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6 Oct 2014: Professor Patrick Baert and Professor David Runciman are the new heads of the Department of Sociology and the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS), respectively. Baert grew up in Brussels, coming to the UK for his PhD at the

14 May 2014: To mark Mental Health Awareness Week Géraldine Dufour, Head of the Student Counselling Service at the University, looks at how tackling the issues faced while studying can stand students in good stead for the rest of their lives. Mental health is

11 Nov 2014: The results are in with Downing Site and New Museums Site (combined electricity meter) using the most energy, Fenner's Cricket School the least and the university as a whole using 4,228 kWh (1.38%) less energy on Monday than the same time last week.

10 Feb 2014: Professor Duncan Maskell, The Marks and Spencer Professor of Farm Animal Health, Food Science and Food Safety, has been appointed Head of the School of the Biological Sciences. He takes up the post after nine years as the Head of the Department of

24 Oct 2014: All employees of the University who are members of the USS are welcome to attend the Discussion, in addition to those already entitled to attend. Staff may already be aware that Universities UK consulted with employers over the summer on potential

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

23 May 2014: Connecting Cambridge with past, present and future is the theme behind the latest rebranding of University of Cambridge Museums (UCM). The museums’ team rebranded to bring together the eight university museums and Botanic Garden more cohesively.

4 Apr 2014: Professor Martin Millett has been appointed Head of the School of Arts and Humanities. He takes up the post having spent the past 13 years as the Laurence Professor of Classical Archaeology in the Faculty of Classics. The Fitzwilliam College Fellow

4 Apr 2014: It’s hard not to notice the Fitzwilliam Museum – perhaps Cambridge’s most imposing building since the Founder’s Building was completed in 1848 – but it’s been as low-key as it has ever been recently with a shroud of scaffolding hiding

2 Sep 2014: This month sees plenty of cycle-related activities coming to the University, encouraging staff to get on their bikes. For the first time the University will run a cyclists' breakfast on Cycle to Work Day (September 4), handing out free coffee and

25 Nov 2014: Professor Jean-Philippe Avouac, who is the first BP Foundation McKenzie Professor of Earth Sciences, will lead the research team. The initiative has been made possible by the gift of an endowed Professorship from the BP Foundation to Cambridge in

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

4 Jun 2014: Two years ago, Cambridge Judge Business School (CJBS) HR Adviser Laura Whitehead took up a nine-month secondment in the HR Division’s Equality and Diversity team. After working at CJBS for six years she was keen to develop new skills and broaden

26 Jun 2014: The site’s operators are keen to receive news items relating to teaching and learning from Colleges and Departments.

26 Nov 2014: Ms Ashley, 60, has been a high-profile political journalist and commentator for ITN, Channel 4 News, the BBC, the New Statesman and the Guardian.

3 Mar 2014: A series of computer generated images showing key areas of the North West Cambridge Development have been released. The images - displayed on the image carousel of the For Staff part of the University website - are the first to be unveiled, and show

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,

8 Jul 2014: Officials have estimated over one million people lined the whole of the Stage 3 route from Cambridge through Essex to London to watch the world's biggest annual sporting event yesterday. The peloton began its journey by parading through Cambridge

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

13 Nov 2014: The Roadshow also gave staff and students the opportunity to try Empower, an online interactively tool which walks you round your virtual office, lab and home allowing you to see where you could make energy savings. Empower is open to all staff and