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For over 450 years, students have been studying anatomy at Cambridge through whole body dissection. But students find that they learn far more than just the architecture of the human body. https://medium.com/@cambridge_uni/2985c0cb84ab#.3e0t18swb

A Cambridge augmented reality app that breathes animated life into the printed page has worked its magic on the programme for this year's Science Festival. Download the free app, 'pop the Popcode', and point your phone at the front cover of the Science Festival programme. If you haven't got a programme yet, you can try it on the website: http://comms.group.cam.ac.uk/sciencefestival/popcode/

Despite the rapid melting of ice in many parts of Antarctica during the second half of the 20th century, researchers have found that the floating ice shelves which skirt the eastern Antarctic Peninsula have undergone sustained advance over the past 20 years.

Want to learn how to row but worried about falling into the River Cam? Well Downing College's rowing tank maybe a good place to work on your technique before getting into an actual boat. The tank officially opens on Saturday 21st April. For more information visit their website: http://www.cambridgerowingtank.co.uk

Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, delivers a public lecture at Madingley Hall on 24 November 2011. The lecture is chaired by Dr Ron Zimmern, Chairman of the Foundation for Genomics and Population Health, and introduced by Dr Rebecca Lingwood, Director of Continuing Education at the University of Cambridge. Please note that the lecture proper begins

On 1 October 2010, in a ceremony in Cambridge's Senate House, Sir Leszek Borysiewicz was admitted to office as the 345th Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. He was previously Chief Executive of the Medical Research Council, and before that Deputy Rector of Imperial College London. The University of Cambridge is one of the world's greatest research Universities, with 17,500 students

The Cambridge scientists developing a COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine Professor Jonathan Heeney explains why we need a vaccine against the new COVID-19 coronavirus and how his team is using new technology developed for influenza and Ebola viruses to target the new infection. Thumbnail Credit - Fusion Animation

The Descent of Man would forever change the way we thought about ourselves and where we come from but how accurate was Darwin in his ideas about human evolution? Professor Robert Foley, Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies explores how 19th-century society viewed ideas of 'early man', and reveals how far our knowledge has progressed since Darwin sketched his

Ready for a Cambridge adventure? ️ We have eight museums for you to explore and to help you get started, here's the first four: Museum of Zoology ❄️ The Polar Museum Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Whipple Museum of the History of Science Can you find them all? #Museums #CambridgeMuseums #CambridgeUniversity #Cambridge #UniversityOfCambridge

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Sign up today for our Applicant Webinar Series: https://bit.ly/ApplicantWebinarsYT Before successfully applying to medicine at Cambridge, Ashna was worried how her disability would affect her application. Ashna has her own website, where she provides updates about her life as a medical student: https://ashnabiju.com/ Ashna is affiliated with @CaiusSchools #VersusPastDoubts #CambridgeUniversity

Currently Co-Director of the Alaska Mountain Safety Center, Inc. Jill Fredston is one of North America's leading avalanche specialists, as well as being an accomplished rower and explorer. Her book Rowing to Latitude Journey along the Arctic's Edge won the 2002 National Outdoor Book Award for Literature. Her most recent book Snowstruck In the Grip of Avalanches was published in November 2005. Her

Watch Artist in Residence Nabil Ali make ink from the bark of Newton’s Apple Tree in Cambridge University Botanic Garden. The tree, which blew down in a storm in 2022, was grafted from the original apple tree in a Lincolnshire garden that is said to have inspired Sir Isaac Newton’s theory of gravity. Nabil has named his ink Newton’s Gold. It will be part of a digital colour catalogue he’s

New Cambridge students: how are you getting on with your formal gowns? Some new @SidneySussexCollege students told us a bit about theirs during matriculation day #Cambridge #Freshers2023 #CambridgeUni #CambridgeUniversity #Uni

Every year Kettle's Yard must raise over 50% of its income from external sources. This short film showcases the importance of philanthropic support to Kettle's Yard. http://www.kettlesyard.co.uk/support-us/

This is the first in a series of three films about four people ‘Leaving Prison in Faith’. Dr Ruth Armstrong meets a Christian man and a Muslim man as they prepare to leave HMPYOI Feltham in London and a Christian woman and a Muslim woman as they prepare to leave HMPYOI Styal. In these films you meet the four protagonists of the films in their prison cells and hear of their hopes for themselves

Climate changes from millions of years ago are recorded at daily rate in ancient sea shells, new research shows. A huge X-ray microscope has revealed growth bands in plankton shells that show how shell chemistry records the sea temperature. The results could allow scientists to chart short timescale changes in ocean temperatures hundreds of millions of years ago. This video shows computerised

Cambridge Festival of Ideas explores new and original thinking on some of the most pressing issues of the day. The aim of the Festival is to fuel people’s interest in arts, humanities and social sciences through a series of events ranging from talks, debates and film screenings to exhibitions and comedy nights. Of the over 250 events at the Festival, most are free. www.festivalofideas.cam.ac.uk/

