Dr Darin Weinberg wins Pollner Prize
20 August 2011Dr Darin Weinberg’s book ‘Of Others Inside: Insanity, Addiction and Belonging in America’, published by Temple University Press, has won the American Sociological Association Pollner...
Cambridge academics to receive prestigious psychology award
16 August 2011Two Cambridge academics have been selected as the joint recipients of one of the most prestigious honours for scientific achievement in the field of psychology.
Number of genes associated with MS doubles
11 August 2011Critical insight provided into the disease mechanisms behind multiple sclerosis.
Come here often?
04 August 2011A new way of predicting which people may become friends on social networks - based on the type of places they visit - has been...
Strength in numbers
28 July 2011Volume of modern humans infiltrating Europe cited as critical factor in the demise of the Neanderthals.
Who mops the floor now? How domestic service shaped 20th-century Britain
28 July 2011From the fictional Downton Abbey to the modest suburban semi, domestic service has had a prominent role in the story, whether real or imagined, of...
Professor Loraine Gelsthorpe elected as President of the British Society of Criminology
28 July 2011Loraine Gelsthorpe FRSA, Fellow of Pembroke College and Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the Institute of Criminology (Faculty of Law) within the University...
Research sheds light on cell mechanism which plays a role in such diseases as Huntington’s and Parkinson’s
26 July 2011New research from scientists at the University of Cambridge provides critical insight into the formation of autophagosomes, which are responsible for cleaning up cellular waste.
The riddle of the Syriac double dot: it’s the world’s earliest question mark
21 July 2011Manuscripts written in Syriac, an ancient language of the Middle East, are peppered with mysterious dots. Among them is the vertical double dot or zagwa...
Field to fork: safeguarding livestock health
21 July 2011Veterinary research in Cambridge is spearheading a new generation of preventive methods to protect livestock from disease.