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22 Mar 2002: Today, in the last of the National Science Week 2002 Science at Seven lectures, Jeremiah Ostriker, Plumian Professor of Astronomy, will be explaining how we

24 Apr 2002: Tomorrow, Thursday 25 April, she will open a discussion in New York City organised by Cambridge in America (an organization to promote the alumni affairs and development efforts of the University

20 Mar 2002: Over 100 different elements have now been discovered. Some are extremely abundant, such as nitrogen, which makes up nearly 80 per cent of the air we breathe;

12 Sep 2002: The Festival, which runs from 9-13 September at the University of Leicester, is the largest of its kind in Europe and will see thousands of visitors coming to

30 Aug 2002: Richard Fisher, CUP Director of Humanities and Social Sciences, says that the new initiative could be the solution to a long-standing problem for academic

3 Jan 2002: A Fellow of the Royal Society Professor Horn researches the neural basis of visual recognition memory. This year he led a team of scientists commissioned by

14 Feb 2002: The American Historical Association's annual Morris D Forkosch Prize was awarded to Dr Richard Drayton for his book Nature's Government: Science, Imperial

24 Jun 2002: The honorary graduates this year are: The Right Honourable Harry Kenneth Baron Woolf of Barnes, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales (Degree of Doctor of

25 Oct 2002: Although the excavation is still at an early stage, already a cemetery, pottery kilns and a number of 'post' built houses have been identified amid the

6 Mar 2002: Richard Baker, Kettle's Yard Musician-in-Residence and Fellow of Trinity Hall college, is Musical Director and leads a cast and crew of music professionals and

18 Sep 2002: The days are intended to provide an insight into the University for students from years 11, 12 and 13. The aim is to dispel the myths that surround applying to

2 Dec 2002: The Golden Brain Award is presented by the Minerva Foundation and honours researchers who make fundamental contributions to our knowledge of vision and the

22 Feb 2002: Run by the University's Department of Architecture, with support from the French Embassy in London, the course will give four teams of students the chance to

8 Jul 2002: The conference, titled Making light of gravity, will be held at the Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, where Professor Rees is Royal Society

29 Jul 2002: This marks the first publicly funded vertebrate genome to be published after the human genome, and is an important milestone for groups using the genomes of

5 Dec 2002: The chair’s first holder, Giovanni Francesco Vigani; a contemporary and friend of Isaac Newton, taught as chemistry was emerging as a distinct discipline from

22 Nov 2002: Faulty BRCA2 not only causes breast cancer in up to 60 per cent of women who inherit it, but also raises the risk of ovarian cancer and prostate cancer in men

4 Nov 2002: The Society for Neuroscience is an American non-profit organisation of international scientists and physicians who study the brain and nervous system. It

26 Jun 2002: Ideas for change were first published earlier this year. Extensive internal consultation has taken place over the last few months, leading to today's refined

23 Sep 2002: With the likes of Sir Michael Latham, Ted Cullinan, Max Fordham and Vicky Sirianni of Massachusetts Institute of Technology giving presentations, Cambridge

27 Mar 2002: A Fellow of Darwin College and Honorary Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, Milstein was one of the leading figures at the Medical Research Council's

5 Aug 2002: Chasing out something alive: drawings and painted reliefs 1950-75 runs until 22 September 2002. The exhibition brings together two opposite but complementary

25 Oct 2002: That is the challenge. Philanthropic support, particularly from alumni, is one of the ways Cambridge has successfully achieved that balance. ... The University greatly values the help of alumni in meeting the challenges it faces.

18 Oct 2002: The Cambridge team was led by Alan Dashwood, Professor of European Law and a member of the Centre for European Legal Studies. Although the document represents

9 Sep 2002: The conference will mark the retirement of Professor Calladine after 42 years on the teaching staff. Former research students, collaborators, and colleagues

15 Mar 2002: The 2002 theme is The Elements and visitors will be invited to find out about every element of science, from volcanoes to the environment and into outer space.

20 Dec 2002: January Stephen Hawking celebrates 60th birthday Professor Hawking addressed an audience of distinguished academics from across the world who had gathered in

30 Apr 2002: The William H Gates Building is home to the University's Computer Laboratory and celebrated its official opening on 1 May 2002. The West Cambridge site is part

25 Sep 2002: Tomorrow (Thursday 26 September), Dr Robert Hunt will give a light-hearted tour around the usefulness of maths in the real world. In light of the national drop

21 Jan 2002: The Judge Institute of Management scored particularly well for the career progress of its MBA alumni - it was rated third highest in the world in this category. ... It also achieved excellent ratings for the size of its alumni'ssalaries and for the

30 Oct 2002: The purpose-built wing will enable the Archives Centre to house the Thatcher Papers alongside the archives of other prominent politicians, civil servants,

10 Apr 2002: The Interdisciplinary Centre for Nanoscience will make devices or structures that are only a few nanometres in size (much smaller than the diameter of a single

22 Jul 2002: The German/UK research team included three Cambridge archaeologists. The team extracted mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) - a type of DNA inherited from the mother and

8 Nov 2002: At a conference to formally open CGKP, Professor Sir Alec Broers, Vice Chancellor of the University of Cambridge said: "This initiative will have appeal and

28 Aug 2002: Their work describes the progress of these initial four patients six months after they received the transplants. Essentially the team shows the procedure to be

22 Apr 2002: Plastic Logic was founded in 2000 to exploit new technology and processes which use inkjet printing to make active electronic circuits from advanced plastic

9 Aug 2002: Heading the new team is CUSU President Paul Lewis. Other members of the team are: Access Officer: Steph Hawryla Services Officer: Craig Wilkie Academic Affairs

18 Oct 2002: In his book Orientalism Professor Said made one of the most profound and lasting contributions to contemporary understandings of the relationship between power

17 May 2002: The final two lectures are by Naila Kabeer, a Fellow of the Institute for Development Studies at Sussex University and Dame Marilyn Strathern, Professor of

14 Nov 2002: He proposed that a statement should be issued and following is the agreed statement: "Cambridge University wants to remain a centre of academic excellence. To

9 Dec 2002: Dr. Hwang was accompanied by a number of senior Samsung officials and His Excellency Ambassador Jong-Yil Ra, the South Korean Ambassador to the UK, and Mr

3 May 2002: Dr Dunbar is a veteran of five space flights, and has spent a total of 50 days in space, orbiting the earth 796 times. Most recently she was Payload Commander

3 Oct 2002: The annual awards are organised by Contract Journal Magazine, the construction business weekly journal, and are recognised as one of the most prestigious

20 Dec 2002: The Greensleeves Project is Cambridge University Library's in-house retrospective conversion project. It was established in October 1994 as a pilot project to

21 Jun 2002: The competition asked architects to come up with a design for a new colonnade; or covered walkway, that will form the link between two social ‘squares’ on the

19 Nov 2002: Awarded in recognition of the outstanding contribution that the Project has made to the intellectual, economic, cultural and social life of the nation, the

8 Jan 2002: Stephen wanted to do mathematics at University College Oxford but mathematics was not available so he did physics instead. He was awarded a first class honours

15 May 2002: Last week historical demographers made headline news with the revelation that Western governments are seriously underestimating how long their citizens are

14 Jun 2002: Project Director Charlie Gilderdale says the scheme is meeting a very real need: "There is a growing pressure on schools to focus on science and technology but

16 Jan 2002: Speaking at a major conference on genetics and health, Alan Milburn set out his vision of how advances in genetics could transform the future delivery of