Gonville & Caius expands for the 21st century
17 October 2006Gonville & Caius College opened the doors to its brand new student residence and conference centre at 5 West Road this term, marking the most...
New post to spearhead research into saving biological diversity
13 October 2006A ground-breaking professorship that will unify research into how to tackle the Earth’s waning biological diversity is to be created at the University of Cambridge.
Cambridge professor joins hall of fame
11 October 2006The International Women’s Forum (IWF) has awarded Professor Dame Sandra Dawson its highest honour by inducting her to their International Hall of Fame.
Cognitive enhancement: on the frontline of neuropsychiatry
04 October 2006Major psychiatric disorders are extremely common and their effects on behaviour, perception, emotion and cognition constitute an enormous contribution to worldwide disability.
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.
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...
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,...
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’.