Campaign launch in Hong Kong
05 April 2006More than 450 Cambridge alumni and friends attended last night’s Cambridge 800th Anniversary Campaign launch event at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Hong Kong.
Scientists Alzheimers research wins medal
03 April 2006A PhD student at the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research (CIMR), Richard Page, has been hailed as one of the UK’s top young scientists after...
£3.8 million gift for Conservation Biology
24 March 2006The Lisbet Rausing Charitable Fund has provided £3.8 million to endow in perpetuity a professorship in Conservation Biology at the University of Cambridge.
Physics flourishing at Cambridge
16 March 2006The Department of Physics Cavendish Laboratory has initiated a campaign to recruit an unprecedented number of academic posts to meet the growing department’s needs.
200 years of science publishing now online at University of Cambridge
08 March 2006First edition of ‘The Lancet’ among seven million historic articles newly available at click of a mouse.
Generations of astronomers survey the stars
16 February 2006A Cambridge PhD student is following in his great-great-grandfather's footsteps by helping to measure the speeds of up to one million stars passing near the...
‘Sugar-coated pill’ helps the medicine go down
02 February 2006Cambridge scientists have discovered a solution for controlling one of the world’s biggest environmental and ecological pests – the zebra mussel.
Doctor Of Medicine Prizes
31 January 2006Four doctors have received prizes from the University’s School of Clinical Medicine in recognition of outstanding work on their MD dissertations.