Seeding growth: plant sciences
01 May 2010The study of plants is blossoming in Cambridge, with new facilities, new research and soon a major new institute.
Challenging crime: Institute of Criminology
01 May 2010Criminologists in Cambridge are investigating the origins, prevention and control of crime in a fast-changing world.
Location, location, location: finding out where proteins live and with whom
01 May 2010The Cambridge Centre for Proteomics is internationally recognised for pioneering technology that helps us to understand what proteins do inside cells.
Computing for the Future of the Planet wins Google funding
01 May 2010A gift from Google will help Computing for the Future of the Planet.
A scriptorium of commonplace books
01 May 2010A digital archive of 500-year-old 'filofaxes' offers extraordinary insight into early thought and writing practices.
Libraries and light
01 May 2010Research in the Department of Architecture aims to reveal the creative potential of light in the design of contemporary libraries.
Superbug detective
01 May 2010The expertise of Cambridge's new Professor of Clinical Microbiology, Sharon Peacock, is helping to drive a programme of research that will track and block routes...
Children's literature comes of age
01 May 2010A new Centre for Children’s Literature is providing a focus for research on how children are shaped by early encounters with books and film.
The 1972 Munich Olympics and the Making of Modern Germany
01 May 2010A new analysis of the Munich Games of 1972 places the event at the very centre of modern German history, as Dr Chris Young explains.
Cultural heritage after conflict
01 May 2010A collaborative study led by Cambridge is examining the impact on society of the destruction and reconstruction of cultural heritage.