Ethnic minority students sample university life
28 June 2004Ethnic minority teenagers from across the UK have been designing bridges and taking part in mock legal trials at a summer school giving them a taste of university life.
Leading centre for disease study opens in Cambridge
25 June 2004Nobel Prize winning scientist Professor Joshua Lederberg will open a unique disease research facility in Cambridge on Monday 28 June.
Autism charity focuses on intervention
24 June 2004The Autism Research Centre (ARC) at the University of Cambridge launched the Autism Intervention Research Trust (AIRT) on June 22 in Cambridge.
Our war with microbes
23 June 2004Professor Joshua Lederberg, Professor-Emeritus of Molecular Genetics and Informatics at Rockefeller University, will be speaking at the Sackler Distinguished Lecture at the School of Clinical Medicine about the evolutionary competition of humans with microbial species.
Primary school rocket days
22 June 2004Primary school children from across Cambridgeshire have been designing and building their own rocket launchpads, with a little help from the University of Cambridge's Engineering Department.
Honorary Degrees 2004
18 June 2004The Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, HRH the Duke of Edinburgh, conferred honorary degrees at a traditional ceremony in the University's Senate House today (Monday 21 June 2004).
Year 12 girls get culturally literate at Newnham College
17 June 2004National stereotypes such as bowler-hatted English gents and pasta-cooking Italian mammas are nothing new; the Ancient Greeks had just as many preconceptions about their neighbours, as Year 12 girls have been discovering during a Cultural Literacy Day at Newnham College, Cambridge.
MRC announces funding towards a stem cell centre at Cambridge
17 June 2004Today the MRC announced funding of £1.5M towards a stem cell research centre of excellence at Cambridge.
Plants In Focus - centenary celebration
16 June 2004The Department of Plant Sciences continues its celebrations of 100 years on the Downing Site today (Thursday 17 June) with the unveiling of a plaque by Professor Alison Richard, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge.
Sexuality repositioned
15 June 2004A new book from the Cambridge Socio-Legal Group takes a radical look at sexual diversity and how our sexualities are being refashioned and repositioned.
