The Head of Education at the Fitzwillam Museum and an eminent University astronomer have each been honoured with an OBE in the 2006 Queen’s Birthday Honours List.

The UK’s biggest provider of Helium is joining forces with a major user and Cambridge academics to sponsor a three year research project, the results of which are expected to reveal how much longer industry can rely on this increasingly scarce resource.

Four of the museums in the University of Cambridge are to benefit from funding to enhance their internationally important collections.

The University of Cambridge is showcasing some of its most exciting and cutting-edge research at the Royal Society’s Summer Science Exhibition with two exhibits.

Over 200 key players from the UK's building design and construction industries, the higher education sector plus several overseas delegates gathered in Cambridge on Thursday 8 July for a construction seminar.

A scientist in the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy has won national recognition for images created with an electron microscope.

Cambridge students swept the board in this year's prestigious Science, Engineering & Technology (SET) Student of the Year Awards, winning four of the 13 prizes.

At 11:00am on Saturday 15 July, staff of the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences will lead a behind-the-scenes tour of the museum's facilities.

This Friday 9 June, the newest laboratory at Cambridge University's Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy will host an open day.