In praise of openness | Vice-Chancellor's blog
08 December 2017I am very pleased to share the first in a series of regular posts collecting some of my thoughts on our University and its future.
“All this cancer talk is new to me, but I do know there isn’t a stage five”
08 December 2017Kate Gross was just 36 years old when she died of cancer. Researchers at Cambridge – including her husband – are trying to ensure that others receive their diagnoses early enough to stop their cancer.
Genetics study adds further evidence that education reduces risk of Alzheimer’s disease
07 December 2017The theory that education protects against Alzheimer’s disease has been given further weight by new research from the University of Cambridge, funded by the European Union. The study is published today in The BMJ.
Clean energy: experts outline how governments can successfully invest before it’s too late
06 December 2017Researchers distil twenty years of lessons from clean energy funding into six ‘guiding principles’. They argue that governments must eschew constant reinventions and grant scientists greater influence before our “window of opportunity” to avert climate change closes.
£85 million gift from the Dolby family to transform Cambridge science
06 December 2017The University of Cambridge has received an £85 million gift from the estate of Ray Dolby, founder of Dolby Laboratories and its world-renowned Dolby Noise Reduction, Dolby Surround, and successor audio signal processing technologies, which have revolutionised the audio quality of music, motion pictures, and television worldwide.
Cambridge fundraising campaign passes £1 billion milestone
06 December 2017The campaign for the University and Colleges has reached the £1 billion mark, enabling Cambridge to respond to the new and complex challenges facing the world.
Cambridge Academy of Therapeutic Sciences receives Wellcome funding to support translational research
05 December 2017The Cambridge Academy of Therapeutic Sciences (CATS) has been awarded £1million over two years by Wellcome as a part of a new scheme to find new ways to translate scientific discoveries into real world impact.
Pop-up mints and coins made from prayers
04 December 2017In the tumultuous upheaval of the English Civil War, Royalist castles under siege used ‘pop-up’ mints to make coins to pay their soldiers. A unique display at the Fitzwilliam Museum tells the centuries-old story of emergency currency made from gold, silver and compressed prayer books.
Sir Isaac Newton’s Cambridge papers added to UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register
01 December 2017The Cambridge papers of Sir Isaac Newton, including early drafts and Newton’s annotated copies of Principia Mathematica – a work that changed the history of science – have been added to UNESCO’s International Memory of the World Register.
'Populism' revealed as 2017 Word of the Year by Cambridge University Press
30 November 2017The word 'populism' has been announced as the Cambridge Dictionary 2017 Word of the Year.
