Bottisham pupils pick-up prizes at Nanoscience Centre
04 July 2008Winners of an art competition based on images from the microscopic world of nanotechnology were at Cambridge University's Nanoscience Centre on Friday to receive their prizes.
Looking beyond the history and prestige to Cambridge today
04 July 2008“When you look around Cambridge you see signs of history and prestige, and think about the famous people who have worked here, and you go wow! Then you look again and see that the students all around you are just like you, not posh or all from public school.”
Schools get valuable lesson on disease dynamics
04 July 2008Teenagers from two schools visited the Centre for Mathematical Sciences this week to show how they'd unearthed valuable data on disease dynamics during a nine-month research initiative organised by the Millennium Mathematics Project in partnership with the Disease Dynamics Research Group, and funded by the Wellcome Trust.
Jack, Emerald and Eve (and 47 others) get a taste of Cambridge
04 July 2008Jack Cadman goes to a comprehensive in Loughton and wants to study economics; Emerald Sherlock-Mold is a pupil at a large state school in Sheffield and has a talent for languages; Eve Annable attends a Further Education college in Birkenhead and is passionate about English.
“Diseases of development” could widen global poverty gap
04 July 2008The developing world is being infested by Western-style social health problems such as obesity and “couch-potato” living, which could ultimately widen the global gap between rich and poor, new research suggests.
Cambridge science on show at the Royal Society
03 July 2008Simple, non-invasive tools to measure brain function, currently being used by Cambridge University scientists, are on show this week at the Royal Society's Summer Science event.
Award for study of Victorians’ grandiose imperial ideas
03 July 2008A study of how the Victorians considered transforming the British Empire into a “Greater Britain”, written by a Cambridge academic, has been announced as the joint winner of the 2008 Whitfield Book Prize.
Darwinian doodles scoop national prize
03 July 2008A member of staff at Cambridge University's Department of Earth Sciences has won a national competition with his image of Charles Darwin.
Year-12 students get to grips with some challenging physics
03 July 2008Rahul Ravindran, 17, and Andrew Robertson, 16, were up till 2 am last night sitting in a common room at Corpus Christi College — not partying but tackling some tricky physics questions, together with two other sixth-formers.
University of Cambridge Open Days to welcome thousands of students
02 July 2008Thousands of prospective applicants and their families will be attending the University of Cambridge Open Days on Thursday and Friday this week.
