A conservation leader in the making
13 October 2011Joy Juma, from Kenya, is among the first early-career conservation practitioners to take an innovative Masters programme at the University of Cambridge.
The meaning of emoticons
13 October 2011The emoticons used on Twitter are a language in themselves and are taking on new and often surprising meanings of their own, according to new...
The Creative Campus
13 October 2011Students ripped up their university exam papers in protest against established authority and in rejection of formal qualifications; a progressive sociologist assigned his students the...
Literature and Religion in Cheltenham
12 October 2011Professor David Ford, Regius Professor of Divinity and Director of the Cambridge Inter-faith Programme, reflects on the first project in an exciting new venture, the...
Golden touch makes low-temperature graphene production a reality
12 October 2011A method which more than halves the temperature at which high-quality graphene can be produced has been pioneered by researchers.
Tweeting disasters
12 October 2011Social networks like Twitter cannot help prevent disasters, but can quickly correct misinformation resulting from false rumours preventing possible further loss of lives, a leading...
Researchers develop new test for children with vision loss
11 October 2011Technology developed at the University of Cambridge to detect peripheral visual field loss in young children will enable the earlier detection of brain tumours, potentially...
The Case for Children’s Poetry
11 October 2011Morag Styles may be the only Professor of Children’s Poetry out there. Having recently taken up her new role, here she explains why poetry for...
Scientists find mechanism that leads to drug resistance in bacteria causing melioidosis
10 October 2011Researchers have identified a novel mechanism whereby the organism Burkholderia pseudomallei that causes melioidosis, a neglected tropical infectious disease, develops resistance to the standard antibiotic...
The Idea of the University
10 October 2011The idea of the university and the roles assigned to universities in the 21st Century will be the subject of a lecture series beginning in...