The President of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso, visited the University on Friday to deliver this year’s Alcuin Lecture, entitled “Europe in the 21st Century: non progredi est regredi”.
New research gives the first accurate estimate of how much faster the Earth’s core is rotating compared to the rest of the planet.
The contribution of Greenland to global sea level change and the mapping of previously unknown basins and mountains beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet are highlighted in a new film released by Cambridge University this morning.
His Royal Highness Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, visited the ADC Theatre this week to attend a performance of the Amateur Dramatic Club’s production of Michael Frayn’s hilarious farce Noises Off.
Scientists have pinpointed a key cancer-causing gene that, when overactive, triggers a particularly aggressive type of breast cancer to develop.
A new series of public lectures organised by the Department of East Asian Studies, will begin this week.
The life and work of Dr Emile Perreau-Saussine will celebrated at an evening of open discussion, today, (Thursday 17 February, 2011), at Fitzwilliam College.
Two new shows coming to the ADC Theatre include the premiere of Jeff Carpenter’s reinterpretation of Henry Purcell’s first (and only) all-sung opera Dido & Aeneas and Posh by Laura Wade.
Financial Services Authority Chairman Adair Turner will outline his vision for a financially stable future at Clare College, Cambridge this Friday.
Plans to develop a new teaching resource using a unique collection of films made in India during the final decades of British rule have been announced by the University of Cambridge.
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