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29 Apr 2015: The National Academy of Sciences has announced the election of 84 new members and 21 foreign associates from 15 countries in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.

8 Oct 2015: As as well equipment at Cambridge, the database provides access to 237 facilities across its partner institutions at Oxford, Imperial College London, UCL and Southampton, and the project is linked to the National Equipment Portal, which holds

3 Feb 2015: Department of Chemistry researchers win NERC International and Overall Impact Prizes.

30 Jan 2015: Members of USS can read the details of the proposed reforms by clicking on USS News and Publications section in the Further Links section.

15 Dec 2015: The G K Batchelor Prize for 2016 is awarded to Professor Raymond E. Goldstein FRS, Schlumberger Professor of Complex Physical Systems in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics and Fellow of Churchill College.

2 Apr 2015: collected, saving landfill and providing valuable recyclable material which can be turned back into new products.”. ... ERP offered everyone who attended the event the opportunity to win £250 worth of vouchers from a local bicycle store by entering a

13 May 2015: Student union thanks staff for supporting students and enhancing the educational experience

11 Oct 2015: A graduate of the Universities of Edinburgh and Aberdeen, Jeremy Begbie is an Associate of the Royal College of Music, a Licentiate of the Royal Academy of Music and a Fellow of the Royal School of Church Music. Currently an Affiliated Lecturer in

2 Nov 2015: Andra Adams (Computer Laboratory) wins the 'Transforming Society' category at the 2015 UK ICT Pioneers awards.

26 Nov 2015: Student finance. Maintenance loans will be available for part-time HE students and new loans introduced for postgraduate Master’s degrees. ... The new formula will be implemented from 2017-18, subject to a consultation in 2016.

9 Mar 2015: Land Economist wins international award for real estate research

8 Oct 2015: Volunteers are being sort to help out at the 2015 Cambridge Festival of Ideas. Volunteering can be fun and rewarding and any staff able to are welcome to volunteer for the festival which runs from October 19 to November 1. There will be 250, mostly

2 Mar 2015: Clare and Emmanuel colleges take joint honours at Cambridge Culinary Competition.

7 Dec 2015: RUK would be responsible for “horizon scanning” in order to maintain the UK research endeavour’s capability to “respond quickly to new emerging scientific opportunities”.

29 Sep 2015: Polly Courtice, Director of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, has been awarded the 2015 Stanford Bright Award, given annually to an unheralded individual who has made significant contributions to global sustainability.

22 Oct 2015: A range of background material on the North West Cambridge Development was published in The Reporter on 21 October. Members of the University may attend and contribute remarks, which are made in the form of prepared speeches and are then publish

27 Feb 2015: Cambridge joins a select group of universities thanks to national recognition for work on gender equality.

30 Apr 2015: The wizardry that transported a the hologram-style image of the professor across the huge distance worked thanks to the company Cisco, the University of New South Wales’ Big Questions Institute ... While the audience in Sidney enjoyed An Evening with

10 Mar 2015: Dr Gilly Carr, Senior Lecturer and Academic Director in Archaeology at the Institute of Continuing Education, and Principal Investigator on the grant, has been awarded a British Academy grant in collaboration with Professor Marek Jasinski of the

22 May 2015: The University has launched a new car-sharing website where staff can register their journey and find those travelling in the same direction.

24 Sep 2015: Three research members of Professor Dino Giussani's group have recently been awarded prizes for their work.

28 Oct 2015: Bids should focus on new approaches or initiatives that enhance teaching and learning. ... Many creative projects have been supported by the Teaching and Learning Innovation Fund, including a collaborative learning initiative between University

2 Sep 2015: Ronald B. Jensen (Berlin) and John R. Steel (Berkeley) were awarded the Hausdorff Medal of the European Set Theory Society for the most influential work in set theory in the last five years during the 5th European Set Theory Conference at the Isaac

5 Jan 2015: Since its launch in late 2011 payroll giving, which allows you to donate to charity directly from your wages, has quietly raised close to £95,000. With fewer than 120 of the University’s approximately 9,000 staff signed up to it, the scheme has

20 Mar 2015: Professor Steve Young is the 2015 recipient of the IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award.

