Giving Time
17 Feb 2003This week is Student Volunteer Week. Hundreds of student volunteers from the University of Cambridge are involved in projects throughout the local community, some of which are outlined below.
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Closing the gender gap
11 Feb 2003A 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.
Flowers at the Fitz
07 Feb 2003The 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.
Telling tales
07 Feb 2003The Iliad, Homer’s epic account of the Trojan War, is being introduced back into state primary schools by the Cambridge Schools Classics Project (CSCP).
Margaret Hodge visits Cambridge
04 Feb 2003Margaret 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.
Governance Results
31 Jan 2003Cambridge 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.
Any questions?
24 Jan 2003On Friday 31 January the Cambridge Union will host BBC Radio 4's 'Any Questions?', with Jonathon Dimbleby in the Chair.
Powering up
24 Jan 2003Only 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.
Gene holds clue to cancer treatment
21 Jan 2003An 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.
Online originals
17 Jan 2003This week will see the launch of an online palaeography course, which harnesses the power of electronic media to bring the glory of Cambridge manuscript collections to students learning how to read 16th and 17th century handwriting.
