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Major investment in doctoral training announced

12 Mar 2024

Sixty-five Centres for Doctoral Training – which will train more than 4000 doctoral students across the UK – have been announced by Science...

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Ukrainian students depart

16 Sep 2022

The Ukrainian medical students who received essential training at Cambridge University over the summer will take the specialist skills they have...

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How mass testing helped limit the spread of COVID-19 at the University of Cambridge

01 Jun 2021

A combination of testing programmes for staff and students, infection control measures and genomic surveillance helped reduce the number of cases of...

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Mindfulness training reduces stress during exam time

18 Dec 2017

Mindfulness training can help support students at risk of mental health problems, concludes a randomised controlled trial carried out by researchers...

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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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African plant scientists develop new skills in Cambridge to tackle problems at home

05 Apr 2017

Lab training workshop and biotech conference, organised by second year Ph.D. student and Gates Scholar, aim to build African research capacity in...

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UK’s top student hackers compete for cyber security

22 Apr 2016

Students from the UK’s top cyber security universities will compete in Cambridge this weekend, in part to address the country’s looming cyber...

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Shooting in the field: capturing life as it’s lived

14 Aug 2013

A student photography competition showcases some of the stunning visuals that result from modern Social Anthropology research

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Andy Leonard, Vice President BP Cambridge, with some of the first BP supported Cambridge-MIT exchange students at the launch of the extension of the programme to non-Engineers from Cambridge University.

Cambridge extends MIT exchange partnership

10 Oct 2012

An extension to the University of Cambridge’s exchange programme with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has been announced, enabling more...

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A nice pint of Tugboat's house red and Punt

Legacies of the legless

25 Oct 2011

How student bingeing gave birth to modern British booze culture.

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