Emmanuel Law Fellow calls for more ethnic minority applicants
27 June 2008Dr Oke Odudu, a Law Fellow at Emmanuel College, is urging more pupils from ethnic minorities to aim high and apply to top universities.
Teachers gather in Cambridge to learn more about admissions
27 June 2008Teachers from all over the country spent two days at Cambridge earlier this week at a conference on student life at Cambridge, organised and hosted by Fitzwilliam College, Murray Edwards College (New Hall) and Sidney Sussex College.
Funding for a new world-class biomedical research laboratory confirmed
26 June 2008A major new flagship home for the Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) will be built next to Addenbrooke's Hospital on the newly established Cambridge Biomedical Campus.
Genetic profiling for breast cancer on the horizon
26 June 2008Cambridge scientists have shown it may soon be possible to offer women a genetic test to assess their risk of breast cancer which could aid early diagnosis for those at high risk of the disease.
Honorary Degrees 2008
23 June 2008The Chancellor of the University, His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh, conferred Honorary Doctorates this afternoon upon five eminent individuals from the worlds of science, religion and music.
Former Liberal Democrat leader to inaugurate conference at Cambridge
20 June 2008Lord Ashdown KBE, the former leader of the Liberal Democrat party and the past International Communities' High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina will be giving an inaugural lecture entitled “After Iraq - Shall We Ever Intervene Again?" on the evening of Wednesday 25 June 2008.
Professor Sir Roger Penrose gives second Andrew Chamblin Memorial Lecture
20 June 2008Professor Sir Roger Penrose, Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford will give the second Andrew Chamblin Memorial Lecture on Friday 27 June.
Increasing numbers of pupils benefit from summer schools at Cambridge
20 June 2008Hundreds of pupils, the majority of them from "non-traditional" backgrounds, will benefit from challenging Summer Schools run by Cambridge Admissions Office and individual Colleges in the next two months.
International scholars to attend first ever pan-scholarship symposium
19 June 2008Leading international scholars will come together for the first ever pan-scholarship symposium next week.
Revd Prof Henry Chadwick (1920-2008)
19 June 2008The University announced the death of former Master of Peterhouse and Fellow of Trinity College Reverend Professor Henry Chadwick, FBE, KBE, who died on Tuesday 17 June 2008 at the age of 88.
