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31 Jan 2013: Lee and Scott received support from the CareerStart@cam scheme, which is aimed at employees who are new, or fairly new, to their jobs, often having joined the University from school

28 Oct 2013: In 2005 she became Group Director of Global Education at BP, moving on to Cambridge in 2008 as President of Murray Edwards College (formerly New Hall), a post that she held

31 Jan 2013: It is vital we sustain that because that is where new, innovative ideas come from. ... Cambridge benefits from those direct collaborations. The second is that collaboration opens up new opportunities.

25 Feb 2013: Search site. For staff. Churchill exhibition celebrates modernist heritage. Churchill College will be hosting a new exhibition of photographs by Sam Laughlin as part of its 50th anniversary celebrations.

31 Jan 2013: 1) Bring a friend - or several Membership to the University Centre is free to all current University employees, students, alumni, CamCard holders and retired staff, which makes it handy to grab lunch or a drink with your co-workers. But members are

21 Nov 2013: CRUK will invest more than £100 million across 15 cutting-edge research centres to help get new treatments and diagnostics to cancer patients sooner. ... And that means a better chance of making a discovery that could lead to a new treatment in those

25 Sep 2013: Keeping track of this complexity, and supporting new international ventures, is the responsibility of the International Strategy Office (ISO), a small central unit based in the Old Schools. ... Rather, a more strategic approach to global engagement will

15 May 2013: The University’s Senior Academic Promotions CV Scheme will be launched at the start of July and is looking for participants. The scheme aims to address the under-representation of female academics in senior positions by encouraging and supporting

31 Jan 2013: The Female Tatler was in circulation for just nine months after it was started in July 1709 as a rival to its more famous male namesake. It was clearly a trailblazer for the plethora of similar, modern-day glossy publications such as Cosmopolitan

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: Keeping Jesus green Allan Moore dresses for work in a charcoal fleece with “Jesus College Groundsman” embroidered in two lines over his heart, and clean jeans and mud splattered work boots. On this day in January, the weather is windy and damp,

4 Mar 2013: Sigrid Fisher, Head of the Equality & Diversity section at the University, said: "As we see in the news all too often, women face challenging times professionally, economically and socially, both in

1 Feb 2013: his meticulous attention to detail has solved countless puzzles and generated a new understanding of an integral component of the natural world. ... I started finding new species in my own garden – I became an obsessive.”.

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

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

13 Feb 2013: cell replacement; Professors Andy Parker and Val Gibson of the Cavendish Laboratory will talk about a new chapter in particle physics following the ground-breaking experiments at the Large Hadron Collider;

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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: 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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

5 Dec 2013: Professor Franklin, who is currently in the Veterinary School in West Cambridge, will be moving to the School of Clinical Medicine on the Biomedical Campus as part of the new professorship.

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

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

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.

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.

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: new generation of children exposed to accessible computers.