The University of Cambridge is to be one of the five universities that will lead the new Alan Turing Institute, announced the Rt Hon Dr Vince Cable, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills today.
The ‘monuments men’ were a multinational unit of the Allied Forces who operated behind enemy lines during the Second World War to safeguard artistic and cultural treasures. Among them was historian Ronald Balfour, Fellow of King’s College, who lost his life 69 years ago.
On November 1 Melvyn Bragg will talk about his book Grace and Mary at the Festival of Ideas. The novel is based on Bragg’s own bitter-sweet experience of his mother’s dementia. Looking back across three generations, it raises fundamental questions about social attitudes and how they shape our lives. Three people discuss some of the big challenges that face us.
The Sainsbury Laboratory has been awarded the Stirling Prize for 2012.
Each year hundreds of people queue day and night in the cold to experience the magic of the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols in King's College Chapel. At the head of the queue this year is Tim Wotherspoon who lives in Cottenham and studied maths at Cambridge. He is spending five nights on a camp bed on the cobbles to ensure his seat on Christmas Eve.
The Times newspaper has named 13 Cambridge academics in their inaugural list of the 100 most important contemporary figures in British science. The first ranking of contemporary figures in British science was released today in Eureka, The Times’ monthly science magazine.
When Joe Novelli (pictured) was encouraged by his physics teacher at Stanborough School in Welwyn Garden City to apply for the Senior Physics Challenge, an intensive four-day residential at Cambridge University, he didn’t know what to expect.
The Chancellor, His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh, visited the University yesterday to visit two colleges and preside over the 2010 Honorary Degree Congregation.
The University of Cambridge has today submitted nominations to the Regent House for the conferment of honorary degrees in June 2010. Eight distinguished individuals are nominated.
A new book about the University, Reflections on Cambridge, which is being launched today, explores the culture, the customs, the colleges and the politics of Cambridge from an anthropological as well as historical standpoint.
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