Dr Anna Rowlands, who is a member of both Girton College and St Edmund's College, will preach the University Sermon in Great St Mary's, the University Church, at 11.15 am on Sunday 3 February.
Towards the end of their training, student doctors have the chance to spend an elective spell working overseas, often in developing countries. Cambridge University medics, Daniel Jackson and Mohammad Razai spent two months in Botswana working in the eye clinics of government hospitals.
Eminent thinker and commentator Revd Dr John Polkinghorne, Fellow of the Royal Society, will be giving a public talk – titled A Destiny Beyond Death - tomorrow lunchtime at St Edmund’s College, Cambridge. It is part of a series organised by the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion. Here he gives an overview of his understanding of the relationship between what are generally considered to be two opposing schools of thought.
Social psychologist and best-selling author Dr Kevin Dutton, Research Fellow at the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, puts the recent riots under the microscope and looks at the way in which low self-esteem, a sense of isolation and an absence of positive role models lead to a volatile cocktail of emotions in young people.
His Royal Highness Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, has paid his final visit to the University before he stands down as Chancellor at the end of the month.
An unusual exhibition which looks at the fanciful expansion of King’s College through architectural sketches executed in a naive, intuitive idiom is now open in the King’s Arts Centre.
We live in a world where enhancement of abilities, appearance, and health is commonplace. We are familiar for example with the idea of enhancing our deteriorating eyesight with glasses and our immune systems with vaccinations; we might even consider orthodontic treatment to improve the appearance of our teeth.
Professor Peter Harrison, will be discussing religious influences in the early proceedings of the Royal Society in the Faraday Institute’s termly public lecture today, Thursday February 4 at Emmanuel College.
On Friday the newly-formed Afghanistan Cultural & Academic Studies Society (ACASS), based at St Edmund's College, will present its first ever event - a talk in which guest speaker Hamdullah Mohib will explore the challenges ordinary Afghan people face in 2009.
Science and religion meet again in the latest seminar organised by the Faraday Institute, University of Cambridge. In this seminar Dr Allan Chapman will discuss the significant link between faith and mental health.
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