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18 Feb 2016: Jasmin Brooks   Autism is a developmental disorder that can cause problems with social interaction, language skills, repetitive behaviour and physical movement (1). Although many int

22 Apr 2016: Linguistics at Cambridge introduces students to the study of language as a phenomenon from a wide range of exciting perspectives. In the first year you will acquire the building blocks for analysing l

15 Apr 2016: way for the sort of honed economic rationality which Milton Friedman famously advocated for effective commercial decision making, Polman’s call will appear paradoxical. ... Simply put, a feminist argument highlights that the economic success of the

22 Mar 2016: About you I come from a Nigerian family but have spent most of my life in the UK, being based in North London for the majority of my life. I love fashion, music and travelling. I have done a lot of

22 Mar 2016: About me I grew up in a little, inconsequential, town called Hinckley in Leicestershire and attended comprehensive co-ed schools my whole life. Despite receiving little support or much good teachin

30 Sep 2016: Hopping on trains and a ferry across Italy I visited six cities in two weeks. Our longest trip was nine hours, with the scenery flashing from urban flats to volcanic mountains. Taking recommendations

26 May 2016: Most people know that insect pollinators increase agricultural crop yields, but estimates by the researchers Morse and Calderone have shown the value of honeybee pollination to crop production is $14.

6 Oct 2016:  As a nation, Great Britain is one of the highest consumers of chocolate in the world. On average a British person consumes 11kg of chocolate each year, the equivalent of three bars a week; so wh

22 Mar 2016: Learning to love Maths Maths is certainly not something I’ve been passionate about my whole life; on the contrary, I often found it a ‘necessary evil’ through a fair bit of school - something that

24 Mar 2016:  The biochemistry of metabolismMy name is Alice and I am a 3rd year biochemist. Initially I came to Cambridge thinking I would specialise in chemistry as the less strong teaching of biology at my

17 May 2016: About Me I’ve lived in a suburban town just down the road from the centre of Manchester all of my life, which still has the grammar school entrance exam system. I failed every exam, but it didn’t s

10 Nov 2016: Essentially everyone has their own reality. Everyone has their own little world with thousands of things different to the person stood next to them.  Say for example there were fifty things going

31 Mar 2016: Degrees and honours BA, PhD Biography Dr Lydia Hamlett is Associate Professor at the Institute of Continuing Education, University of Cambridge. Before coming to the Institute of Continuin

6 Oct 2016:  Recently, our country has made the bold decision to become a pioneer and leave the European Union, which has left many people with the same question at the forefront of their minds: what now?

11 Apr 2016: Shadowing Scheme - Cambridge SU (Students' Union) An opportunity for students with little or no experience of university to find out what life as a Cambridge student is really like: Stay with

26 Oct 2016: About Me I grew up in a town just outside of Bristol/Bath and studied A levels in Fine Art, Maths and Geography at my local co-educational comprehensive school. Neither of my parents attended unive

25 Oct 2016: About Me   Hey! I’m Chloe, a second year Geography undergrad at Murray Edwards or, more affectionately, ‘Medwards’.   Coming from a high achieving girls grammar school in Watford

21 Jun 2016: The business leader, Margaret Cole, and contemporary painter, Eileen Cooper, were warmly welcomed to the College as Honorary Fellows at an admission ceremony on Saturday 18 June. Artist Eileen Coop

30 Sep 2016: Over summer, I took a 3-week trip to Valencia, Spain to volunteer at a children’s English summer school and improve my own level of Spanish. During the mornings on weekdays, I spent 5 hours helping

28 Jan 2016: Catalina Cangea   The reason I chose to study CS was maintaining the strongest connection possible to the real world while pursuing a Science subject. Powerful and complex software eng