Professor Robert Mair appointed to House of Lords
As a crossbencher, he will owe no allegiance to a political party and will maintain the ability to take part in legislative debates free of party considerations.Robert Mair was appointed Professor of...
View ArticleEducation that adds up
It’s a numbers game. Three million households, seven million children, 30,000 volunteers, and a decade of assessing the basic reading and maths abilities of 3–16-year olds across India.This is the size...
View ArticleBritish and Polish University leaders reaffirm strong academic links
The strength, and the considerable untapped potential, of academic links between the University of Cambridge and Poland were in evidence during the recent visit of a group of senior Polish scientists...
View ArticleA voice for the undocumented
Carlos Adolfo Gonzalez Sierra understands many of the issues faced by Dominican immigrants to the US because he has lived them. For years he had no legal status in the country and, despite working...
View ArticleThe Sea-Pie and the sad sailor
A woman peeks from the curtain of a wagon, rich men parade on a bejewelled elephant and a pensive scholar clutches the tools of his trade: these paintings, no bigger than playing cards, adorn...
View ArticleTowards a new alliance of global campuses
In a joint statement released today, the Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, and the President of the National University of...
View ArticleThe 8th Cambridge Festival of Ideas launches
The packed two-week programme brings together many of the world’s leading thinkers and experts to tackle a series of critical issues, from privacy and the impact of technology to immigration and...
View ArticleNew graphene based inks for high-speed manufacturing of printed electronics
A low-cost, high-speed method for printing graphene inks using a conventional roll-to-roll printing process, like that used to print newspapers and crisp packets, could open up a wide range of...
View ArticleNot a drop to drink
Nainital is picture perfect: lying in a lush green valley in India’s ‘Lake District’, the town sits on a crescent-shaped lake, surrounded by the snow-capped peaks of the Himalayas. Its picturesque...
View ArticleNew microscopic imaging technology reveals origins of leukaemia
The researchers studied tiny protein-producing factories, called ribosomes, isolated from cells. They capitalised on improvements made at the LMB to a high-powered imaging technique known as single...
View ArticleKnowing me, knowing you
Eighteen people take part in Alana Jelinek’s film Knowing. You hear their voices but you never see their faces. The camera records only their hands as they touch, turn, and sometimes pick up, a...
View ArticleA new partnership in Cambridge to help build a more resilient and inclusive...
Having gained an entrance scholarship, Dr Mohamed A. El-Erian was an undergraduate student of economics at Queens’ between 1977 and 1980, receiving a first class honours degree, and is now an Honorary...
View ArticleMan with a Bouquet of Plastic Flowers
Bhupen Khakhar’s portrait of a man holding a bunch of roses belongs to the collection of the National Gallery of Modern Art in Delhi. The painting, titled Man with a Bouquet of Plastic Flowers,...
View ArticleCambridge confirms its leading role in engagement with Africa
The start of the 2015-2016 academic year has brought good news for the team of researchers and coordinators involved in the university-wide Cambridge-Africa Programme.Over the past few weeks, funders...
View ArticleFrom Chinese milk to Indian chocolate, behind the world’s fast-expanding markets
It’s time to think small when it comes to identifying growth areas in the global economy.For the past 15 years, since the BRIC acronym was coined for Brazil, Russia, India and China, the world’s...
View Article… dot, dot, dot: how the ellipsis made its mark
Punctuation is fascinating to some … but a real turnoff to others. If you’re lukewarm about the distinction between dots and dashes, and the history of printers’ marks, then Ellipsis in English...
View ArticleU is for Unicorn
At first glance, it might be a horse with wavy mane and swishing tail – but then you notice the long, twisted horn protruding from its forehead. Looking at this magnificent animal more closely, you see...
View ArticlePlay matters! New centre will examine role of playfulness in learning
The University of Cambridge and the LEGO Foundation will examine the role of playfulness in learning through a new centre and associated professorship.The Centre for Research on Play in Education,...
View ArticleThe astronomer and the witch – how Kepler saved his mother from the stake
Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) is one of the world’s most famous astronomers. He defended Copernicus’s sun-centred universe and discovered that planets move in ellipses. A planet, NASA mission and...
View ArticleOutlaws, trolls and beserkers: meet the hero-monsters of the Icelandic sagas
“I’ve come to kill your monster!” exclaims Beowulf in the 2007 film version of the epic poem. But how do his suspicious Danish hosts know that this monstrously huge stranger is actually a hero...
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