Review of the year 2005
22 Dec 20052005 was a momentous year for the University of Cambridge. Here are some of the stories which kept us in the headlines.
CHaOS President receives volunteer award
14 Nov 2005Mudit Matanhelia, President of the student society CHaOS (Cambridge Hands-On Science) 2004-2005, has received a Home Office Year of the Volunteer medal for 2005.
Outstanding Contribution to Community
17 Oct 2005The Cambridge Science Festival has been shortlisted for an award for 'Outstanding Contribution to the Local Community' by The Times Higher Education Supplement (THES).
Touring CHaOS
30 Mar 2005Cambridge Hands-on Science is going on a three-day tour to Southend-on-Sea.
Cambridge Science Festival: Another year- another success
24 Mar 2005Daleks, Darth Vader and Dr. Who characters were roaming the streets of Cambridge last Saturday, 19 March, while young children were building hovercrafts and extracting DNA from kiwi!
Tonight: Future Histories of Science
23 Mar 2005We have seen some dramatic changes in science during the last 50 years or so that have changed our lives. From the Internet to mobile telephony to the discovery of DNA we have come to take for granted knowledge and technologies that our great-grandparents wouldn’t have imagined.
Tonight: Mental Time Travel and Embryonic Steps towards Stem Cell Medicine
22 Mar 2005‘Spotlight on Science’ continues with two talks tonight, both taking place at the Babbage Lecture Theatre.
Tonight- Iris Recognition: the window to the soul?
21 Mar 2005We have all seen it in futuristic films and wondered when Iris Recognition technologies will replace picture IDs across the board. What some of us may not know, however, is that the algorithms that form the basis of all iris recognition systems were developed by Dr John Daugman, Reader in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition at the University of Cambridge.
Cambridge Science Festival and 100 years of Einstein
18 Mar 2005Konnie Huq, presenter of Blue Peter, and the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge Professor Alison Richard will open the Cambridge Science Festival tomorrow, Saturday, 19 March at 10am.
Tonight: A time-traveller’s guide to eating
16 Mar 2005We may not suffer from nutrient deficiencies in Cambridge anymore but is the abundance of food available all-year-round responsible for our preoccupation with food and health?