Surreal sculpture elbows out Henry Moore
02 March 2007A surreal sculpture in which two folded arms appear to have emerged from a flat wall is being installed in the grounds of a Cambridge College.
Professor Malcolm Bowie
01 February 2007A funeral ceremony was held for the late Professor Malcolm Bowie on 7 February 2007 in the West Chapel, Cambridge Crematorium, Huntingdon Road.
Asian Development Bank President to lecture in Cambridge
25 January 2007The President of the Asian Development Bank, Haruhiko Kuroda, is to address the impact of Chinese and Indian economic growth at a public lecture hosted by Clare College.
The return of Ratty?
21 December 2006Water Vole burrows found on a ditch bank on Cambridge’s historic Backs mean this endangered species could be re-introduced to the area.
Professor Kurt Lipstein (1909 - 2006)
13 December 2006The funeral was held in Cambridge of Professor Kurt Lipstein, Fellow of Clare College since 1956 and a distinguished member of the Law Faculty, who died in December 2006 at the age of 97.
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.
Peterborough pupils say Cambridge is “modern and friendly”
19 October 2006“Lots of bikes and bright green grass”, “posh and sophisticated”, “creepy and haunted”. These were some of the first impressions of Cambridge from year-9 pupils from a Peterborough secondary school.
Researchers appeal for new regulations to save coral reefs from live fish trade
04 August 2006Researchers are calling for tighter controls on the live reef fish trade, a growing threat to coral reefs, in letters to the international journal Science.
Honorary Degrees 2006
03 July 2006The Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, HRH The Duke of Edinburgh was in Cambridge last week to confer Honorary Degrees.
Hurricane Katrina: Historians as First Responders
24 May 2006The political and historical implications of one of the worst disasters to strike the United States, Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent flooding of New Orleans, are the focus of a lecture series Thursday (today) and Friday at the Faculty of History.
