Engineers discover blue phase
18 August 2005Researchers at the University’s Department of Engineering have discovered a class of blue-phase liquid crystals that remain stable over a wide range: from 16 to 60 degrees.
Major grant from the U.S.
18 August 2005Charles ffrench-Constant, Professor of Neurological Genetics and Robin Franklin, Professor of Neuroscience have recently received a $3.8 million grant from the United States National Multiple Sclerosis (MS) society and will be leading an international team in an exploration on how to enhance the body’s myelin repair abilities by focusing on the development and regeneration of the oligodendrocyte.
VC honoured in Madagascar
17 August 2005Professor Alison Richard, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Antananarivo, Madagascar, and appointed an Officier de l'Ordre National by the President of the Republic of Madagascar.
Dirac Medal for Sir Sam
11 August 2005Sir Sam Edwards, Emeritus Cavendish Professor of the University of Cambridge, has been awarded the 2005 Dirac Medal by the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP).
Judged the best
11 August 2005Mark de Rond from the University of Cambridge's Judge Business School is this year's recipient of the Academy of Management's George R. Terry Book Award.
Excavating mammoth houses
11 August 2005University of Cambridge archaeologists are joining forces with Czech colleagues to study the world’s first houses, sometimes built from mammoth bones, in Southern Moravia.
Tenth anniversary party for University staff holiday playscheme
10 August 2005The University of Cambridge’s award-winning Holiday Playscheme is celebrating its tenth anniversary on Wednesday August 10 at the University Sports Ground, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.
Easier, Faster, Cleaner Chemistry
09 August 2005Making the production of pharmaceutical drugs easier, quicker, cleaner and cheaper is the aim of new company, Reaxa Ltd, founded by Professor Steven Ley of the University of Cambridge with partners including the leading fine chemicals company Avecia.
Real Madagascar
05 August 2005If a talking zebra, giraffe and hippo seemed strange in the animated movie ’‘Madagascar’, then the real life furry inhabitants of the island in the Indian Ocean will seem truly bizarre.
Cambridge Assessment
03 August 2005Cambridge Assessment is the new identity of the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate (UCLES), one of the world's largest assessment agencies.
