Student Innovation
28 October 2005Cambridge University Entrepreneurs (CUE) launched their 2005/06 CUE Business Creation Competition (CUEBiC) and 3P (People, Planet and Productivity) Business Creation Competition on 13th October.
To Boldly Go: Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century
28 October 2005Right now, all over the world, there are hundreds of millions of people actively trying to start a new business – some out of necessity, some to escape poverty, and others to fulfil a lifetime's ambition. Whatever their motivation, these entrepreneurs are making a dramatic contribution to our world: creating jobs, fostering innovation, and acting as catalysts for economic growth and development.
Photographic exhibition
27 October 2005Some of the finest of Herbert Ponting’s photographs taken on Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s fateful expedition to the Antarctic are now on display at the Scott Polar Research Institute.
Investors Forum
26 October 2005Cambridge Enterprise will be holding their second Investors' Forum at New Hall on November 16.
Bite-sized knowledge
25 October 2005The University of Cambridge is joining forces with Nottingham and London Metropolitan Universities to create a Centre for Excellence in Teaching & Learning (CETL) in Reusable Learning Objects.
Creative enterprise
25 October 2005How can cities and regions become both more enterprising and more creative? Will policies to foster thriving regional knowledge economies, built on science- and technology-based companies, conflict with the need to tackle poverty and social exclusion? Or can a truly inclusive society be built that embraces business entrepreneurs, cultural creatives and people in 'knowledge jobs' ranging from science to law?
Cambridge student wins Keats-Shelley Prize
25 October 2005A Cambridge postgraduate student has been awarded the 2005 Keats-Shelley Prize for excellence in writing on Romantic themes.
Trafalgar Day: Franco-British student summit
21 October 2005On the bicentenary of the battle of Trafalgar, students from British and French universities will meet to promote Franco-British cooperation and the global competitiveness of British and French universities.
Travelling passions
21 October 2005Gisli Palson, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Iceland will be giving the 2005 Stefansson Memorial Lecture, “Travelling Passions: The Life and Legacy of Vilhjalmur Stefansson, the Artic Explorer" tonight (1 November) at 6 pm at the Scott Polar Research Institute.
Whittle Laboratory Scholarship established
21 October 2005The Whittle Laboratory, based at the Department of Engineering, has received a fund of £410,000 from Professor John Denton for the benefit of postgraduate students working in the Laboratory. The funds, received by the University via Cambridge University Technical Services Ltd. (CUTS), were raised from the sale of software created by Professor Denton.
