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2 May 2014: Sigrid Fisher, Head of Equality and Diversity. Staff are encouraged to get away from their desks and get involved in People Matter Week this year. ... desks, so we want to stress this year that we really do want people to take time out and come and take

7 Mar 2014: Mr Matthew Bullock takes over from Professor Paul Luzio as Master of St Edmund's in October. A History student of Peterhouse, Mr Bullock was an economist and banker for most of his career, primarily with Barclays. As a local bank manager in

6 Jul 2014: Professor Anthony (Tony) Purnell started racing when he was 13. Riding a shiny, second-hand Carlton bike, he raced and he raced. His competitiveness almost led to the ruination of his studies, but fortunately he managed to get to University and

7 Jul 2014: Professor Anthony Purnell, Visiting Royal Academy of Engineering Professor in Systems Engineering, Trinity Hall. What was the make and colour of your first bike as a child, and did you name it anything? Carlton Blue, but it was all chrome, so

16 Oct 2014: Professor Duncan Maskell has been appointed Senior Pro-Vice-Chancellor, succeeding Professor Steve Young on 1 August 2015. The five Pro-Vice-Chancellors are responsible for taking forward the University’s strategy and policy development, and

25 Nov 2014: As the Department of Pharmacology celebrates the life and work of Dr Brian Callingham, Paul Holland interviews the researcher and his colleagues discovering a man of many talents… and how a moorhen ‘accidentally’ made it into the Biomedical

10 Mar 2014: This year’s Cambridge Science Festival is a series of events which simply could not happen without the input of more than 1,000 members of staff and students from all parts of the University, says one of its organisers. In 2013 the festival

7 Feb 2014: Professor Richard Prager has been appointed Head of Cambridge University School of Technology. The focus of his new role will be to ensure the school acts as “the glue” between the five departments it represents and the central university.

16 Dec 2014: The iconic Transport for London Tube Map has been given the Cambridge treatment to show how far the University’s fibre-optic network stretches. With a nod to classic re-interpretations of the map, like artist Simon Patterson’s The Great Bear,

24 Oct 2014: Stewart, too, has noticed that her people skills still come in handy, despite her recent move from bedmaking to dusting the 180,000 books in King’s library.