Britain and Europe: what went wrong and will it ever come right will be explored by Lord Hannay, the former UK permanent representative to the European Community, at the Alcuin Lecture on Tuesday 5 March 2002.

Cambridge University has received 48 top 5 grades in the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise, with 30 departments receiving the ultimate 5* accolade. A total of 51 departments were assessed and none was graded less than 4.

Dan McKenzie, Royal Society Professor of Earth Sciences at the University of Cambridge, has been awarded the prestigious Crafoord Prize for Geosciences 2002 for his groundbreaking work on the earth's evolution.

Graduate students at the University of Cambridge will get the chance to work with some of Europe's most exciting architects and landscape architects at a workshop this week.

The Cambridge Programme for Industry (CPI) has won a national award for its outstanding contribution to environmental and sustainability education.

A new book by a Cambridge historian which uses the history of Kew Gardens to trace the relationship between the rise of Western science and the growth of European imperialism has won a prestigious international prize.

Victoria Glendinning CBE, FRSL gave the 2002 Leslie Stephen Lecture in the Senate House yesterday afternoon (Wednesday 13 February 2002).

A team of British scientists has shown that too many female deer in a herd is bad news for males - as well as for deer herd managers.

Max Perutz, one of the founding fathers of molecular biology, died on 6 February 2002 at the age of 87.

Fossilised footprints uncovered in an Oxfordshire quarry have revealed important clues about how large meat-eating theropod dinosaurs moved.