Bill Gates awarded an honorary Knighthood

26 January 2004
Bill Gates, Chairman and founder of Microsoft Corporation, has been awarded an honorary Knighthood by Her Majesty the Queen. The honorary KBE is in recognition of his outstanding contribution to enterprise, employment, education and the voluntary sector in the UK.
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Proposed primate research centre

26 January 2004
Statement from Professor Tony Minson, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for the University of Cambridge, on the University’s decision to discontinue its planned primate research centre for financial reasons:
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Cancer gene reveals the key to a cure

21 January 2004
Dr Feng Tang Yang from the Department of Clinical Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge, and scientists at the Babraham Institute have discovered that a tiny change in a protein involved in cell survival is responsible for abnormal cell activity in the early stages of cancer.
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Europe: Past, Present and Future

21 January 2004
The problems arising from Europe's troubled history will be the subject of the fourth seminar in the ‘Future of Europe’ series, taking place at the University of Cambridge’s Faculty of Law until 25 February 2004.
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Top RHS Award for Cambridge gardening guru

19 January 2004
Professor David Ingram OBE, Cambridge botanist and horticulturist has been awarded the Royal Horticultural Society's (RHS) Victoria Medal of Honour (VMH), the highest accolade in the British gardening world.
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Evidence - 2004 Darwin Lectures begin

16 January 2004
Today the distinguished historian Professor Carlo Ginzburg, will launch the annual Darwin Lecture series, which this year focuses on the theme of evidence. His talk is entitled Representing the enemy: historical evidence and its ambiguities.
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First supernova companion star found

15 January 2004
Cambridge astronomers leading a joint European/University of Hawaii research team has for the first time observed a stellar 'survivor' to emerge from a double star system involving an exploded supernova. Supernovae are some of the most significant sources of chemical elements in the Universe, and they are at the heart of our understanding of the evolution of galaxies.
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The future of funding

13 January 2004
Writing in The Guardian today the Vice-Chancellor Professor Alison Richard has expressed her concerns about some of the objections being raised to the government's proposals on the funding of higher education.
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Lecture theatre re-opens

12 January 2004
The largest scientific lecture theatre in Cambridge has been fully refurbished and it was officially re-opened yesterday (Monday 12 January) as part of a prestigious scientific gathering.
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Planet-sized solutions for global warming

09 January 2004
Big ideas for reducing the impacts of climate change are being evaluated by an international line-up of leading scientists from the US, mainland Europe and the UK at a symposium in Cambridge this week. The meeting is being jointly hosted by the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research and the Cambridge-MIT Institute.
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