Planting ideas: Botanic Garden opens access with living collections portal
02 October 2020A new web portal to Cambridge University Botanic Garden's entire living collection, 14,000 plants, aims to open access and fast-track urgent global research.
'Besom ling and teasel burrs': John Clare and botanising
20 September 2014A symposium taking place on Tuesday (23 September 2014) at Cambridge University Botanic Garden will unite artists, writers, scientists and literary scholars to look at the poet John Clare’s close engagement with the natural environment as a botanist as well as poet.
East Midlands teenagers win Pembroke and St. Catharine’s Colleges diary-writing competition
25 April 2014What’s it like to be a student at Cambridge? Every year Pembroke and St Catharine’s Colleges organise a three-day Easter Residential Science Masterclass for students from schools across East Anglia, the East Midlands and London. This year, for the first time, participants were invited to share their experiences in a diary-writing competition.
Voicing the Garden
16 December 2013The Botanic Garden’s year-long oral history project celebrates the launch of the project website with a special screening of archive and new films at the Cambridge Arts Picturehouse
Museum embarks on cultural exchange
25 November 2013From 11 – 14 November 2013 the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge, welcomed five students from the Torres Strait Islands. The secondary school pupils, from Waybeni Koey Ngurpay Mudh Tagai State College (Thursday Island Secondary campus) visited the museum as part of a cultural and educational exchange and to embark on their own historical research
Festival of Plants at Cambridge University Botanic Garden
16 May 2013A garden event with a difference, the Festival of Plants brings together horticulture and plant science in a day devoted to all things plant, from propagation to pollination, from seed to shopping!
Poet Laureate unveils new works at finale of Thresholds residencies
10 May 2013Thresholds – a unique residency project that matched ten of the UK’s best poets with ten of Cambridge University’s museums and collections - reaches its thrilling climax today when their commissioned works are published online for the first time.
Sainsbury Laboratory named Britain's best building
15 October 2012The Sainsbury Laboratory has been awarded the Stirling Prize for 2012.
Cambridge Ideas - Don't Eat the Plants
23 May 2011Are plants as defenceless as they appear?
Building the Future
04 January 2011Vice-Chancellor Professor Alison Richard on how new buildings and refurbishments across the University are helping research to flourish.
