Ounce of prevention, pound of cure
09 October 2012Working with humanitarian organisations in Haiti, Cambridge researchers have found that an information system they designed to track how regions recovered from disasters can also...
Dr Malcolm Sabin awarded IMA’s Gold Medal
09 October 2012Dr Malcolm Sabin has been awarded this year’s Gold Medal by the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA).
The war on terror is a war on women
08 October 2012In a lecture this Thursday (11 October), Professor Akbar Ahmed will draw attention to the plight of women in countries caught up in the war...
Climate chemistry and the tropics
05 October 2012New models are being developed to predict how changing land use in the tropics could affect future climate, air quality and crop production.
Give and take: the changing landscape of world aid
05 October 2012A book by Cambridge University geographer Dr Emma Mawdsley provides a major analysis of the ways in which the ‘rising powers’ of the BRICS and...
Modelling impacts of a warming world
03 October 2012A community-driven modelling effort aims to quantify one of the gravest of global uncertainties: the impact of global warming on the world’s food, health, vegetation...
Unlocking the agricultural economics of the 19th century
03 October 2012The Corn Returns – market data from the 19th century and beyond – represent a valuable resource for economic historians looking at the emergence of...
Care in the community
02 October 2012Historians have long recognised that the family were the chief carers of the mentally ill. A new study will investigate the emotional and economic consequences...
From Punnett to personal genomics: a century of genetics in Cambridge
02 October 2012The Balfour Chair of Genetics was established at Cambridge in 1912. As part of its centenary celebrations the Department of Genetics has produced a short...
Crash, crisis, calamity: system shock in a globalised world
01 October 2012Threats that cause supply chains and other networks to break down can cascade through today’s interconnected world of social, economic and financial interaction. New research...