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Harriet Loffler in front of painting

The curator reframing our experiences of art

17 May 2024

“Art doesn’t need to be in an elaborate frame on the wall of a gallery,” says Harriet Loffler, curator of The Women’s Art Collection at Murray...

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Ata Allah Elibizanti

Gates Cambridge: Class of 2024

17 Apr 2024

This year’s Gates Cambridge cohort comprises 75 new scholars, studying areas from the impact of climate change on tropical biodiversity to how the...

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Left to right: Manish Chhowalla, Nic Lane, Erwin Reisner

Three Cambridge researchers awarded Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies

14 Mar 2024

Three Cambridge researchers – Professors Manish Chhowalla, Nic Lane and Erwin Reisner – have each been awarded a Royal Academy of Engineering Chair...

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Professor Hiranya Peiris with the Northumberland Telescope at the Institute of Astronomy.

The cosmologist solving questions at the boundary of our understanding

13 Nov 2023

Hiranya Peiris is Cambridge’s new Professor of Astrophysics (1909). She discusses being inspired by Stephen Hawking, the unknown space before you...

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Professor Patrick Chinnery

Leading Cambridge neuroscientist appointed as Executive Chair of Medical Research Council

22 Aug 2023

Professor Patrick Chinnery, Head of the Department of Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Cambridge, has been appointed as the new Executive...

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King Charles smiling with a group of Cambridge students

King's Birthday Honours 2023

17 Jun 2023

Leaders in fields from economics to history are among the Cambridge academics recognised in the King's first birthday honours list.

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Student in mountains

Gates Cambridge Class of 2023

13 Apr 2023

77 new Gates Cambridge Scholars have been selected to pursue their postgraduate studies at the University of Cambridge from this autumn.

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Mathelinda Nabugodi

The poetry scholar, the Black Atlantic and the Trembling Hand

13 Mar 2023

Mathelinda Nabugodi investigates the impact of colonialism and the slave trade on Romantic poets. Her research has taken her into the archives with...

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Mary Beard

The Classicist who wants the ancient world to have a radical future

22 Feb 2023

Mary Beard says the Greeks and Romans have more to say about modern society than we might think. A new set of films, aimed at teenagers whose schools...

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Dara McAnulty

The naturalist with autism named on the 2023 New Year Honours

30 Jan 2023

Dara McAnulty is an award-winning author and environmental campaigner. In December 2022 he was awarded a BEM for services to nature and the autistic...

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Silvia Vignolini (left), Rachel Oliver (right)

Two Cambridge researchers awarded Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies

01 Dec 2022

Professor Rachel Oliver and Professor Silvia Vignolini from the University of Cambridge have been awarded a Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in...

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Mussels

Mussel memory

28 Nov 2022

How fresh-water mussels and a stretch of the River Thames connected two postgraduate scientists separated by over half a century.

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