Changed perceptions of Oxbridge

15 August 2005
Perceptions of Oxford and Cambridge have shifted in the last six years, with students and teachers more likely to mention academic factors as their distinguishing features, according to research published today.
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Dirac Medal for Sir Sam

11 August 2005
Sir Sam Edwards, Emeritus Cavendish Professor of the University of Cambridge, has been awarded the 2005 Dirac Medal by the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP).
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Judged the best

11 August 2005
Mark de Rond from the University of Cambridge's Judge Business School is this year's recipient of the Academy of Management's George R. Terry Book Award.
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Excavating mammoth houses

11 August 2005
University of Cambridge archaeologists are joining forces with Czech colleagues to study the world’s first houses, sometimes built from mammoth bones, in Southern Moravia.
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Easier, Faster, Cleaner Chemistry

09 August 2005
Making the production of pharmaceutical drugs easier, quicker, cleaner and cheaper is the aim of new company, Reaxa Ltd, founded by Professor Steven Ley of the University of Cambridge with partners including the leading fine chemicals company Avecia.
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Real Madagascar

05 August 2005

If a talking zebra, giraffe and hippo seemed strange in the animated movie ’‘Madagascar’, then the real life furry inhabitants of the island in the Indian Ocean will seem truly bizarre.

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Cambridge Assessment

03 August 2005
Cambridge Assessment is the new identity of the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate (UCLES), one of the world's largest assessment agencies.
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Digital Pygmalion

03 August 2005
An innovative technique which could revolutionise digital archiving, face acquisition for computer gaming and cinema, and even Internet shopping has been developed by a Cambridge engineer.
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Master appointed to Churchill College

02 August 2005

The Queen has approved that Sir David Wallace Kt DL PhD FRS FREng be appointed to the Mastership of Churchill College, Cambridge, in succession to Sir John Boyd KCMG.

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