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Virtually family: an anthropological knowledge of the broadband internet

01 October 2006

The explosion of the broadband internet is allowing anthropologists to carry out research into virtual, as well as real communities. Xiaoxiao Yan, based in the...

Duke of Buckingham’s Letter to the University of Cambridge, 1626

Opening the treasure chest

01 October 2006

Cambridge 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 2006

Talk 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 2006

Professor 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 2006

New ‘morphing’ structures have multiple applications

Language teaching award

18 September 2006

The 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 2006

A 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 2006

Listen to lectures by some of the UK’s premier scientists without leaving your home.

Cambridge teaching for adult learners enters cyberspace

04 September 2006

Adult learners are to be given the chance to study everything from climate change to ancient Rome online with the University of Cambridge, starting this...

Coastal communities face greater threat of flooding due to land reclamation

01 September 2006

Seafront communities are being left wide open to the risk of flooding because of the loss of coastal ecosystems, a Cambridge academic has warned.

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Virtually family: an anthropological knowledge of the broadband internet

Opening the treasure chest

Fallacies of Freedom Talk in Africa

Cambridge academic named 'Most Entrepreneurial Scientist'

Scientists develop technology for roll-up laptop screens

Language teaching award

Students launch project to send rocket into space for under £1,000

Cambridge University volunteers webcast BA Festival of Science

Cambridge teaching for adult learners enters cyberspace

Coastal communities face greater threat of flooding due to land reclamation

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