Motherline to the motherland

13 February 2003
The ancestors of British African Caribbeans were deprived of their history as well as their freedom when they were packed into slave ships and transported over the Atlantic to the plantations of the Caribbean. Now a groundbreaking genetic investigation by scientists at Cambridge, Leicester and Penn State University, has enabled 229 British African Caribbeans to learn more about their ancestral heritage.
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Closing the gender gap

11 February 2003
A new report on the academic performance of students at Cambridge is published today. The report confirms that women achieve less Firsts than men and seeks to explain the gender gap.
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Telling tales

07 February 2003
The Iliad, Homer’s epic account of the Trojan War, is being introduced back into state primary schools by the Cambridge Schools Classics Project (CSCP).
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Flowers at the Fitz

07 February 2003
The Fitzwilliam Museum has gained a major new acquisition - Roelandt Savery's oil painting of a Still life with flowers in a glass berkemeyer with a lizard, frog and dragonfly on a ledge. The painting, which is on copper, is dated 1637 and is the last known painting by Savery. At this time in his career he had moved from Prague, where he had been Court Painter to Rudolf II, and was living in Utrecht.
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Margaret Hodge visits Cambridge

04 February 2003
Margaret Hodge MBE MP, Minister of State for Lifelong Learning and Higher Education, visited the University today (Tuesday 4 February) to officially open the University's Disability Resource Centre. During her visit to the Centre's new premises at Keynes House in Trumpington Street she met the Centre's staff and some of its student users.
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Governance Results

31 January 2003
Cambridge is in the process of reviewing its governance, and has spent the last year conducting an extensive internal consultation with the academic community, leading to a series of ballots on changes proposed by the University Council.
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Any questions?

24 January 2003
On Friday 31 January the Cambridge Union will host BBC Radio 4's 'Any Questions?', with Jonathon Dimbleby in the Chair.
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Powering up

24 January 2003
Only weeks after the Cambridge University spin-out company Biotica announced the completion of a $5M round of financing, another Cambridge spin-out has now been tipped to become a global leader in the field of power electronics, following a highly successful round of fundraising worth £3.9m.
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Gene holds clue to cancer treatment

21 January 2003
An intriguing clue as to why some tumours respond less well than others to an important class of anti-cancer drugs has been uncovered by scientists at the University's MRC Cancer Cell Unit.
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