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Ripples in water

Testing the water

30 May 2024

Industry placements for PhD students can be hugely beneficial for all concerned. We hear from two former students and the companies they worked for.

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The unschooled anthropologist working with Q'eqchi' weavers

24 Sep 2019

Living for ten months with Q’eqchi’ weavers in the Alta Verapaz of Guatemala, PhD student Callie Vandewiele watched and listened as the women crafted...

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Cambridge receives new funding to support PhD students in science and engineering

04 Feb 2019

The University of Cambridge has received new government and industrial funding to support at least 350 PhD students over the next eight years, via...

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Jerelle Joseph, PhD in computational chemistry at Churchill College (Gates Scholar)

Postgraduate Open Day 2017 - meet our postgrads

03 Nov 2017

Nearly 10,000 postgraduate students from more than 250 countries, working in countless different subject areas, contribute to Cambridge’s thriving...

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Step inside the mind of the young Stephen Hawking as his PhD thesis goes online for first time

23 Oct 2017

Stephen Hawking’s PhD thesis, ‘ Properties of expanding universes’ , has been made freely available to anyone, anywhere in the world, after being...

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Astrazeneca and Cambridge announce new joint PhD and clinical research scholarships

30 Jun 2015

AstraZeneca and the University of Cambridge today announced three new joint schemes to support more than 80 PhD scholarships and eight clinical...

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