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).
The Queen Mother - a friend remembered
02 April 2002Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, died on Saturday 30 March 2002 at the age of 101. The University of Cambridge's Vice Chancellor, Professor Sir Alec Broers, has paid tribute to her:
"A dear friend of the University, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, will be sadly missed. Her contributions were much valued and we send our sincere condolences to her family".
"A dear friend of the University, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, will be sadly missed. Her contributions were much valued and we send our sincere condolences to her family".
Cracked it!
28 March 2002Hard-boiled eggs rise up when they are spun, whereas raw eggs remain flat. The mystery of why this is so has been cracked in time for Easter by Cambridge mathematician Professor Keith Moffatt, and Japanese physicist Professor Yutaka Shimomura.
César Milstein, 1927-2002
27 March 2002César Milstein, Nobel Laureate and co-inventor of the hybridoma technique for the production of monoclonal antibodies, died this weekend on Sunday 24 October, 2002.
Osteoporosis study reveals higher risk
26 March 2002Results from the largest epidemiological study of osteoporosis in Europe suggest that women are at almost 10 times more likely to suffer from the disease than reports from general practitioners indicate.
Heart of darkness
22 March 2002It is all around us; it fills the universe and yet we cannot see it, touch it or even define what it is. Astronomers the world over are still trying to explain this elusive presence in the Universe - a presence with nothing except its weight to prove its existence. So far all it has is a name: dark matter.