Go Viral! is a new game developed in partnership between the UK Government and the University of Cambridge to help fight the ‘infodemic’: the deluge of false information about COVID-19. Based on ‘inoculation theory’, the game simulates an environment for users to play the role of a fake news producer, so they can understand how misinformation is circulated online. Play Go Viral! here:

Find out more about the eagerly awaited Cambridge Festival of Ideas event 'Access all archives: sights and sounds' which will take place on Monday 24 October 2011. The University's museums will be brought alive with live music and cutting-edge sound installations to accompany your exploration of the archives. Film and photography projections, improvisation, gamelan gongs, DJ sets and more combine

Pain in The Machine is a short documentary that considers whether robots should feel pain. Once you've watched our film, please take a moment to complete our short survey https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/PainintheMachineSurvey Pain is a feeling that most would describe as being unpleasant, both physically and emotionally. Why then do humans and other animals have pain, and how is it useful?

For more information about studying at Cambridge: https://www.undergraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/ 0:00 - Intro 0:32 - School background 1:44 - Student finance 2:58 - State schools vs independent schools 3:52 - Settling in at university 5:12 - Choosing a College 6:24 - The most important part of the application process 7:12 - Interview success 7:52 - Student workload 9:18 - Shy students at interview

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman turned a Yorkshire clergyman into a literary celebrity. Three hundred years after his birth on 24 November 1713, Laurence Sterne's quirky take on the novel continues to inspire. Dr Mary Newbould explores Sterne's lasting impact.

A chemical found in our breath could provide a flag to warn of dangerously-low blood sugar levels in patients with type 1 diabetes, according to new research the University of Cambridge. The finding, published today in the journal Diabetes Care, could explain why some dogs can be trained to spot the warning signs in patients. The researchers found that levels of the chemical isoprene rose

An inspiring and insightful lecture by Sir David Attenborough in the University of Cambridge Senate House marked the official launch of the Cambridge Conservation Campus. The Campus, due to be complete towards the end of 2015, will become the hub for the world's largest conservation cluster, the Cambridge Conservation Initiative (CCI). It will be an international centre of interdisciplinary

Dozens of Cambridge University undergraduates come from care backgrounds and/or are estranged from their families, like Lily-Rose and Connall. Both met through the Realise Project, which aims to encourage more young people from similar backgrounds to go to University. They say the following schemes were incredibly useful in allowing them to focus on their studies: Realise Project-

On display at the Whipple Library, Cambridge, is a book described as the 'most important book in the history of scientific racism' Current research into this book is revealing how racist ideas travelled between the United States and Europe in the 19th century. Crania Americana, published in Philadelphia in 1839 by Samuel George Morton, is being studied by Cambridge University PhD student James

So, now what? is a new podcast from Gates Cambridge (https://GatesCambridge) , a leading scholarship programme for outstanding international postgraduates at the University of Cambridge. Our guests are the scholars themselves - big thinkers from a range of different backgrounds and disciplines - who are out there finding solutions to some of our most wicked problems from the global economy and

More information on the matches here: https://cuafc.org/varsity-24 ⚽ The women and men of CUAFC have six Varsity games coming up this month, starting at the home of @OxfordCity this Sunday and then at @CambridgeUnitedFootballClub on the 15th March 2024. ️ @damifadun asks club-mates; Anna, Abbie, Tom and Ife about how they are preparing for their big games and about what it's like to be part

Richard Watson, #futurist-in-Residence at the Entrepreneurship Centre, Cambridge Judge Business School, talks about the future of energy, health and AI – and the most dangerous idea in the world. Read more: www.cam.ac.uk/this-cambridge-life/the-futurist-who-would-like-the-future-to-slow-down Listen to Richard discuss the future of AI – its potential benefits and harms – in our recent Mind

For more information on settling in at Cambridge University see: https://www.studentwellbeing.admin.cam.ac.uk/ Disclaimer: While every effort has been made to ensure that the information contained in this video is accurate at the time it was uploaded, changes are likely to occur. It is therefore very important that you check the University and College websites for any updates before you apply for

Learn more about our Open Days at: www.cam.ac.uk/opendays Current Cambridge students, Abiola, Razik, and Lorna, give tips and advice for making the most of your Open Day visit: 0:04 Plan your travel in advance and aim to use public transport 0:24 Research the programme and activities taking place 0:35 Visit a range of Colleges 0:49 Plan your day around talk timings 1:00 Use a map to plan your

Understanding and changing the world beyond 2050 Professor Lord Martin Rees (University of Cambridge, UK) Summary: By 2050, we will all be increasingly empowered by technology that potentially offers huge benefits to the developing and the developed world. But these same advances will pose novel ethical dilemmas, and render our ever-more interconnected world vulnerable to new and disruptive

A record breaking 12,000 members of the public attended the 2011 Festival of Ideas. Nearly 190 events took place over twelve days and there was a chance to get involved in everything from a circus skills workshop to debates on current affairs issues. Check out everything you missed in this short video! The Festival of Ideas celebrates the arts, humanities and social sciences with hundreds of free

A team of Cambridge social scientists have been conducting research on the world’s largest trial of a four-day working week. Last year, 61 organisations in the UK committed to a 20% reduction in working hours for all staff for six months. With no fall in wages. The findings suggest that a four-day week significantly reduces stress and illness in the workforce, and helps with worker retention.