22 Dec 2015: Individual: David Cook. David has been involved in a part-time secondment to support the financial management of the new University of Cambridge Primary School, and his immense input and commitment ... David worked in areas not familiar to him, namely

14 Jul 2015: The Churchill Archives Centre – home to the personal papers of Sir Winston Churchill, Baroness Thatcher and Sir John Major – has been awarded Archive Service Accreditation.

11 Nov 2015: Higher TEF levels would unlock permission for institutions to charge higher fees to new students. ... Otherwise, a new body would take on HEFCE’s role of distributing quality-related research funding.

16 Nov 2015: The recipient is awarded £1,000. Steve is at the forefront of Systems Biology research and was co-creator of ‘Eve’, a robot scientist designed to search for new drug candidates

26 Nov 2015: Excellence Framework, a renewed emphasis on social mobility and widening participation, and a commitment to accelerate ways in which new providers could enter the market and access public money. ... The former would likely come under direct control of

4 Jun 2015: Leverhulme Professor of Human Evolution recognised for research contributions and achievements in physical anthropology.

30 Jan 2015: Thanks to the success in 2014 of a programme of disability multisport activities for adults at the University Sports Centre organisers have launched a new club for 2015. ... for purpose structure will improve opportunities for participants, open up new

6 May 2015: Writer wins two awards for his work on landscape and nature.

2 Jul 2015: Search site. For staff. Open meeting for University administrative staff. Refurbishing old accommodation and erecting new buildings are not “nice to haves” – they are central to our future competitiveness, and require ... Over the same period,

20 Jan 2015: Having served as Senior United Nations Mediation Expert and as Director of the European Centre for Minority Issues he now advises on the drafting of the new constitution for Yemen.

18 Sep 2015: registered. With the start of the new school year, schools are doing problems at a rate of 75,000 per week – up 10-fold from June.

27 May 2015: These Fellowships support the researchers' careers while they focus on the development of new technologies. ... This new knowledge will allow her to develop optimised structures for single photon sources that are robust and provide efficient performance

27 Oct 2015: A summary of the previous open meeting, which took place in June, is available in the staff news section.

6 Nov 2015: This record is encrypted in a chemical code and the overarching goal of my research is to decrypt the record, and produce new insights into the workings of our planet's ... She said: “We are working toward the design of new superconductors by applying

22 Jan 2015: Jesus College has replaced three male portraits with the work of French artist Agnès Thurnauer, portraying defiant images of women as part of a ground-breaking exhibition. The portraits, which appropriate Manet’s striking images of female

30 Oct 2015: Fingerprint scanner tech firm gets £250K grant from DFID

29 Apr 2015: Cambridge team comes second in a major global business competition that features thousands of entrants from all over the world.

30 Sep 2015: With the national Liftshare week being celebrated from October 5 the University is offering even more incentive for staff to share their car trips to work. The University provides staff with a totally free-to-use car-sharing website which shows

9 Sep 2015: The prestigious Rosetrees Trust Interdisciplinary Prize 2015 has been awarded to Professor Sir Mark Welland and Professor Andres Floto for research on tuberculosis drug treatments.

13 Feb 2015: The 12th Annual Disability Lecture called Laughter as a Catalyst for Change will be given by Jess Thom. The lecture is an opportunity to hear Jess talk about the often misunderstood neurological condition, Tourette's Syndrome, which causes

2 Jul 2015: oxides. Notably, Driscoll’s “nanotechnology in a thin film” approach has provided a new route to high-performance electronic materials with outstanding property enhancements. ... In several areas of soft matter electronics and opto-electronics

18 Nov 2015: Ch. Van Heck Prize 2015. An understanding of DNA damage and repair processes has helped us devise new therapeutic approaches for certain types of cancers, and it is my belief that

16 Apr 2015: Only now do we have the tools needed to examine lipids on an individual basis and we hope with ion mobility this will provide a new dimension of separation so we ... Fjeldsted noted that the collaboration is also expected to yield new systems and

11 Mar 2015: The American Academy of Neurology (AAN) and the National Multiple Sclerosis Society are awarding the 2015 John Dystel Prize for MS Research to Alastair Compston, MBBS, PhD, Professor of Neurology at the University of Cambridge.

20 Jan 2015: Four Cambridge researchers receive Library of Congress fellowships.