Public engagement
Winners of a “Design Your Own Structure” competition have been treated to a tour of the Engineering Department during which they were presented with prizes to reward their efforts.
The Cambridge Science Festival has won the Public Body Award at the inaugural Directory of Social Change Awards Ceremony this week.
The Ingeniosaurus was not the most common of dinosaurs, but it was certainly the most clever.
A video message from Professor Stephen Hawking about the family home in which he wrote his celebrated book A Brief History of Time is now available to view on the University of Cambridge website.
Students throughout the University's science departments – right from Astronomy to Zoology - this week celebrated a decade of bringing fun science to the public.
Public engagement with science is top of Dr Chris Smith's agenda. His trailblazing approach to making scientific issues interesting, interactive and informative to the general public has gained recognition within the University of Cambridge and beyond.
An estimated 10,000 people, many of them families with young children, poured into the University of Cambridge for the first Saturday of this spring's Cambridge Science Festival.
For the first time, it is possible to stream or download a series of Cambridge Science Festival podcasts. Presented by Carol Vorderman, the five- to eight-minute podcasts offer a taste of the many fun and educational events taking place at and near the University through 25 March.
Panel to answer intriguing, and sometimes bizarre, questions about food at Saturday's Cambridge Science Festival event.
There are plenty of cool events coming up at the Cambridge Science Festival, guaranteed to appeal to the teenage audience. Top of the agenda are two shows coming up at the ADC.
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