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Wanted – imaginative student photos of Cambridge!
20 November 2009
Cambridge Admissions Office is inviting current undergraduate students to send in photos they’ve taken of Cambridge that give a candid student’s eye view of the university.
Other News
Do not open until 2109
20 November 2009Eight hundred letters to the people of 2109 have been sealed and stored in Cambridge’s University Library as part of its 800th anniversary celebrations.
Her Majesty the Queen visits University to mark 800th Anniversary
19 November 2009The University of Cambridge welcomed Her Majesty the Queen and His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh KG KT, Chancellor of the University, today as part of the University’s 800th Anniversary Celebrations.
The Undergraduate Diaries – this week: music helps the medicine go down
19 November 2009Anne Pacita Boulton is in her first term at King’s College studying medicine. Already she’s getting a taste of what it will be like to be a doctor and that makes all the hard work worthwhile. She’s also learning how to cox a rowing eight on the river (often horribly early in the morning) and contributing to services in one of the world’s most famous chapels.
Sir Arthur Marshall Visiting Professorship of Sustainable Urban Design
19 November 2009The University of Cambridge has announced plans to create a new post which will give students, researchers and the wider Cambridge community a chance to benefit from the expertise of a succession of leading design and planning specialists.
Royal opening for Cosmology research building
19 November 2009The Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, today opened a new building housing the Kavli Institute for Cosmology.
International video conference on Darwin and Wallace
18 November 2009The rivalry between Charles Darwin and ‘the forgotten evolutionist’, AR Wallace to be the first to publish evidence of evolutionary theory will be the topic of the latest trans-world video link discussion hosted by the University of Cambridge and the British Council tomorrow (19th November).
£17 million awards add to momentum of UK neurodegenerative disease research
17 November 2009A Cambridge-led consortium is one of only three teams that have been awarded a share of a £17 million grant from the Wellcome Trust and the Medical Research Council (MRC) that should improve the understanding of neurodegenerative diseases.
The Kim Dae-jung Memorial
17 November 2009A special lecture tonight will pay tribute to one of Clare Hall’s most distinguished Honorary Fellows, former President of South Korea Kim Dae-jung who died on 18 August.
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