Spirit of the age
07 March 2003Members of a team of women aiming to ski across Antarctica to the South Pole are to give a public lecture on their planned expedition tomorrow (Tuesday 11 March).
Manful assertions
07 March 2003The Centre for Gender Studies will hold its sixth annual symposium this weekend. The event will explore the ways in which different cultures have constructed their views of what it means to be a man, and in particular the recurring tendency for cultures to create masculinities which attempt to essentialise male identity by defining it according to a universal set of fixed values.
Networking with industry
06 March 2003A major collaboration between the University of Cambridge and leading computer company Intel will be launched at the University's high-tech West Cambridge campus today.
Professor Roger Needham, 1935-2003
04 March 2003Cambridge lost one of its most outstanding scientists with the death of Professor Roger Needham CBE FREng FRS. He died peacefully at his home on 28 February 2003, after a valiant struggle with illness.
Nussbaum gives Tanner Lectures
28 February 2003This year's Tanner Lectures will be delivered by Martha Nussbaum, Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago. Her lecture series, entitled, Beyond the Social Contract: Toward Global Justice will explore the limitations of the social contract tradition in addressing some of the world's most pressing problems and the possibilities present in the 'capabilities approach' which she has long championed.
Cambridge on tour
28 February 2003Cambridge is reaching out to more potential students than ever before, with the Widening Participation team planning five Oxbridge conferences, over 50 school visits over the next few weeks, as well as the Young Black and Asian Achievers (YBAA) challenge.
Advance in understanding effects of radiation
27 February 2003Cambridge scientists have identified a new molecule that seems to play a crucial role in protecting cells against radiation. The discovery, reported in the journal Nature today, should help scientists understand how exposure to radiation can cause cancer.
Light years ahead
25 February 2003A new centre for the study of photonics opens today (Wednesday 26 February) at the Cambridge Science Park. The venture brings together three groups from the University’s Engineering Department, in collaboration with several other University departments and industrial partners to investigate the different aspects of photonics, applications and materials.
Albie Sachs visits Cambridge
21 February 2003One of the leading figures in the struggle to end Apartheid in South Africa returns to Cambridge this week to give two talks. Justice Albie Sachs, a Judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, was the first Nuffield Fellow of Socio-Legal Studies, at Bedford College, London, and Wolfson College, Cambridge. He will give lectures at the Centre for Public Law and to the University's South African Students group.
Miscarriage and coronary heart disease linked
21 February 2003For the first time, a specific link has been found between spontaneous abortion and risk of coronary heart disease in later life, according to researchers in this week's issue of the British Medical Journal.
