Amartya Sen speaks on India
14 May 2004Professor Amartya Sen, Nobel Laureate in Economics and until recently Master of Trinity College, will return to Cambridge on Monday to give the 2003-04 Leslie Stephen Lecture.
The Biggest Splash
14 May 2004Professor Julia Goodfellow CBE, Chief Executive of Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), will be speaking on Wednesday (May 19) at the annual ‘Women in Science, Engineering and Technology (WiSETI)’ lecture. Her talk is entitled ‘The Biggest Splash’.
Nano-bouquet
14 May 2004A photo competition was held at the Department of Engineering in February, inviting images that relate to research or teaching in the Department. The entries could be beautiful, fascinating, intriguing, amusing or all of these.
Supporting new approaches to drug discovery
12 May 2004On May 20-21, a workshop will be held at the University of Cambridge to encourage academics and industrial partners to support a multi-disciplinary new approach to drug discovery.
Elevated to the Peerage
11 May 2004Sir Alec Broers, Vice-Chancellor Emeritus has been conferred a life peer in a recent 10 Downing Street announcement, and appointed to the House of Lords.
Experiments across the Atlantic
10 May 2004Chemical engineering students in Cambridge are gaining a new experience this week, as they run experiments in controlling a heat exchanger - 3,279 miles away at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Writing Poetry: Manuscript Verse, 250 BC to 2000 AD
07 May 2004Cambridge University Library is opening a major exhibition of manuscript poetry from its collections today (May 10), with Poet Laureate, Professor Andrew Motion, speaking at the reception. The exhibition celebrates the writing of poetry, examining the inspirations for poems, the role of poetry in the University, and the ways in which poetical manuscripts have been studied to establish accurate texts and to understand the creative act. It draws together some of the Library’s greatest cultural treasures.
The season for volcanic eruptions
07 May 2004Researchers at the Department of Earth Sciences have found that volcanic eruptions in many parts of the world show a distinct seasonal pattern. The research was published in the Journal of Geophysical Research.
CMI researcher wins SET Award
04 May 2004Dr Athina Markaki, from Cambridge University’s Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy, has been awarded a 2004 SET (Science, Engineering and Technology) for Britain awards. It recognises her work arising from the CMI-funded project on ‘Developing an ultra-light stainless steel sheet material’. Dr Markaki conducted research into another possible application for the metal fibres, to connect prostheses to bone more effectively.
