The winning entries of the 2012 Photography Competition at the Department of Engineering, sponsored by Carl Zeiss, provide a stunning visual insight into the ways in which engineering makes a vital contribution to our lives.
Six Cambridge researchers are among the 44 new Fellows announced by the Royal Society this week.
His Royal Highness Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, paid his final visit to the University before he stood down as Chancellor.
A leading Indian conservation expert has visited the University to work with a Cambridge counterpart and give a public lecture, thanks to the Cambridge Hamied Visiting Lectureship Scheme.
Cambridge Enterprise, the University's commercialisation office, has announced that Dr Mike Lynch, one of Britain's most successful technology entrepreneurs, has joined its Board of Directors.
Two senior Cambridge academics have recently returned from lecture tours in India thanks to a newly-launched Scheme supported by distinguished alumnus Dr Yusuf Hamied (pictured).
Music lovers are invited to a free public performance of classical music composed by former Director of Music at King’s College, Sir Philip Ledger at Christ’s College on Wednesday, 17 February.
An exciting play that explores the life of the controversial Cambridge character, and arguably the greatest scientist of his era, Sir Isaac Newton, is to be performed as part of the University’s 800th anniversary celebrations.
"Fame", John Milton once wrote, "is no plant that grows on mortal soil". Even the great poet himself, however, might have struggled to imagine the global scale on which his achievements are being celebrated four centuries later.
A study of how the Victorians considered transforming the British Empire into a “Greater Britain”, written by a Cambridge academic, has been announced as the joint winner of the 2008 Whitfield Book Prize.
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