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Pacific curators restore Indigenous voices to colonial-era collections, in MAA exhibition

08 December 2024

'Fault Lines', a new exhibition at MAA, offers an intimate exploration of Pacific cultures guided by Indigenous curators and contemporary artists from Hawai‘i, the Torres Strait, Bougainville and the Salish Sea

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Azim Surani.

Journeys of discovery: Azim Surani on the earliest stages of life

24 Oct 2024

Azim Surani has followed his curiosity for over half a century, rewriting science in the process.

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Planet earth

Cambridge is forging a future for our planet

21 Oct 2024

Find out how Cambridge's pioneering research in climate and nature is regenerating nature, rewiring energy, rethinking transport and redefining...

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Bhaskar Vira.

Changemakers: Bhaskar Vira, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Education and Environmental Sustainability

21 Oct 2024

Economist, researcher and educator, Bhaskar Vira is keeping faith with a life-long love for the natural world and a determination to tackle the...

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Rachael Garrett

Changemakers: Rachael Garrett and the Conservation Research Institute

21 Oct 2024

Meet Rachael Garrett: land scientist, forest wanderer and Director of the Conservation Research Institute.

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Melissa Leach

Changemakers: Melissa Leach and Cambridge Conservation Initiative

21 Oct 2024

Meet the new leader of the Cambridge Conservation Initiative, Professor Melissa Leach CBE.

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Lindsay Hooper

Changemakers: Lindsay Hooper and the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership

21 Oct 2024

Lindsay Hooper wants to rewrite the rules of the global economy. She leads the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership: a global network of...

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Emily Shuckburgh

Changemakers: Emily Shuckburgh and Cambridge Zero

21 Oct 2024

Meet Emily Shuckburgh, Director of Cambridge Zero. She’s been a figurehead of climate science for decades, bringing her prowess to the University...

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A student in a lab

Universities expected to solve climate change

21 Oct 2024

A new survey highlights public expectations for fixing the climate crisis

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Cambridge's Raj Jena becomes UK's first Professor of AI in radiotherapy

17 Oct 2024

The creation of the new Clinical Professorship signals the importance of AI in the fight against cancer and builds on the University’s work to apply...

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Illustration of T cells attacking cancer cells

Supertroopers: CAR-T cell cancer therapy

16 Oct 2024

A life-saving cancer therapy is being scaled up in Cambridge to deliver more treatments to more patients for more cancers.

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Buying time: can science save the Great Barrier Reef?

16 Oct 2024

If we don’t stop global temperatures – both on land and at sea – from rising, the Great Barrier Reef could become a coral graveyard. A team of...

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Cairngorms landscape.

Return to the wild

12 Oct 2024

Ambitious collaborations are bringing biodiversity back to the Scottish Highlands.

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