Shostakovich premiere
22 June 2005The western premiere of Shostakovich's Symphony No 4 will take place this Sunday (26 June) at the University of Cambridge's West Road Concert Hall.
Royal opening for the Faculty of Education
20 June 2005The Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, today unveiled a plaque to open the new building for the Faculty of Education on Hills Road.
Awards for Cambridge historians
17 June 2005The achievements of three Cambridge historians have been recognised with prestigious awards during June 2005.
Second US$10 million gift to support finance research
17 June 2005Dr William Janeway, Vice-Chairman of Warburg Pincus based in New York, and Co-Chairman of the Cambridge 800th Anniversary Campaign Board, and Weslie Janeway, an investment consultant, have made a US$10 million gift to the University of Cambridge.
Mapping human history
16 June 2005Work to create one of the UK’s finest centres for human evolutionary research reached a critical stage last week with the ’‘topping out’ of a major new facility for the University of Cambridge.
Cambridge launches cross-channel rowing challenge
16 June 2005The excitement of the Boat Race is to be recaptured in a new challenge laid down by a Cambridge College boat club in an historic bid to race across the English Channel.
Armourers and Brasiers’ Cambridge Forum
15 June 2005This year’s Armourers and Brasiers’ Cambridge Forum will be held on Thursday 16 June at the Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy on the New Museums Site in central Cambridge.
Eight new Fellows of the Royal Society from Cambridge
14 June 2005Five University staff, two members of Microsoft Research Cambridge and a member of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge are among the 44 new Fellows named by the Royal Society.
President officially opens Cambridge University Ireland Society
13 June 2005Her Excellency, Mary McAleese, Eighth President of Ireland, was in Cambridge on Friday to officially open the Cambridge University Ireland Society at King’s College.
Knighthood for Cambridge Anthropologist
10 June 2005Anthropologist and historian Professor Jack Goody, a fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge since 1961, is to receive a knighthood in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List announced today.
