What transport for Cambridge?
25 September 2003Bold new ideas to tackle Cambridge’s transport problems will be unveiled by an award-winning research group today (25 September) in the University of Cambridge’s Senate House.
Developing Academics
15 September 2003A unique week-long conference of international experts in higher education is currently underway at Clare College (13-18 September). The aim of the meeting is to find solutions to challenges about academic staff development and to contribute to a new book.
Economics for the future
15 September 2003What is the future of economics? A major international conference celebrating the centenary of the Cambridge Economics degree is being held this week to discuss the future of the discipline and the challenges facing the global economy.
Statement in response to the Sunday Times University Guide 2003
15 September 2003We welcome the news that Cambridge once again comes top of the Sunday Times Good University Guide league table. We are pleased that the table recognises how much we offer students in terms of value for money, increasingly excellent facilities for study and research and the ‘community’ that college life offers.
Children and their families
15 September 2003A new book from the Cambridge Socio-Legal Group takes a radical new look at children’s relationships after divorce and in other family situations.
Venice in peril?
11 September 2003A gondola will appear on the River Cam this Sunday to mark the start of a major international meeting which will examine the environmental dangers facing Venice.
Targeting painful tendons
09 September 2003Tendon problems can be very painful and often have few effective treatments. A team of Cambridge researchers are hoping to find a more effective way of relieving the symptoms of tendon problems with the help of a research grant by the Arthritis Research Campaign (arc).
Music of the spheres
09 September 2003Scientists from the University of Cambridge have detected sound waves emanating from a black hole for the first time.
Genetic links found for mental disorders
08 September 2003Two major psychotic illnesses have been found to have a similar genetic cause. Schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, or manic depression affects about 2 per cent of the population.
New Master for Trinity
04 September 2003The new Master of Trinity College, Cambridge will be the Astronomer Royal Professor Sir Martin Rees, Royal Society Research Professor at the University of Cambridge. He succeeds the distinguished economist and Nobel Laureate Professor Amartya Sen, who will retire from office on 14 January 2004.
