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8 Jan 2015: The University Council has appointed three new Pro-Vice-Chancellors who will take up their positions over the next 12 months. They are Professor Eilis Ferran, Professor Chris Abell and Professor Nigel Slater. They will join Professor Graham Virgo,

11 Feb 2015: Forty of the most academically brilliant and socially committed young people in the US will take up a Gates Cambridge Scholarship to study at the University of Cambridge this autumn.

22 May 2015: The University has launched a new car-sharing website where staff can register their journey and find those travelling in the same direction. The Cambridge University car-share scheme enables organised car-sharing by connecting people travelling in

2 Sep 2015: Ronald B. Jensen (Berlin) and John R. Steel (Berkeley) were awarded the Hausdorff Medal of the European Set Theory Society for the most influential work in set theory in the last five years during the 5th European Set Theory Conference at the Isaac

5 Jan 2015: Since its launch in late 2011 payroll giving, which allows you to donate to charity directly from your wages, has quietly raised close to £95,000. With fewer than 120 of the University’s approximately 9,000 staff signed up to it, the scheme has

14 Jul 2015: The Churchill Archives Centre – home to the personal papers of Sir Winston Churchill, Baroness Thatcher and Sir John Major – has been awarded Archive Service Accreditation.

28 Oct 2015: The grants aim to promote innovative practice in teaching and learning techniques by providing start-up funding for creative or exploratory projects ineligible for other sources of funding. Bids should focus on new approaches or initiatives that

20 Mar 2015: Professor Steve Young is the 2015 recipient of the IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award.

22 Dec 2015: The event recognised outstanding work achieved by members of the UAS over the past year. Awards were given to individuals and teams in four categories, which were based on the UAS values. This year’s winners and citations were:   Value 1 - We

25 Feb 2015: The DataIQ New Talent award was awarded to Sandra Matz, Junior Psychometrician and First Year PhD student in the University of Cambridge Psychometrics Centre. Sandra's colleague, Vess Popov, the Centre's Development Strategist, was also a

23 Jan 2015: Search site. For staff. University Sermon on 'Education for Good News'. ... The subject of the University Sermon, 'Education for Good News', mirrors the fact that 1 February 2015 is designated 'Education Sunday' by Churches Together in England.

14 Jan 2015: Search site. For staff. North West Cambridge Development: news round-up. The construction of key buildings and infrastructure on the North West Cambridge Development is making good progress in what will ... More detailed news and updates can be found on

8 Dec 2015: A film about animal research at the University of Cambridge, showing how scientists use mice to study cancer, has received the 2015 Openness Award in the category of Website or Use of New Media at an awards ceremony last night in London.

16 Nov 2015: The 2016 Marjory Stephenson Prize will be awarded to Steve Oliver, Professor of Systems Biology & Biochemistry at the University of Cambridge and Director of the Cambridge Systems Biology Centre.

11 Nov 2015: The Higher Education Green Paper, Fulfilling our Potential: Teaching Excellence, Social Mobility and Student Choice, is a consultation document published by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (DBIS) on 6 November, 2015. It outlines

2 Mar 2015: The Royal Society of Edinburgh welcomes 56 new Fellows.

26 Nov 2015: Universities are facing considerable and wide-ranging challenges as the higher education sector braces itself for some of the most profound changes in more than a generation. That was the key message from the Registrary at his termly update for

4 Jun 2015: Leverhulme Professor of Human Evolution recognised for research contributions and achievements in physical anthropology.

30 Jan 2015: Thanks to the success in 2014 of a programme of disability multisport activities for adults at the University Sports Centre organisers have launched a new club for 2015. Called Cambridge Adult Disability Multisport (CADMuS) Club it comes out of the

6 May 2015: Writer wins two awards for his work on landscape and nature.