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10 Mar 2015: Dr Gilly Carr, Senior Lecturer and Academic Director in Archaeology at the Institute of Continuing Education, and Principal Investigator on the grant, has been awarded a British Academy grant in collaboration with Professor Marek Jasinski of the

2 Mar 2015: Clare and Emmanuel colleges take joint honours at Cambridge Culinary Competition.

8 Oct 2015: Volunteers are being sort to help out at the 2015 Cambridge Festival of Ideas. Volunteering can be fun and rewarding and any staff able to are welcome to volunteer for the festival which runs from October 19 to November 1. There will be 250, mostly

11 Mar 2015: Wafa Mohammed Abutaleb, PhD student in Radiology at the School of Clinical Medicine, has won two awards in the latest international European Society of Radiology.

7 Dec 2015: In a report published last month, Royal Society president Sir Paul Nurse called for greater collaboration between scientists and the government. His suggestions were backed by George Osbourne in the Comprehensive Spending Review. The full report is

29 Sep 2015: Polly Courtice, Director of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, has been awarded the 2015 Stanford Bright Award, given annually to an unheralded individual who has made significant contributions to global sustainability.

22 Oct 2015: A range of background material on the North West Cambridge Development was published in The Reporter on 21 October. Members of the University may attend and contribute remarks, which are made in the form of prepared speeches and are then publish

27 Feb 2015: Cambridge joins a select group of universities thanks to national recognition for work on gender equality.

30 Apr 2015: When Professor Stephen Hawking took the stage in the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall earlier this week it was his first public lecture in Australia. However Professor Hawking was actually addressing his audience from almost 17,000km away, thanks to

24 Sep 2015: Three research members of Professor Dino Giussani's group have recently been awarded prizes for their work.

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.

9 Dec 2015: The strategy introduces the idea of having ‘digital champions’, individuals identified by the General Board’s Education Committee, who will promote ways for staff to complement their teaching through digital learning.

20 Jan 2015: Academic wins the "Oscar" of the legal world.

2 Jul 2015: The first half of the meeting was given over to a presentation by Professor Steve Young on the current priorities and challenges facing the University. As many of you will know, Professor Young is coming to the end of his term as Senior Pro-Vice

27 May 2015: Dr Rachel Oliver from the Cambridge Centre for Gallium Nitride has received a prestigious RAEng/Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship from the Royal Academy of Engineering.

18 Sep 2015: An innovative free online physics resource aimed at students and teachers has been shortlisted in the Times Higher Education (THE) Awards 2015. The Isaac Physics project was developed in Cambridge in response to concerns that A Level physics

29 Apr 2015: Professor Lalita Ramakrishnan announced as one of 84 new members of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.

27 Oct 2015: A summary of the previous open meeting, which took place in June, is available in the staff news section.

6 Nov 2015: Dr John Rudge (Department of Earth Sciences), Dr Suchitra Sebastian (Department of Physics), and Dr Renaud Gagné (Faculty of Classics) have been awarded Philip Leverhulme Prizes in recognition of their outstanding research work.

22 Jan 2015: Jesus College has replaced three male portraits with the work of French artist Agnès Thurnauer, portraying defiant images of women as part of a ground-breaking exhibition. The portraits, which appropriate Manet’s striking images of female

29 Apr 2015: Cambridge team comes second in a major global business competition that features thousands of entrants from all over the world.

30 Sep 2015: With the national Liftshare week being celebrated from October 5 the University is offering even more incentive for staff to share their car trips to work. The University provides staff with a totally free-to-use car-sharing website which shows

30 Oct 2015: Fingerprint scanner tech firm gets £250K grant from DFID

13 Feb 2015: The 12th Annual Disability Lecture called Laughter as a Catalyst for Change will be given by Jess Thom. The lecture is an opportunity to hear Jess talk about the often misunderstood neurological condition, Tourette's Syndrome, which causes

9 Sep 2015: The prestigious Rosetrees Trust Interdisciplinary Prize 2015 has been awarded to Professor Sir Mark Welland and Professor Andres Floto for research on tuberculosis drug treatments.

18 Nov 2015: Professor Steve Jackson, Head of Cancer Research UK Labs and Senior Group Leader at the Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge, has been awarded the Gagna A. & Ch. Van Heck Prize 2015 in Belgium, "for his cardinal contributions related to cell

2 Jul 2015: Professor John Barrow, Professor Judith Driscoll and Professor Henning Sirringhaus have been awarded medals in the 2015 Institute of Physics awards.

16 Apr 2015: Agilent Technologies Inc. today announced that Jules Griffin has received an Agilent Thought Leader Award in recognition of his work in lipidomics.

18 Feb 2015: The Reverend Professor Alister McGrath is to preach the Hulsean Sermon on Sunday, 1 March in the University Church, Great St Mary's, at 11.15 a.m. The Hulsean Sermon, to be preached on The Truth and Excellence of Revealed Religion, or the Evidence

11 Mar 2015: The American Academy of Neurology (AAN) and the National Multiple Sclerosis Society are awarding the 2015 John Dystel Prize for MS Research to Alastair Compston, MBBS, PhD, Professor of Neurology at the University of Cambridge.

16 Apr 2015: Professor Ross Anderson FRS FREng has been named as the recipient of the 2015 BCS Lovelace Medal awarded by BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT. The award is presented annually to individuals who, in the opinion of BCS, have made a significant