Articles about 'Clare Hall'

A delegation of Cambridge academics, led by the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, is attending the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, this week.

Researchers believe findings could help the many individuals for whom anti-depressants offer little or no relief

For much of the 20th century, health professionals were locked in debate about one possible cause of paralytic polio. Some argued that the viral infection could be provoked by medical interventions; others hotly contested this theory. Historian Dr Stephen Mawdsley looks at the unfolding story of polio provocation.

At a ceremony in the University’s Council Room last week Luis Juste, Director of Santander Universities UK, and Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, signed a renewal of the agreement by which Santander supports various student and research activities in Cambridge.

A new series of public lectures organised by the Department of East Asian Studies, will begin this week.

Professor Susan J. Smith, former Professor of Geography and a Director of the Institute of Advanced Study at Durham University and current Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge, will give this year's Tanner Lectures this evening.

The Cambridge Commonwealth Trust and the Cambridge Overseas Trust are delighted to announce that His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales has agreed to become Patron of the Trusts, when his term as Chairman expires at the end of September 2010.

A British historian of 20th-century Germany, whose work has chiefly focused on the period of the Third Reich, will deliver the annual Clare Hall Ashby Lecture in Cambridge on Tuesday 11 May.

An exhibition featuring Tim Head's latest work opens from tomorrow at Kettle's Yard.
 

Focussing too much on the present and not using past experience to make decisions could be linked to suicide in elderly depressed adults, researchers from Cambridge and Pittsburgh have found.