'Drugs, Deceptions & Disasters'
Cambridge Infectious Diseases will hold its first annual invited lecture later this week (31 May, 2012).Drugs, Deceptions & Disasters will provide the opportunity to hear three leading investigators speak on the global problem of counterfeit drugs and poor quality essential medicines.
‘Everything, everywhere, ever’ – a new door opens on the history of humanity
The history of humanity, from our earliest ancestors to today’s indigenous people spread across the globe, is being retold as a Cambridge University museum reopens following a £1.8m redevelopment.
Seahorses and the “onion world”
Dr Amanda Vincent – one of the world’s leading experts on seahorses and their relatives – is spending a year at Cambridge’s Department of Geography on a sabbatical from the University of British Columbia. She is introducing some new ideas into conservation discussion groups at Cambridge.
The changing face of British intelligence
Dame Stella Rimington, former Director-General of MI5, will deliver Newnham College’s Jane Harrison Memorial Lecture tomorrow (Friday, 25 May).
The power of thinking big
Population studies on a vast scale are providing the power to enable accurate risk assessment – and intervention – into cardiovascular disease.
Cambridge students win 'McKinsey Innovate' 2012
The Ethical Tomato Company - four postgraduate students from the Engineering for Sustainable Development Masters programme at the University of Cambridge - has been judged winner of the McKinsey Innovate 2012 competition.
The art of survival
A collection of artefacts made by prisoners from the Channel Islands in World War II has gone on display in Jersey to mark the 70th anniversary of the Channel Island deportations, with the help of a Cambridge researcher.
Bronze Age Facebook
Large clusters of rock art spanning thousands of years but located at the same site may hold key to detecting massive cultural changes in prehistoric hunter-gatherers of the north.
With the people, for the people: applying mental health research
From campus to community, the worlds of mental health research and medical practice are being brought together by a collaboration involving researchers, health and social care providers, and the patients themselves.
Alison Richard Building is opened
The newest building on the University of Cambridge’s Sidgwick Site has been named in honour of the former Vice-Chancellor.
Topping out for Materials Science and Metallurgy Building
An important phase in the construction of the new £41 million home for the University of Cambridge Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy has been reached.
Butterfly genome reveals a promiscuous past
An international collaborative study to map the genome of a South American butterfly has identified the secret behind its mimetic nature.
Parmee Prize awarded to research student Felice Torrisi
Felice Torrisi, of the Electrical Engineering Division's Nanomaterials and Spectroscopy Group at the University of Cambridge, has been awarded this year's Parmee Prize for Entrepreneurship and Enterprise for his project on graphene printing technology.
A new dimension to DNA and personalised medicine of the future
By investigating the existence of an unusual four-stranded structure of DNA in human cells, scientists have opened the door to novel cancer therapeutics and a new era for personalised medicine.
£16M boost for UK robotics
Cambridge and Cranfield Universities are at the heart of a £16 million government initiative to boost the use of robotics in UK industry. The research project is a government-industry-academic partnership designed to develop smart machines that think for themselves.
Ethical dilemmas and global health
Sociologists Sridhar Venkatapuram and David Stuckler discuss how tensions within society are slowing down the process of combating disease worldwide.
Unhealthy diet and physical inactivity: understanding these silent killers
Population-based interventions for tackling unhealthy diet and physical inactivity could save millions of lives. An ambitious research programme is providing evidence for how best to deliver the goal.
Benefit changes raise pressure on country life
Significant numbers of social tenants in rural areas may have to move away from their friends and communities because of changes to housing benefit criteria, a report reveals.
Scientists identify protein that stimulates brown fat to burn calories
Scientists have identified a protein which regulates the activation of brown fat in both the brain and the body’s tissues. Their research, which was conducted in mice, has just been published in the journal Cell.
Archaeologists discover lost language
Evidence for a forgotten ancient language which dates back more than 2,500 years, to the time of the Assyrian Empire, has been found by archaeologists working in Turkey.
Rooted in evidence: a public health response to dementia
Research programmes at the Cambridge Institute of Public Health focus on common chronic disorders. Currently under the spotlight is dementia and a major new project that will underpin improved prevention, screening and patient care.
Mystery of the domestication of the horse solved
New research indicates that domestic horses originated in the steppes of modern-day Ukraine, southwest Russia and west Kazakhstan, mixing with local wild stocks as they spread throughout Europe and Asia. The research has just been published in the journal PNAS.
Researchers start work on Phase 2 of the India-UK Advanced Technology Centre
Researchers at Cambridge University Engineering Design Centre are playing a key role in the recently announced Phase 2 of the India-UK Advanced Technology Centre; the largest India-UK ICT research collaboration, which employs 200 scientists in both countries, announced by the UK's Minister for Universities and Science David Willetts, during a meeting with Indian Science and Technology Minister…
Undergraduates collaborate with Jaguar Land Rover
A group of Cambridge University engineering undergraduates are nearing completion of their final-year projects in collaboration with Jaguar Land Rover. The projects began in October 2011 and will come to a conclusion with the submission of final reports at the end of this month.
Towards zero carbon procurement
The University of Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership (CPSL) is hosting a launch event for 'Towards Zero Carbon Procurement', chaired by Lord Sainsbury of Turville, Chancellor of the University. This public-private initiative aims to create procurement opportunities for suppliers able to offer innovative low-carbon goods and services.