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Last night marked the last chapter in Cambridge's #MakeItBlue campaign which has seen the #ShineBright team illuminate over 20 of the city's most famous landmarks during the past nine weeks. Over the lockdown period, this group of event professionals has been secretly liaising with venues to bring a bit of colour to our city.

East Anglia’s leading legal powerhouse, Birketts, is to form a new Litigation division, with a focus on the core disciplines and skills of resolving disputes. Designed to enhance client service by improving knowledge sharing, expertise and best practice, the new division will come into operation from Monday (1 June 2020).

The Near East was a crossroad for the ancient world’s greatest civilizations, and invasions over centuries caused enormous changes in cultures, religions and languages. However, a new study of the DNA of ancient skeletons spanning 4,000 years has revealed that most of these changes had no lasting effect on the genetics of the local population...

“Cambridge’s infectious diseases community is making a huge contribution to tackling the pandemic,” says Professor James Wood. He leads several large-scale programmes at the University that rely on his research expertise: infectious diseases that jump from animals to humans. This is, he says, a research area that was ‘colossally neglected’...

Many people view human resources (HR) as a purely administrative role involving arranging interviews, creating offer letters and termination letters, tracking absence and holidays and issuing numerous policies, procedures and forms. While the clerical function is important, HR is so much more than that.

Children at a loose end this afternoon?  Join the #LOCKJAM half term school disco - your kids have great (virtual) fun and you help raise money for freelance musicians and sound crews out of work due to Covid-19.

Darktrace, the world’s leading Cyber AI company, announced that Evolution Metals Corp. (EMC), an environmentally-responsible mining and refining company, has selected Darktrace to protect its critical minerals supply chain from email attacks.

Professor Andrew Fabian from Cambridge's Institute of Astronomy has been awarded the 2020 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics, one of the world's most prestigious science prizes.

A social enterprise which brings together artisan and small food producers from around the UK into a central website has won Anglia Ruskin University’s Big Pitch 2020 competition.