Closing the gender gap
11 February 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.
Telling tales
07 February 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).
Flowers at the Fitz
07 February 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.
Margaret Hodge visits Cambridge
04 February 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 January 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.
All roads lead to Roman Cambridge
29 January 2003Archaeologists from the University of Cambridge have uncovered a Roman road that once led to a major river crossing south of the City.
Powering up
24 January 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.
Any questions?
24 January 2003On Friday 31 January the Cambridge Union will host BBC Radio 4's 'Any Questions?', with Jonathon Dimbleby in the Chair.
Gene holds clue to cancer treatment
21 January 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.
Genome projects turn functional
17 January 2003The progress of functional genomics took a major step forward this week with the publication of the the first ever analysis of the function of the majority of genes in an animal.
