Four students flew out to India in July as the first Cambridge participants in an international student internship programme launched last January by India's largest business conglomerate.
Downing College has elected one of their distinguished alumni, Aitzaz Ahsan, to an Honorary Fellowship.
The ranks of College School Liaison Officers (SLOs) have been augmented by some new faces over the past couple of months, as a growing number of Colleges make appointments and previous SLOs move on to pastures new at the end of their one- or two-year contracts.
Free tours of the University of Cambridge, offered as part of Open Cambridge, are booking up fast. Taking place on Saturday 13 September, Open Cambridge is a new initiative which will give hundreds of people the chance to see some hidden treasures and enjoy both buildings and gardens.
Research at the Gordon Laboratory is opening up an important new area for the surface engineering of materials.
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has signed its first agreement with the University to optimise the early clinical development of new GSK medicines for obesity and addictive disorders.
More than 30 countries around the world are lagging behind the University of Cambridge on the Olympics medal front.
They say that early to bed, early to rise, makes one healthy, wealthy and wise; but in Japan, it may also be feeding a nationalist revival not seen since World War II.
Ten Cambridge University graduates and one current student will represent Great Britain when the Olympic Games get under way in Beijing next week.
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