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13 Feb 2013: A quick glance through the programme reveals some exciting highlights: Professor John Gurdon, winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, will discuss his research and the future of cell replacement; Professors Andy Parker and Val

20 May 2013: The Environment and Energy Section will co-locate the currently separate Environment and Energy offices, and make a number of new appointments to support carbon reduction across the University. Led by Joanna Simpson, the team will work closely with

31 Jan 2013: It has been auctioned three times, housed in a cricket ground and 68 children once huddled in its jaws. Like many Victorian melodramas, the whale’s tale began on a dark and stormy night. Well after sunset on a winter evening in 1865, a

8 May 2013: Gathering Light, which opens tomorrow at the ArtCell Gallery in the Li Ka Shing Centre at the Cambridge Research Institute, captures the unique relationship between patient and doctor, and the hope and human spirit wrapped up in research projects.

2 Aug 2013: Cambridge's collections are opening up for a week of family-oriented activities next week as part of Summer at the Museums. Participating University museums include the Fitzwilliam, the Polar, the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, the Sedgwick

29 Apr 2013: The University is looking to help international students who want to stay in the UK after finishing their studies by endorsing them as part of the UK Border Agency’s Tier 1 (Graduate entrepreneur) scheme. The Graduate entrepreneur scheme was

16 Jul 2013: A new scheme to support the career development of research and academic staff who are going on, or have returned from, caring responsibilities has been launched. The Returning Carers Scheme offers funding to assist qualifying staff who have had a

15 May 2013: So what are Athena SWAN awards? The awards are part of the Athena SWAN Charter for women in science, which recognises commitment to advancing women’s careers in STEMM academia (science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine). More than

24 Apr 2013: The University will confer honorary doctorates at the Congregation at 2.45pm on Tuesday, 18 June 2013, at which the Chancellor, Lord Sainsbury of Turville, will preside. The distinguished individuals the University is expecting to honour are: Doctor

12 Sep 2013: Addenbrooke’s becomes the first general hospital in Europe to get the stamp of approval from a prestigious European cancer body at an event in Cambridge today. The Cambridge Cancer Centre, a partnership of Cambridge University Hospitals, the

21 Nov 2013: Cambridge cancer scientists and clinicians are set to benefit from a multi-million pound investment from Cancer Research UK (CRUK) it was revealed today. CRUK will invest more than £100 million across 15 cutting-edge research centres to help get

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

15 Jul 2013: Girton College arrives in London this August when a new play inspired by the pioneers of women's education at Cambridge opens at the Globe Theatre. Written by Jessica Swale, Blue Stockings begins in 1896 – a year before the University Senate voted

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

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

4 Dec 2013: Martin Bellamy, who will join the University in March, is currently Director of Change and ICT for the National Offender Management Service (NOMS). NOMS is an agency of the Ministry of Justice, formed in 2005, which operates the prison and probation

31 Jan 2013: Cambridge is a multifaceted, multi-layered structure that has developed organically over eight centuries. Perhaps the easiest way of understanding it is to look at the functions of the College and University, how they differ and how they overlap.

25 Feb 2013: Churchill College will be hosting a new exhibition of photographs by Sam Laughlin as part of its 50th anniversary celebrations. Architecture as Monument, which runs from 8-24 March, focuses on the modernist architecture of the College and its status

18 Sep 2013: Professor Abell, who will work part time in the post and draw on the help of a small Post-Doctoral Affairs Office, will champion the cause of post-docs at Cambridge and work with a range of offices and groups to develop a coordinated network of

12 Sep 2013: As a member of the executive of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy University and College Division, and the Chair of the Executive Committee of Heads of University Counselling Services, Géraldine has a deep understanding of