural tales, Montague Rhodes James was a well-known Cambridge figure.
New network for East of England’s ladies who launch
28 November 2005The East of England is a uniquely entrepreneurial environment, with cutting-edge research organisations, switched-on local authorities, a keen investment community, a competitive service industry, and a world-class network of universities. So why aren’t more women in Silicon Fen starting their own companies or taking leadership roles within existing high-tech organisations? That’s the question that a new conference for women working in technology is hoping to answer and address.
