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29 Apr 2013: The University is looking to help international students who want to stay in the UK after finishing their studies by endorsing them as part of the UK Border Agency’s Tier 1 (Graduate entrepreneur) scheme. The Graduate entrepreneur scheme was

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: There were many high-calibre proposals, but some would require further investigation and may instead be considered as research projects under the Living Laboratory for Sustainability, where students can get involved ... in research projects focusing on

31 Jan 2013: Programme at the Scott Polar Research Institute.

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

26 Feb 2013: His principal research interest is in legal history - in particular, ancient law, post-Conquest English law, and comparative European legal history. ... Clare Hall was founded in 1966 as a centre for advanced study, bringing together research scholars of

26 Jul 2013: Students conduct crucial market research into the idea’s viability and, in the process, gain valuable industry contacts and business skills. ... Over a term, we assemble teams of seven students who work on a nominated University research project.

12 Sep 2013: The Cambridge Cancer Centre, a partnership of Cambridge University Hospitals, the University of Cambridge and Cancer Research UK and others, will be accredited today by the Organisation of European Cancer Institutes ... president Professor Wim van Harten

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.

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

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

15 Jul 2013: Drawing on hours of research in Girton's archive, Swale based two of the characters, Dr Maudsley and Elizabeth Welsh, on historical figures, and was keen to show men's role

31 Jan 2013: A lot of our department’s research focuses on how children – including bilingual children – learn languages, but we can’t do that without talking to teachers and parents about what it ... As well as working with local schools, the Cambridge

8 Aug 2013: Search site. For staff. British Academy New Fellows 2013. Each year the Academy recognises academics for their outstanding research and work across the humanities and social sciences. ... helping select researchers and research projects for funding

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: For Cambridge, this provides the backing needed to expand an already vibrant cross-disciplinary research hub. ... Day-to-day operations take place at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

19 Jun 2013: I probably got my job at Imperial on the strength of my research rather than my teaching ability, so I don’t know if STIMULUS really affected my life trajectory but

4 Dec 2013: world’s top research-led universities.”.

24 Oct 2013: Common themes showed that research is often conditionally welcomed, as is the participation of business. ... problems. Consultees also stressed regulation of emerging technologies as well as their use in research and innovation.

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

11 Sep 2013: Most famously, he asked: “Would you ask a mother what practical use her baby is?” when pressed on the practical use of complex research in the pure sciences. ... Amazingly, there are only two of us with science PhDs in the Commons, and I’m the only

5 Dec 2013: Search site. For staff. Professor of Stem Cell Medicine appointed. Robin Franklin’s research is a great example of how to go from a fundamental discovery in regenerative biology to a ... A key part of his role will be as Head of Translational Science

15 May 2013: schools for biomedical research centre and unit funding if the school held a silver Athena SWAN award. ... The awards therefore play a significant role in helping departments carry out research at the highest standards of international excellence and

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.

31 Jan 2013: On his blog, Professor John Naughton describes himself as an academic, author, columnist, optimist, dad, grandad, photographer, blogger and company director.

18 Feb 2013: The project, supported by funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, will seek to highlight and explore different meanings of success and excellence.

13 Feb 2013: residential and research accommodation that the University needs as it grows over the next 20 years.

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 Biomedical Campus, but also across other research disciplines, particularly in the Biological and Physical Sciences. ... Research in molecular imaging, genomics, bioinformatics and computational biology. • Translational research on specific cancer

31 Jan 2013: In collaboration with Grae Worster, Professor of Fluid Dynamics at the Institute of Theoretical Geophysics, and Senior Research Fellow Jerome Neufeld, the group produced something resembling a large ice lolly. ... And while the scientific community

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

13 Feb 2013: The University has world-class research in energy, from fundamental physics and chemistry to applied engineering. ... Departments exist to teach, as well as do research, and Engineering’s energy roof has formed part of fourth-year and PhD student

1 Feb 2013: Liz Cruwys, author. On a fine morning in 1996 Liz Cruwys, a marine biologist, cycled from the Scott Polar Research Institute to Heffers book shop on Trinity Street. ... In constructing her plots, she combines historical research with a cracking good story

21 Jun 2013: This appointment marked a return to the department where she worked first as a Research Associate and then a Senior Research Associate from 1984 to 1999, before a brief intermission in