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1 Feb 2013: 1908. It was the year that bank robbers Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid met their deaths in Bolivia, Baden-Powell set up the Boy Scout movement and the first Model T rolled off Henry Ford’s production line in Detroit, Michigan. Less well known,

29 Apr 2013: This year, the University can endorse up to ten Cambridge MBA students and a further ten ‘general’ endorsements – from either other graduates or postdoctoral workers. ... To be eligible for general endorsement, applicants must have a Bachelor,

31 Jan 2013: Perhaps if you’re a butler, having a locked cupboard in your office which opens up to reveal a hidden staircase is par for the course. In the case of Sara Rhodes, that staircase leads into the Trinity Hall Fellows’ wine cellar. Keeping track of

3 May 2013: The distinguished individuals are: Professor Jon Crowcroft, Marconi Professor of Communications Systems, Computer Laboratory Jon Crowcroft is distinguished for his many seminal contributions to the development of the internet. His work on satellite

31 Jan 2013: From rugby to real tennis Tall and powerfully built, diabetes researcher and clinician Dr Mark Evans looks like he would be more comfortable charging down an oval ball on a rugby pitch than chasing a dense, cloth-covered one around a real tennis

28 Mar 2013: Staff and students are being asked how they would invest £50,000 to help the University make savings in energy use. Last month people and teams in departments, Colleges and other University institutions were inspired by Switch Off Week, turning off

26 Jul 2013: Our members have 24/7 access.”. The encouraging news is that a second space has opened in Mill Lane, and McTavish has plans for a third at Addenbooke’s.

24 Apr 2013: The University will confer honorary doctorates at the Congregation at 2.45pm on Tuesday, 18 June 2013, at which the Chancellor, Lord Sainsbury of Turville, will preside. The distinguished individuals the University is expecting to honour are: Doctor

31 Jan 2013: Every year, thousands of tourists flock to Cambridge to marvel at the stunning architecture of University and college buildings. So it won’t be surprising to learn that some of these buildings are studied by students and scholars of architecture

12 Sep 2013: Professor Sir Bruce Ponder, Director of the Cambridge Cancer Centre. Addenbrooke’s becomes the first general hospital in Europe to get the stamp of approval from a prestigious European cancer body

31 Jan 2013: A mid-August afternoon at the University Accommodation Service and staff are coping admirably with a relentless stream of enquiries. No sooner has one call been answered than another takes its place. The front door is opening and closing pretty

26 Feb 2013: Professor David Ibbetson FBA has been elected the eighth President of Clare Hall. He will succeed Sir Martin Harris who will be retiring in the summer of 2013. Professor Ibbetson has been Regius Professor of Civil Law at the University since 2000.

13 Feb 2013: Lovers of classical music reading this will know that it is unusual to go to a piano recital and not hear a piece by Fryderyk Chopin. More than 200 years after his birth, Chopin is not only a household name, but also probably the most enduring

6 Mar 2013: Energy savings are also good news for departmental budgets. The Energy Incentivisation Scheme means departments now have an allocated budget according to their energy needs: whatever they save can be used

16 Jul 2013: Standing, leaning back on their haunches, or kneeling on all fours, the white-suited figures behind yellow police tape appear to be searching for clues. But the mysterious team in the grounds of Jesus College is evidence not of crime, but of art.

15 Apr 2013: Members of the University have until this Friday to submit views to the review committee on the governance and management arrangements for sport within the University. The Council, at its meeting on 26 November last year, accepted the recommendation

31 Jan 2013: As well as working with local schools, the Cambridge Bilingualism Network also organises open workshops where experts in specific areas of bilingualism present research outcomes to the general public.

8 Aug 2013: Each year the Academy recognises academics for their outstanding research and work across the humanities and social sciences. It represents the counterpart to the Royal Society, which exists to serve the natural sciences. “The humanities and

31 Jan 2013: News of the visitor’s arrival travelled fast, and thousands of sightseers set off by road and rail to see the monster.

