The University has played a major part in making the arrival of the new Millennium in Cambridge a night to remember.

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.

The first complete survey of student completion and background published by HEFCE shows that Cambridge University has the lowest drop-out rate of all Universities at 1%. The benchmark set by the Government for drop-out projections was 6%, and Cambridge's closest statistically valid comparison, Oxford University, also achieved a low drop-out of 2%.

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."

A ground-breaking partnership was announced between the University of Cambridge and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on Monday, 8 November.

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.

Professor Sir Alec Broers, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, made this speech following the announcement of the partnership by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown.