More than 1000 University staff will swell the crowd at Cambridge United on Thursday evening as the city’s football team take on rivals Oxford United, 7.45pm kick-off.
Advancing by degrees, an exhibition capturing 800 years of university development, learning and student life, opens at Cambridge University Library tomorrow as part of the university’s 800th Anniversary celebrations.
Cambridge University Boat Club President Henry Pelly issued the official Challenge, to race on The Thames in just 19 weeks’ time, to his Oxford counterpart Colin Smith at a reception at the Portland Gallery in London and it was promptly accepted.
Wordsworth used them for scribbling redrafts each time his poems were published, Da Vinci’s contained imagined conversations between the figures in his paintings, while Kafka wanted his to be burned after his death.
Nomura, the pre-eminent Asia-based investment bank, today announced it will be the exclusive sponsor of the annual Cambridge v Oxford Varsity Rugby Match supporting both the men's and women's events.
Cambridge and Oxford Universities sealed the Prentice Cup as their joint Men’s tennis team overcame their Harvard-Yale counterparts.
A Cambridge University invention which was kept a closely-guarded secret because of the hidden advantage it offered to a Formula 1 racing team is finally being made available for widespread use.
Seven British Blues helped Team GB top the Olympic medal table at the Beijing Games and record the country’s best results in the sport since 1908.
Cambridge University graduate Emma Pooley stormed to Olympic Silver in Beijing yesterday during the Cycling Time Trial.
The Olympic Games may be just around the corner – with one current Cambridge University student and nine graduates competing in Beijing - but it’s already been a year of sporting success for the University.
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