Foundations for the future
30 April 2002A vision for the future has become reality with the completion of the first new building on the University's major new science and technology site, West Cambridge.
Marlowe at Cambridge
29 April 2002On Saturday 27 April Corpus Christi College, Cambridge hosted a day-long symposium exploring the life, times and work of one of its most famous literary alumni - the Elizabethan playwright and poet Christopher Marlowe.
Not having it all
24 April 2002Women are being forced into a choice between career and family, according to author and economist Sylvia Ann Hewlett. Her groundbreaking new book Baby Hunger: The New Battle for Motherhood is making big headlines on both sides of the Atlantic, and reveals some startling statistics about career choices and fertility. A Cambridge graduate, Hewlett will discuss her findings - and their implications for public policy - in two Cambridge talks.
Plastic Logic wins new funding
22 April 2002University of Cambridge spin-out Plastic Logic has announced that it has successfully raised £6.3 million of private finance . The funds will be used to expand the current team of 22 and accelerate technology development and commercialisation.
Developing technologies - May conference
17 April 2002Speakers and delegates from across the world will come to Cambridge next month for an international conference on globalisation, technology and development. The conference will be hosted by the Cambridge Review of International Affairs (CRIA) in conjunction with the Centre for International Studies.
Small steps into giant leaps!
10 April 2002Work on a major new nanoscience research building has begun at West Cambridge, the University of Cambridge's new science and technology campus.
HM Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, 1900 - 2002
09 April 2002Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, played a long and full part in the life of our University and the Colleges, as she did in the life of our nation.
New Exhibition Reveals the Colourful History of the Illustrated Book
08 April 2002Today we are surrounded by colour printed images - from the pages of magazines to the humble baked beans tin - but there was a time when such images were an expensive luxury, available only to a wealthy elite.
Regional security in the Korean peninsula
05 April 2002Ambassador Stephen Bosworth opened the second day of a major Cambridge conference on the future of the Korean penisula with an analysis of relations between North and South Korea, the prospects for reunification and the role of the USA in Northeast Asia.
Leading Korean politician speaks out on reunification
04 April 2002Madame Park Geun Hye, South Korean National Assembly Member and former Vice-President of the country’s Grand National Party, opened a significant conference on the international relations of the Korean peninsula yesterday (Wednesday 3 April 2002).
