Public engagement
A unique poster that brings flaming elements to life through a smartphone app has been distributed to schools across the UK and further afield as part of the Cambridge Chemistry Challenge, using technology developed in the University’s Department of Engineering.
Local charities have been awarded more than £45,000 in a prize giving ceremony held at the University of Cambridge.
Half a dozen Cambridge academics are about to take the plunge and attempt to communicate their research through the medium of stand-up comedy. Nobody is quite sure what will happen next.
As the centennial anniversary of the first arctic expeditions to the South Pole is celebrated, the Scott Polar Research Institute paid tribute to the dogs that made the explorations possible as part of Cambridge University’s Festival of Ideas on Wednesday.
The University of Cambridge’s Festival of Ideas bows out this weekend with a host of family friendly and thought-provoking events.
Public and government obsession with security is hampering a rational, open debate about prison policy, the former governor of Brixton Prison told a debate at the Cambridge Festival of Ideas last week.
Modern politicians are too stuck in a 24/7 media bubble to make the kind of grand speeches associated with past leaders, a debate on political rhetoric at the Cambridge Festival of Ideas heard last week.
Imagine a world in which there is no difference between blue and black or green and blue. A world where there are hundreds of different types of snow.
An online recreation of Charles Darwin’s famous experiment on the expression of emotion is being launched at Cambridge University’s Festival of Ideas tomorrow (22nd).
Cambridge University’s Festival of Ideas begins today (19 October).
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