On Saturday 8 January there will be a rare opportunity to visit the University's Law Faculty Building and to speak with the architects responsible for its creation.

Two Cambridge academics have been included in the government's list of appointments to the new Human Genetics Commission. Professor Martin Richards is Director of the University's Centre for Family Research and Professor Bruce Ponder is Head of the Department of Oncology.

Cambridge Chemist Dr Peter Wothers took an explosive look at gases in a lecture to mark National Chemistry Week.

The writer and critic, Dame Antonia Byatt DBE, gave a lecture on modern European story-telling to a University audience this week.

Prime Minister Tony Blair commented, in answer to a question in the House of Commons, "The venture between MIT and Cambridge University is immensely exciting."

If you are a first year student and did not have the vaccination then you should visit your doctor. Overseas students should register with a local doctor and have the vaccination as soon as possible.

Cambridge economic historian Sheilagh Ogilvie has been awarded the prestigious Gyorgy Ranki Prize for her book, State Corporatism and Proto-Industry: The Württemberg Black Forest, 1580-1797. She is co-winner of the prize, which is awarded by the Economic History Association for the best book on European Economic History published in 1997 or 1998.

Hog's Snout, Old Golden Russet, Braddick Nonpareil, Wyken Pippin, Cottenham Seedling and Hoary Morning. All are varieties of apple, and so the subject of a special day of events and celebrations at Cambridge University Botanic Garden.

China's President Jiang Zemin is shown a Chinese Oracle bone by Charles Aylmer of the University Library while touring the Aoi Pavilion.