Architectural ‘Oscar’ for University Maths Centre
31 March 2003The University’s new Centre for Mathematical Sciences (CMS) has been honoured with Cambridge’s highest design award.
Fritillary in focus
28 March 2003One of Britain's best-loved wildflowers, the Snakeshead Fritillary (Fritillaria meleagris) is the subject of Bringing into focus, a stunning new art exhibition at the University's Botanic Garden.
Living at West Cambridge
24 March 2003The University of Cambridge’s West Cambridge site is well known for its high-tech departments and the buildings that house them. March saw the start of the first buildings that will turn this science and technology development into a living community.
Black holes and green futures
21 March 2003As the Cambridge Science Festival enters its final two days people will have an opportunity to consider the history of the universe and the future of the planet in public lectures given by leading Cambridge scientists.
Mission to Mars
20 March 2003Later this year a tiny space probe, Britain's first interplanetary spacecraft, will travel 35 million miles in space to land on Mars. Named after Charles Darwin's ship, Beagle 2 has been built by a team led by Colin Pillinger, Professor of Planetary Sciences at the Open University, who will explain the background to this remarkable achievement in a public lecture called Searching for Life on Mars - Beagle 2, as part of Cambridge Science Festival.
Extremes of Vision
19 March 2003Why have we created a divide between arts and sciences? Are the ways in which artists and scientists see the world as different as we imagine? Can we identify common themes to build bridges between the two disciplines? These are some of the questions to be tackled by a prestigious panel in Extremes of Vision, a public debate taking place today (Wednesday 19 March) at the Faculty of Law, University Sidgwick Site, 7.30pm-9pm.
Cambridge Science Festival
11 March 2003At 10am on Saturday BBC Vets in Practice star Steve Leonard will launch this year's Cambridge Science Festival, an eight-day celebration of science that encompasses events and workshops aimed at every age group, from the toddler upwards. He will then give a children's lecture Extreme Animals Uncovered (Babbage Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site) to explain what it's like to film with dangerous animals.
Spirit of the age
07 March 2003Members of a team of women aiming to ski across Antarctica to the South Pole are to give a public lecture on their planned expedition tomorrow (Tuesday 11 March).
Manful assertions
07 March 2003The Centre for Gender Studies will hold its sixth annual symposium this weekend. The event will explore the ways in which different cultures have constructed their views of what it means to be a man, and in particular the recurring tendency for cultures to create masculinities which attempt to essentialise male identity by defining it according to a universal set of fixed values.
