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Explore our range of online and in person events for more advice about applying to Cambridge and preparing for student life: www.undergraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/events Three of our new students and their parents tell us about preparing for their university experience. #GoingToCambridge

Forbes lists Ifeyinwa Frederick as one of the top 100 female founders in Europe after she set up Chuku's, a Nigerian Tapas restaurant she co-founded with her brother Emeka. Ifeyinwa studied Classics at Robinson College and is about to see her new play 'The Hoes' premiere on the Hampstead Theatre this October. Visit the Black Cantabs exhibition at the University Library, for more details visit:

Cell biology and evolutionary medicine. Professor Sir Paul Nurse (Rockefeller University, New York, USA). Summary: Darwins ideas of the tree of life and natural selection continue to inform medicine and biomedical research. For example, the single tree of life means that model organisms from bacteria to mice can be recruited to better understand human health and disease, whilst natural selection

Researchers have captured the first 3D video of a living algal embryo turning itself inside out, from a sphere to a mushroom shape and back again. The results could help unravel the mechanical processes at work during a similar process in animals, which has been called the “most important time in your life.” Read more at: http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/upside-down-and-inside-out

Why does one of the world's great research libraries have ectoplasm, a spirit trumpet and beard hair posted to Charles Darwin? The answers lie within 'Curious Objects' at Cambridge University Library, which runs until March 2017 and is open free to the public. For more information about Curious Objects, click here:

A photoreceptor molecule in plant cells has been found to moonlight as a thermometer after dark – allowing plants to read seasonal temperature changes. Scientists say the discovery could help breed crops that are more resilient to the temperatures expected to result from climate change. Find out more here:

These tiny oil droplets may hold a key to a new mechanism that drives the development of shapes and forms in nature, a process known as morphogenesis. When the droplets are slowly frozen, they shift through a range of different shapes. This shape-shifting is driven by a wax-like layer that forms beneath the surface of the droplets, suggesting that complex morphogenesis may be controlled by the

If you want to learn more about studying as an postgraduate student, sign up for our November Virtual Open Days here: https://bit.ly/PGOpenDays2021 You can sign-up to the student newsletter to keep in touch with the University of Cambridge here: https://www.undergraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/find-out-more/student-newsletter Jackson Wo attends Jesus College and is studying for a PhD in Material Sciences

Matt Coombes moved to Cambridge from Newcastle-upon-Tyne and quickly found a new family at his College and on his course. Fear of being away from home should never be a thing that puts people off, he says. Find out about applying to Cambridge: http://bit.ly/ApplyCambridge-M Matt is a Land Economy student at Homerton College. He went to Lord Lawson of Beamish Academy in Gateshead.

Professor Bill Sutherland wrote The Conservation Handbook and the snappily titled From Individual Behaviour to Population Biology. He is interested in finding means of providing free conservation books to developing countries and enabling practicing conservationists to learn from each other. In September he came to Cambridge from the University of East Anglia to become the new Miriam Rothschild