25 years of IVF
28 July 2003Louise Brown, a 25 year old postal worker from Bristol was in Cambridge on Saturday (25 July) to celebrate her birthday, sharing it with over 1,000 other guests.
Unique piece of hockey heritage
24 July 2003After 90 years shut away in an English attic, a unique piece of history has been presented to the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto, Canada by the University of Cambridge. The 1910 solid silver cup commemorates a hockey game played by age-old rivals Cambridge and Oxford on a lake in the Swiss Alps. Cambridge Coach, Bill Harris, presented the award with current Captain Andrew Ashcroft.
Students visit Baltic states
22 July 2003Many Eastern European countries are poised to join the European Union in 2004, and this will have a significant impact on UK businesses. A team of 24 Master's graduates of the Department of Manufacturing Engineering have returned from a visit to the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to see these opportunities at first hand. They presented their findings last week in a symposium and are also publishing a report.
Mike Atherton swaps bat for trowel in Cambridge
16 July 2003Former England Cricket captain and Cambridge graduate Mike Atherton will be back in Cambridge today (Friday 18 July) to mark the beginning of construction work on a new indoor cricket school and a new College building at Fenner’s cricket ground.
Response to Lambert Report
15 July 2003The government review of the relationship between universities and business has issued its interim report. Media coverage of the report has focused on its calls for reform of governance at Oxford and Cambridge.
A darker shade of Pepys
11 July 2003Historians and other scholars have gathered in Cambridge for a conference which will explore one of the great hidden treasures of British history: a three-volume, 1,500 page diary by a puritan priest turned political journalist.
Questioning collections
10 July 2003What is the purpose and future of university collections? These issues were discussed by an international meeting of academics and museum staff at a conference held at Peterhouse, Cambridge this week.
Clinical School renews sponsorship agreement
08 July 2003Leading pharmaceuticals company Merck Sharp & Dohme (MSD) have recently entered into a new educational sponsorship agreement to give a further £1.5m to the University to support the training of future neuroscientists at Cambridge.
Questioning collections
04 July 2003What is the purpose and future of university collections? These issues were discussed by an international meeting of academics and museum staff at a conference held at Peterhouse, Cambridge this week.
The rise and fall of the Celtic language
03 July 2003New research suggests that the Celtic language became a distinct language and was introduced to the British Isles much earlier than originally believed. Dr Peter Forster at the Molecular Genetics Laboratory and Dr Alfred Toth at the University of Zurich have used Celtic language inscriptions to reconstruct the history of the language and its position in the Indo-European family of languages.
