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31 Jan 2013: Few roles are as high profile as being a royal, something that Prince William and Kate Middleton know all too well. In the past, however, ruling members of royal families found themselves not only attracting a huge amount of attention but also quite

31 Jan 2013: Everything travels better on hard ice,” Bill explains. “The wind keeps sheering off the top and new ice is freezing on the bottom so you get this beautiful, flat surface

2 Aug 2013: Also new for August are a series of four plant-spotting trails in the Botanic Garden.

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: Gillian Griffiths has made key contributions to the fields of both cell biology and immunology, introducing important new concepts into both fields. ... Her findings have opened up a new field, and these diseases are now often referred to as

17 Jun 2013: The University of Cambridge should be open with data that relate to the recruitment, progression and retention of female academics to stimulate genuine progress on gender equality, the Vice-Chancellor said last week. “Straightforward statistics

16 Jul 2013: Akin to the Botanic Garden, West Road Concert Hall and the new Sports Centre, he wants North West Cambridge to enrich town and gown. ... It's the creation of a new urban extension to Cambridge – a tabula rasa.

31 Jan 2013: As a school, we need to be thinking all the time about how we are supporting our children who are new to English or bilingual,” she says. ... So we shouldn’t think of bilingualism as some exception – it’s just new to Europe but normal around the

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

19 Jun 2013: Before we get a new group of STIMULUS undergraduates at the start of the school year, I give the scheme a bit of a push and tell our pupils just how

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

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.

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

11 Sep 2013: From St Ives in west Cornwall to Orkney and Shetland, there is scarcely a parliamentary seat in Britain that has not been occupied by a Cambridge graduate. But within living memory, the University has also been a constituency in its own right, and

12 Sep 2013: Addenbrooke’s becomes the first general hospital in Europe to get the stamp of approval from a prestigious European cancer body at an event in Cambridge today. The Cambridge Cancer Centre, a partnership of Cambridge University Hospitals, the

24 Oct 2013: activities. These can generate financial and public support for the University, and help its members to disseminate knowledge and form new partnerships.

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. ... The final chapter of whale’s tale begins in the mid-1980s, when the bones were cleaned and planning for installation at its

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 ... colleges.” Prime candidates for inclusion will be Jesus College’s new ground

31 Jan 2013: new generation of children exposed to accessible computers.

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.