The Cambridge Programme for Industry has announced that fourteen senior executives of some of the UK’s leading businesses have approached the Prime Minister offering their support in taking bold steps to prevent climate change.

A young researcher working at the University of Cambridge’s Centre for Brain Repair has been commended at the Houses of Parliament for his research on Parkinson’s disease.

The Sri Lankan national cricket team will be playing the inaugural match of their UK tour against a British Universities XI at Fenner’s in Cambridge.

Long-running BBC Television children’s programme Blue Peter visits Cambridge this evening.

More than 450 Cambridge alumni and friends attended last night’s Cambridge 800th Anniversary Campaign launch event at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Hong Kong.

A PhD student at the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research (CIMR), Richard Page, has been hailed as one of the UK’s top young scientists after being awarded the 2006 Westminster Medal in conjunction with Dr Christopher Mee of the Medical Research Council (MRC) Functional Genetics Unit (FGU) in Oxford.

The Lisbet Rausing Charitable Fund has provided £3.8 million to endow in perpetuity a professorship in Conservation Biology at the University of Cambridge.

A Cambridge PhD student is following in his great-great-grandfather's footsteps by helping to measure the speeds of up to one million stars passing near the Sun, a huge advance on the efforts of his ancestor who was able to measure the speeds of only 100 stars over a century ago.

Cambridge scientists have discovered a solution for controlling one of the world’s biggest environmental and ecological pests – the zebra mussel.

Four doctors have received prizes from the University’s School of Clinical Medicine in recognition of outstanding work on their MD dissertations.