15 Jul 2013: Girton College arrives in London this August when a new play inspired by the pioneers of women's education at Cambridge opens at the Globe Theatre. Written by Jessica Swale, Blue Stockings begins in 1896 – a year before the University Senate voted

1 Feb 2013: A journalist, he ran the Guernsey Underground News Service (GUNS) during the occupation. ... They then wrote up news from the Allied side and distributed it to their fellow islanders.

21 Nov 2013: Cambridge cancer scientists and clinicians are set to benefit from a multi-million pound investment from Cancer Research UK (CRUK) it was revealed today. CRUK will invest more than £100 million across 15 cutting-edge research centres to help get

19 Jun 2013: Neil Kelly teaches maths at Chesterton Community College, a large comprehensive in north Cambridge. One of the aspects of his job he likes most is that no two days are the same. Each morning his email inbox is full of messages from colleagues and

4 Dec 2013: Martin Bellamy, who will join the University in March, is currently Director of Change and ICT for the National Offender Management Service (NOMS). NOMS is an agency of the Ministry of Justice, formed in 2005, which operates the prison and probation

11 Sep 2013: The constituencies would persist in this form, more or less, until their extinction at the 1950 General Election; and at various times throughout the next 350 years, the Oxbridge MPs were ... university franchise, was himself defeated in the General

25 Feb 2013: Churchill College will be hosting a new exhibition of photographs by Sam Laughlin as part of its 50th anniversary celebrations. Architecture as Monument, which runs from 8-24 March, focuses on the modernist architecture of the College and its status

24 Oct 2013: Whether you’re into activism, blogging, podcasting or comedy, if you’re keen to communicate your work in discussion with public audiences, there are more ways than ever to engage and inspire. The University’s annual Science Festival and

5 Dec 2013: Robin Franklin has been appointed Professor of Stem Cell Medicine with effect from 1st January 2014. Professor Franklin, who is currently in the Veterinary School in West Cambridge, will be moving to the School of Clinical Medicine on the Biomedical

15 May 2013: The following institutions are also awaiting news of an award application: the School of Clinical Medicine; the Department of Engineering; and the Department of Veterinary Medicine.

19 Jun 2013: Wolfson College Cambridge has announced that the Wolfson Foundation, after which the College is named, has made a grant of £1.25 million for the College’s 50th anniversary campaign. The gift will transform the lives of students living and working

1 Feb 2013: On a Thursday evening in September 400 years ago, Simon Forman’s wife asked which of them would die first. Forman – at the time one of London’s best-known astrologers, occultists and physicians – replied that he would be dead within a week.

18 Feb 2013: What makes a successful woman at Cambridge? How should we judge success? And who would you nominate as a role model? These are questions that the Senior Gender Equality Network are putting to the wider University as part of a project to launch a

31 Jan 2013: Democracies require that citizens understand things. The price of liberty is eternal vigilance and there’s not much vigilance on the part of the general public at the moment.”.

21 Jun 2013: He has also devised a new third year course in Semiconductor Engineering, and has reinvigorated laboratories for the general Part I.”.

31 Jan 2013: Professor Andy Hopper and Dr Rob Mullins both confess to being slightly surprised – but delighted – by the extraordinary reaction that’s greeted the Raspberry Pi computer. By the time it was officially launched, and months before the credit

13 Feb 2013: The University and Cancer Research UK have also announced the appointment of Professor Simon Tavaré as the next Director of the newly branded Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, succeeding Sir Bruce Ponder. The transfer will strengthen the

13 Feb 2013: As well as being home to a world-leading university, Cambridge can lay claim to being the UK’s capital of cycling, and in February a new velocipede arrives in the city. Looking like a cross between a gym bike and a unicycle, it should get staff

13 Feb 2013: Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Institutional Affairs Jeremy Sanders welcomed the decision. “The North West Cambridge development is a major part of the University’s long-term future, providing much of the residential and research accommodation that the

31 Jan 2013: While not essential to his science, Dr Ott believes that producing stunning images is crucial to communicating his science to a wider audience, both to the general public and to academics

15 Apr 2013: In 2003, 58 people gathered to listen to Professor Usha Goswami deliver a lecture entitled ‘A Cross-Language Approach to Developmental Dyslexia’. This was the first in a series of annual disability lectures held with the support of St John’s