Cambridge gives aspiring artists chance to make their mark
02 October 2006Art –lovers who yearn to try their hand at drawing are to be given the ideal opportunity by the University of Cambridge this month.
Antarctic Day at Zoology Museum
13 September 2006Discover the world’s last great wilderness at the Museum of Zoology’s free Antarctic Day event on Saturday 23 September from 10.00 until 4.00.
Record Numbers At GEEMA Summer School
07 August 2006Record numbers of school pupils from ethnic minority backgrounds applied for places on the GEEMA Summer School which takes place at Newnham College this week (AUG 6-11). GEEMA, the Group to Encourage Ethnic Minority Applications to Cambridge, is part of the Widening Participation programme at the Cambridge Admissions Office.
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.
Botanic dinosaurs arrive at Cambridge Botanic Garden
17 July 2006Two specimens of one of the world’s oldest and rarest plants, dating back to the time of the dinosaurs, are now on view at the Botanic Garden in Cambridge.
Wild meerkats school their young
14 July 2006Older meerkats teach younger meerkats how to handle prey.
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.
Boost for University museums
13 April 2006Four of the museums in the University of Cambridge are to benefit from funding to enhance their internationally important collections.
Real Madagascar
26 August 2005If a talking zebra, giraffe and hippo seemed strange in the animated movie ’‘Madagascar’, then the real life furry inhabitants of the island in the Indian Ocean will seem truly bizarre.
Real Madagascar
05 August 2005If a talking zebra, giraffe and hippo seemed strange in the animated movie ’‘Madagascar’, then the real life furry inhabitants of the island in the Indian Ocean will seem truly bizarre.
