Articles about 'Clare College'

Ten eminent individuals from the worlds of religion, business, science, music, history, philanthropy, politics and economics were presented to the Chancellor, HRH Prince Philip The Duke of Edinburgh at the 800th Anniversary Honorary Degree Congregation at the Senate House today.

The President of one of China’s leading universities will be giving a public lecture in Cambridge tonight entitled The Dynamic Growth of Research Universities in China.

Books by two leading Cambridge academics have been listed as contenders for the 2009 Samuel Johnson prize, an award named in honour of the 18th century lexicographer and widely seen as the UK’s most prestigious literary award for non-fiction.

The future development of one of China’s main cities will be the focus of an open conference this Saturday organised by the Chinese Students and Scholars of Cambridge (CSSA-CAM).

Sir Roger Norrington, one of the most distinguished British conductors of his generation, has been appointed as Principal Guest Conductor and Artistic Advisor of the Cambridge University Musial Society (CUMS) from the end of the 2008-09 academic year.

A come and sing event with one of the world’s best-known composers, a commemoration of Franz Joseph Haydn and a rare opportunity to hear a concert in the Senate House are among the offerings of Cambridge Cantat 800, a week-long celebration of Cambridge choirs, which kicks off this weekend (11 April).

The largest Cambridge University teachers' conference for ten years took place at the University earlier this week, with around 250 teachers from state schools and colleges around the country taking part.

One of the world’s leading experts on Modern American History has been appointed to the prestigious post of Chair of the Kennedy Memorial Trust.

A total of 530 pupils attended the Science Master Classes which took place across the University of Cambridge last week as part of Cambridge Science Festival. They came from 30 different schools within a 70-mile radius of Cambridge.

Vaccines could eventually be developed which could prevent the deaths hundreds of thousands of children a year from diarrhoea, according to an international expert in infectious disease.