Cambridge excels in world ranking
04 October 2006The University of Cambridge comes second in the Times Higher Education Supplement’s 2006 ranking of world universities.
Cambridge students triumph at science, engineering and technology awards.
02 October 2006Two Cambridge students have collected prizes at the UK’s most important awards ceremony for science and engineering undergraduates.
Fallacies of Freedom Talk in Africa
01 October 2006Talk of hard-won freedom can be a threat to the very freedoms being celebrated. Harri Englund, a University Lecturer in the Department of Social Anthropology,...
Virtually family: an anthropological knowledge of the broadband internet
01 October 2006The explosion of the broadband internet is allowing anthropologists to carry out research into virtual, as well as real communities. Xiaoxiao Yan, based in the...
Opening the treasure chest
01 October 2006Cambridge is leading the way in Resource Enhancement projects in the UK, opening up its unique and valuable collections to scholars worldwide, as well as...
Cambridge academic named 'Most Entrepreneurial Scientist'
26 September 2006Professor Christopher Lowe, at the Institute for Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, has been named the ‘Most Entrepreneurial Scientist of the United Kingdom’.
Scientists develop technology for roll-up laptop screens
21 September 2006New ‘morphing’ structures have multiple applications
Language teaching award
18 September 2006The University's Language Centre has won two prestigious awards for its innovation in language teaching and learning.
Students launch project to send rocket into space for under £1,000
15 September 2006A group of students from the University of Cambridge who plan on launching a rocket into space for less than £1,000 have taken the first...
Cambridge University volunteers webcast BA Festival of Science
06 September 2006Listen to lectures by some of the UK’s premier scientists without leaving your home.