As hundreds of staff and students prepare to entertain and engage audiences across Cambridge in this year’s Festival of Ideas, we discover how – and why – the University finds creative and meaningful ways to reach out.
Six Cambridge Academics have been elected to the Academy of Medical Sciences, in recognition of their contribution to the advancement of medical science.
Nominations are being sought for a new publication of women’s stories across the University that hopes to share knowledge and inspire female staff.
A new book by Professor Emma Wilson from the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages looks at how death is addressed through modern artworks based in visual media.
On 14 March, academics and members of the public gathered at Emmanuel College to hear a panel of distinguished speakers discuss their personal visions of future healthcare in an event sponsored by the Science AAAS as part of the Cambridge Science Festival.
Interdisciplinary research has to be the answer when it comes to understanding the Victorians, writes Professor Simon Goldhill, one of the researchers involved in a £1.2 million project on Victorian Britain that is reaching the end of its five-year programme.
Latin-lovers, Greek fanatics and anyone with a passing interest in the ancient world will have a unique opportunity to put their questions to the experts at two major public debates in Cambridge this summer.
Fundamental research on plant development at the Sainsbury Laboratory will help in the future design of optimal crops.
Professor Jane Clarke’s laboratory was one of the first in the world to combine atomic force microscopy with protein engineering to ‘visualise’ the mechanical unfolding of a single protein at the molecular level.
The British Academy has today announced the scholars elected for this year’s Fellowships in recognition of their contribution to the humanities and social sciences.
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