New Year Honours
03 Jan 2003Several members of the University were recognised in the New Year Honours list for 2002.
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Positive Action Fair
15 Nov 2002The exhibitor list is now complete for the Positive Action Fair, to be held tomorrow (19 November 2002) at the University Centre, from 9am to 6pm. The Fair will showcase the many organisations working towards equality for all under-represented groups within the University, including women, ethnic minorities and disabled people.
New statement on top-up fees
14 Nov 2002The Cambridge University Council discussed possible national changes to university fee arrangements at its meeting on Monday 11 November 2002. The Council considered a paper by Paul Lewis, President of Cambridge University Students Union (CUSU), who is an elected student member of the Council.
Rise and shine
06 Nov 2002Medication introduced to help people stay awake, has wider implications than was first thought. Modafinil appears to improve certain mental abilities, or cognitive functioning, without the side effects commonly experienced with mental stimulants, like amphetamine.
Caesarean delivery of twins may prevent deaths
31 Oct 2002Second twins born at term are at higher risk of death due to complications during labour and delivery than first twins, but planned caesarean section may prevent such deaths, concludes a study by Cambridge academics in this week's British Medical Journal.
New wing for Archives Centre
30 Oct 2002Yesterday (Wednesday 30 October 2002) former Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher opened the new wing of the Churchill Archives Centre at Churchill College, Cambridge.
Cambridge's past uncovered
25 Oct 2002Cambridge archaeologists have just started excavation on the Addenbrooke's site where the University's new cancer research centre is to be built. They have found evidence of a major late Iron Age/early Roman settlement which spans the Roman Conquest of the mid first century AD.
Statement on top-up fees
25 Oct 2002The University of Cambridge has issued the following statement in response to speculation that it is planning to introduce top-up fees.
New solution to a smelly problem
23 Oct 2002A team of researchers at the Department of Chemical Engineering has commissioned new equipment for producing renewable energy from waste materials.
A constitution for Europe?
18 Oct 2002A team of academic lawyers from the University of Cambridge has prepared a draft constitutional treaty for the European Union. The document was sponsored by the UK government and submitted by them to the Convention on the Future of Europe, the body which is undertaking a fundamental re-examination of the institutional architecture of the European Union.
