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21 November 2005Nearly 1,000 alumni attended the launch of the Cambridge 800th Anniversary Campaign in the United States.
Moving ahead with the Toyota way
21 November 2005Mr Yoshio Ishizaka, Senior Advisor to the Board of the Toyota Motor Corporation, will be discussing the future of the automotive industry in the next CMI Distinguished Lecture at 5pm, today (Tuesday, 22nd November 2005) at the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge.
Cambridge leadership seminar
18 November 2005There was an excited buzz around Judge Business School on the evening of November 17 as students, alumni and staff filled the lecture theatre ready for the Cambridge Leadership Seminar given by Ian Davis, Worldwide Managing Director, McKinsey and Company.
Maths project wins Queen’s Anniversary prize
18 November 2005The University of Cambridge has been awarded its third Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education; it was announced yesterday that the Millennium Mathematics Project, based at the University of Cambridge, has been awarded the 2005 Prize for Higher and Further Education.
Poet laureate reads at Clare College tonight
17 November 2005Andrew Motion reads T. S. Eliot’s ’‘Little Gidding’ at Clare College in support of the community at Little Gidding
Academics awarded Philip Leverhulme Prize
17 November 2005Dr Tim Lewens from the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Dr Clemens Kaminski of the Department of Chemical Engineering and Dr Andrea Ferrari from the Department of Engineering have been awarded the 2005 Philip Leverhulme Prize.
Mobile phone-like device to detect cancer and avian flu
17 November 2005Cambridge scientists have received funding to create a cheap, portable device that could detect avian flu and even prevent bioterrorism, using sensors a tenth the size of a grain of salt
Thoroughbred genes
17 November 2005Researchers from the University of Cambridge and the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) in London are studying the bones of history’s greatest Thoroughbred racehorses to better understand what made the horses so unique. Some of the most famous horses that will be studied include Eclipse, Hyperion, Hermit and St. Simon.
New Director at CRASSH
16 November 2005Professor Mary Jacobus, Professor of English at the University of Cambridge, is to take up the post of Director of the Centre of Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) in January 2006.
Factors that influence whether children will disclose abuse
16 November 2005A major study on child abuse has been published in the Journal ’‘Child Abuse and Neglect’.