Our society is more unequal than ever, as the top 1% control over 44% of the world’s wealth while 689 million people are living on less than $1.90 per day. In this episode, we asked our guests what the future of fairness, justice, and equality should look like, and how their research can help to bring about a fairer society. Alexa Hagerty and Natalie Jones shared how injustice can be thought of

Cambridge researchers have captured on film the activity of T cells – an important component of our immune system – as they hunt down and kill cancer cells. For the first time, they have also shown how these cells reload their toxic weapons. Cytotoxic T cells are specialist white blood cells that are trained by our immune system to recognise and eliminate threats – including tumour cells

New research, from the laboratory of Professor Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz of the University of Cambridge, enables scientists to view critical aspects of mammalian embryonic development which was previously unobservable. Around the fourth day, at which point the developing embryo implants into the mother's womb, its development becomes hidden from view as this is taking place. Yet this is a very

After long negotiations, on 19 February Prime Minister David Cameron announced that the European Council had agreed a new settlement for the United Kingdom in the European Union. In line with the Conservative Party manifesto, this agreement has triggered a referendum on whether Britain should remain in the European Union to be held on Thursday 23 June. In this video, Catherine Barnard examines

Meet Professor Debbie Prentice: the new Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge "It gives me great pleasure to introduce myself as the University of Cambridge’s new Vice-Chancellor. I am excited to be taking on this new role at a critical moment for all of us. I am a psychologist with an interest in social norms. I have spent most of my academic career at Princeton, including the last

The Cambridge Animal Alphabet series celebrates Cambridge's connections with animals through literature, art, science and society. Here, J is for Jay – a surprisingly clever corvid with the ability to mimic human voices and much more. Jays are corvids – members of the crow family. The jays we see in Britain are Eurasian jays. With their pinkish plumage, and characteristic flash of blue, they

Academics and students from History of Art explain what the subject involves and aspect they particularly enjoy about studying in Cambridge. This includes a visit to Kettle’s Yard, Kettle’s Yard is a beautiful House with a remarkable collection of modern art and a gallery that hosts modern and contemporary art exhibitions. https://www.undergraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/courses/anglo-saxon-norse-and

What's it like to be LGBTQ+ at Cambridge? Queer identifying Sociology PhD candidate and LGBTQ+ researcher Elisabeth Sandler spoke with alumnus Dr Jason Mellad about coming out at Cambridge, and why we should all be working towards a world where anyone can be as out and as proud as they want to be. Jason did his PhD in Medicine at Clare College and is now CEO and co-founder of Start Codon, based

Sitting in a field strung with 120 miles of radio telescope antennae, 24-year old Cambridge PhD student Jocelyn Bell couldn’t shake the feeling that she’d seen something before. The year was 1967. For two years, Jocelyn had helped solder and sledgehammer the antennae into place at the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory just outside Cambridge. As she pored over her rolls of chart recordings,

Best-selling author Tara Westover (https://www.gatescambridge.org/about/news/what-does-it-mean-to-be-educated/) , researcher Aliya Khalid (https://www.gatescambridge.org/about/news/how-mothers-affect-their-daughters-education/) and Thabo Msibi (https://www.gatescambridge.org/about/news/thabo-msibi-south-africa/) Deputy Vice Chancellor for Teaching and Learning at the University of KwaZulu-Natal

In early January, a team of Cambridge scientists set out on an expedition to study and map the Larsen C ice shelf in western Antarctica, and – ice conditions permitting – search for the wreckage of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance. Professor Julian Dowdeswell, Director of the Scott Polar Research Institute, is chief scientist on the ambitious expedition, which will use drones, satellites

How is the environment represented in children’s books? Can we talk to children about climate change through literature? These sorts of questions interest Dr Jenny Bavidge, Senior Lecturer in the University of Cambridge’s Faculty of English and Institute of Continuing Education, who explains here about how her work on literature connects with research in biodiversity conservation. This film

Ostrich feathers are often associated with glamorous women but this wasn’t always the case. In the sixteenth century, it was Europe’s men who spearheaded this trend. Now, a forgotten moment in fashion history has been brought back to life by the recreation of a lavish headdress worn by Matthäus Schwarz, a 24-year-old German fashionista in 1521. Led by historian, Professor Ulinka Rublack (St

Hello and welcome back to Mind Over Chatter! This second series is all about the future - and in this first episode we’re going to be considering what the future even is… Have you ever wondered how time works? It turns out, the answer is a lot more complicated than we thought. Please fill out our survey https://forms.gle/r9CfHpJVUEWrxoyx9 to tell us what your mind thinks about our chatter.

Part of the Darwin College Lecture Series 2010. Social scientists tell us we now live that we live in a world risk society. But what does this really mean and what, if anything, do environmental risks, health risks, and natural disasters have in common with those posed by terrorism? When we move from the natural world to human threats are we still dealing with hard science or are we in the realm