Cambridge Professor receives prestigious engineering award
18 June 2007Professor Gehan Amaratunga has been presented with the Royal Academy of Engineering's Silver Medal – one of the highest honours an engineer in the UK can receive.
Agreement strengthens links with Singapore
11 May 2007The Vice-Chancellor welcomed senior representatives from the National University of Singapore (NUS) to Cambridge this week.
Hawks host prostate cancer charity dinner
28 February 2007A fundraiser in aid of The Prostate Cancer Charity is to be held at King's College Great Hall on Saturday, 10 March. The dinner, hosted by the Hawks' Club, will feature the entertaining Sandy Strang as speaker.
Environmental strain is influencing “new age” in international affairs
13 February 2007One of Britain's most eminent scientists will describe how the growing strain on the Earth's natural resources is dictating a new age in international affairs at a lecture in Cambridge on 21 February.
Tate too: Pedigree sculpture comes to Cambridge
17 January 2007Previously displayed in the Tate Britain’s Sculpture Court, ’‘Beast Alerted 1’ a metallic work by one of Britain’s greatest sculptors is now on public view at Churchill College Cambridge.
Hans Blix to speak on weapons of mass destruction and the Iraq war at Cambridge
15 November 2006Dr Hans Blix, the former UN weapons inspector who led the hunt for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, will speak on “Truth, Lies and WMDs” at a conference in Cambridge later this month.
Students launch project to send rocket into space for under £1,000
15 September 2006A group of students from the University of Cambridge who plan on launching a rocket into space for less than £1,000 have taken the first steps towards achieving their ambitious goal.
Bridge The Gap
11 September 2006Hundreds of walkers made the most of a gloriously sunny day to tour the colleges of Cambridge on Sunday in the annual Bridge The Gap walk.
Record Numbers At GEEMA Summer School
07 August 2006Record numbers of school pupils from ethnic minority backgrounds applied for places on the GEEMA Summer School which takes place at Newnham College this week (AUG 6-11). GEEMA, the Group to Encourage Ethnic Minority Applications to Cambridge, is part of the Widening Participation programme at the Cambridge Admissions Office.
“The richness of our world”
05 July 2006At a garden party on Senate House Lawn following the Honorary Degrees congregation, Professor Njabulo Ndebele, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Town, gave the following speech on behalf of his fellow graduands in reply to the Chancellor’s Toast.
