The International Women’s Forum (IWF) has awarded Professor Dame Sandra Dawson its highest honour by inducting her to their International Hall of Fame.

Major psychiatric disorders are extremely common and their effects on behaviour, perception, emotion and cognition constitute an enormous contribution to worldwide disability.

The University of Cambridge comes second in the Times Higher Education Supplement’s 2006 ranking of world universities.

Two Cambridge students have collected prizes at the UK’s most important awards ceremony for science and engineering undergraduates.

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 Department of Social Anthropology at Cambridge, has a longstanding interest in the relationship between culture and technology and has been investigating the impact of broadband technology since 2002.

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 the wider public. There is a huge amount of activity in this area across a number of projects and disciplines, from digitising records of everyday life in medieval Britain to transcribing audio cassettes of oral history from south Asia.

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, examines the experience of liberal democracy in Malawi over the past 15 years.

Professor Christopher Lowe, at the Institute for Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, has been named the ‘Most Entrepreneurial Scientist of the United Kingdom’.

New ‘morphing’ structures have multiple applications

The University's Language Centre has won two prestigious awards for its innovation in language teaching and learning.