The University of Cambridge has received US$34.5 million from philanthropist K. Lisa Yang to support research aimed at improving the health and wellbeing of autistic people and their families. The gift is one of the largest ever philanthropic gifts for autism research to a UK university.
The University of Cambridge has conferred honorary doctorates on 8 distinguished individuals in recognition of their outstanding achievements in their respective fields. This is the highest accolade the University can bestow.
A pilot summit to support sustained student involvement in the life of the wider city took place at Cambridge’s Guildhall on Thursday 18 June.
National University of Singapore (NUS) Assistant Professor Xiaogang He wins the first Global Climate Research Prize (GCRP).
The founder of a children’s health centre from Botswana, an award-winning Nigerian author and a theoretical cosmologist are among those selected as Gates Cambridge Scholars in 2026.
Cambridge Men’s Blue Boat has won The Boat Race for the fourth time in a row.
Record-breaking donation of £190 million will enable new School to prepare tomorrow’s leaders to tackle the world’s biggest problems.
The UK’s most powerful quantum computer, which will accelerate research and discovery in quantum science, engineering, and a range of other applications, will be based at the University of Cambridge as part of a new partnership with the quantum technology company IonQ. The collaboration is the University’s largest-ever corporate research partnership.
The Vice-Chancellor, Professor Deborah Prentice, welcomed the Taoiseach (Prime Minister), Micheál Martin, to Cambridge to celebrate the appointment of the University’s first Childers Professor of Irish History.
Momentum is building behind the University of Cambridge’s groundbreaking partnership with The University of Manchester, with inaugural board meetings hosted across Manchester this week.
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