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31 Jan 2013: In a cycle-savvy place such as Cambridge, many of us who can cycle to work are doing so. The 2007 University Travel Survey showed that 39 per cent of employees use a bike to get work, compared with a national average of 19 per cent of all workers.

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

20 Feb 2013: Professor Keith Richards, Chair of the Botanic Garden Syndicate, said: “We are delighted that Beverley will be the new Director of the Botanic Garden.

31 Jan 2013: Led by Professor Morris Brown, and involving more than 1,000 volunteers across eight UK hospitals, Pathway is looking for new ways of treating drug-resistant high blood pressure. ... new Cambridge-wide collaborative project on healthy ageing, Cambridge

1 Feb 2013: In 2006 the Malayasian government decided to recognise the thousands of servicemen from the UK, Australia and New Zealand who had come to their aid between August 1957 and August 1966.

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.

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: And old scientific specimens sometimes assume new scientific uses. “What was Quaternary Science has a wonderful collection of slides showing pollen found in peat beds,” says Professor Jardine.

12 Nov 2013: I feel optimistic that the plan will come to fruition, as there seems to be a new atmosphere of positivity around it. ... The national railway has become busier and we need new routes for freight and passengers.

1 Feb 2013: Gregory, an author new to the genre.

13 Feb 2013: The Institute coming into the University is an important step in bringing our strengths together to accelerate progress in understanding the biology of cancer and developing new approaches to treatment.”.

12 Sep 2013: Search site. For staff. New head of the University Counselling Service for students.

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

15 May 2013: What are the DRC’s key areas of business? The DRC provides information, advice and support to students and staff supporting disabled students. It liaises with all incoming students who have declared a disability during their application, producing

24 May 2013: Magdalena’s research revealed that already at the early embryonic stages cells carry epigenetic information that biases fate - knowledge that has opened a new field of research and helped to understand

1 Feb 2013: So tall are some of the men, that boat builders need to tweak the design of new boats to accommodate them.

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: forum in which to present new research, and the chance to develop teaching expertise through supervisions.

31 Jan 2013: Variously described as “charming”, “decorative” and “a supreme achievement in British map-making”, John Speed’s Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine is more than a map – it is a slice of Tudor and Jacobean life in miniature. The

1 Feb 2013: The frontispiece of Worthington George Smith's 1894 book The Primaeval Savage is as striking today as it must have appeared over 100 years ago. Lying on her back, knees bent to form a lap, the skeleton's head and torso are turned down and to the

31 Jan 2013: Samuel Wilberforce - graduate student. DeHigh up in a shiny glass building on the New Museums Site, materials scientist Samuel Wilberforce bends over a machine that makes small grey shapes, roughly the ... New materials – based on plastics and ceramics

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.”.

20 Feb 2013: We have made a very considerable investment in experimental astrophysics in recent years, including a brand new building to house our astrophysics group. ... Didier’s appointment will open up a new strand of research in one of the most exciting areas

22 Aug 2013: The University’s Development and Alumni Relations office has put in place a new senior leadership team to take the University’s philanthropic agenda to its next and most ambitious stage.

8 Apr 2013: The new post is designed to give an outstanding academic the opportunity to build on the Department of Engineering’s world-leading research in fields that address major, global challenges. ... He will also collaborate with academics, both within

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

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.

31 Jan 2013: Most of us have an extremely narrow view of disability. Asked what springs immediately to mind when imagining a person with a disability, most people come up with the same answers: someone using a wheel chair or a guide dog. This response neatly

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

15 Jul 2013: Search site. For staff. Globe Theatre celebrates Girton's pioneers. Girton College arrives in London this August when a new play inspired by the pioneers of women's education at Cambridge

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

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.

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

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: 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

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: 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

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

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: 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