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The new CUSU committee have now taken up their new posts ahead of the 2018/19 term. Before the hand over they enjoyed mixing with their predecessors at the CUSU Garden Party at Sidney Sussex College.

If you're a student content creator at the University of Cambridge, we'd like to work with you! We're looking for up to 10 undergraduate and postgraduate students to join our new Cambridge Content Creators' programme. You'll be paid to create up to three videos per year for us on a mix of topics about life as a Cambridge student. We're proud to pay the Cambridge Living Wage of £10.90 an hour,

The winning photos from this year's Department of Engineering photo competition, sponsored by ZEISS. See many more at: http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/bullet-holes-and-graphene-caves-picturing-engineering Image credits: Rachel Garsed, Andrew Payne, Dilek Ozgit and Andrea De Luca, Kenichi Nakanishi, Alex Kendall.

What has the ERC ever done for us? Prof Ruth Cameron (Materials Science and Metallurgy) explains how an ERC grant allowed her team to develop a new biomedical technology.

The UK Government's Chief Scientific Adviser, Sir Mark Walport, speaking with CSaP's Founding Director Dr David Cleevely at the CSaP's annual conference (18th April 2013). Sir Mark delivered the keynote address at the conference, his first major speech since taking office. For more, visit: http://www.csap.cam.ac.uk/news/article-sir-mark-walport-set-out-his-priorities/

In this video, Gates Cambridge Alumna Dr Molly Fox discusses her research which suggests that people living in industrialised countries may be more likely to develop Alzheimer's. This points to what's known as the 'hygiene hypothesis', the theory that the greatly reduced contact with bacteria, viruses and other microorganisms in the developed world can lead to a weaker immune system and increased

The naked mole rat's weird biology can help us develop ways to combat painful human conditions like osteoarthritis. In Episode 2 of Naked Mole Ravolt, see what happens when a new queen arises and what a fight for supremacy reveals!

Evolution is true, Darwin got it right. Why then a new website on evolution? A fair question, but only if it was like any other website devoted to evolution. This one is different, but in what way? You’ll need to visit http://www.42evolution.org to really find out, and when you do you will immediately encounter a remarkable scope of enquiry, a thrilling range of themes, levels of accessibility

One of the earliest Anglo-Saxon Christian burial sites in Britain has been discovered in a village outside Cambridge. The grave of a teenage girl from the mid 7th century AD has an extraordinary combination of two extremely rare finds: a 'bed burial' and an early Christian artefact in the form of a stunning gold and garnet cross. The girl, aged around 16, was buried on an ornamental bed -- a very

An innovative project at the University of Cambridge will uncover some of the hidden histories of illuminated manuscripts, thanks to the application of techniques more commonly found in scientific laboratories. The MINIARE project will help conservators repair priceless works of art and provide new insights into the cultural, social and economic circumstances of their production. And, crucially