A new ranking of Universities worldwide by their standing among experienced academics has placed the University of Cambridge third, behind Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Whether they affect the films we watch, the books we read or the music we listen to, our choices about entertainment often appear to have as much to do with style, as substance.
A new study of wrongdoing and its cultures in Spain from 1800 to 1936 will explore the fascination of popular versions of crime and other misdemeanours.
The University of Cambridge has today submitted the names of eight distinguished individuals to the Regent House for approval for the conferment of honorary degrees at a Congregation in the Senate House on Thursday 23 June 2011.
A collection of seven-minute talks, in which eminent researchers from the arts and humanities explain both why their subjects matter, and how their future is threatened by current higher education reforms, is being released online.
The lecture given in honour of the 2010 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, awarded to IVF pioneer Professor Bob Edwards (pictured) in Stockholm last year, is to be repeated in Cambridge today (8 March).
The 2011 Xchanging Boat Race later this month will pit an Oxford boat composed largely of British students with an impressive rowing pedigree against a slightly older, multi-national Cambridge eight that includes three returning Blues from last year’s epic encounter.
The historian, Professor Simon Schama, will be giving a free public lecture on the theme of toleration between the Abrahamic faiths at St Edmunds College, Cambridge, this Tuesday.
The University of Cambridge’s first International Women’s Day lecture takes place this evening as part of a programme of events to mark the 100th anniversary of IWD.
'Night Time Lapse Over the Backs' wins Undergraduate Student Photography Competition.
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