February 1995

Volume 6 No 1

Contents

Royal Opening

HRH The Princess Margaret officially opened the exhibition, which was
held at Christie's galleries in King Street from 5th to 25th January.
Posters on the London Underground and features in national newspapers
helped to ensure that the exhibition secured one of the largest ever
attendances at an exhibition at Christie's.
During the exhibition, which was featured in the last edition of
Newsletter, special receptions were held to explain Cambridge activities
in a number of different areas, including the Arts, Law, Europe and
Engineering. During these events, distinguished former students recalled
their time at Cambridge and explained why the University needs support.
At the opening, Her Royal Highness remarked:
"This exhibition, 'Foundations for the Future', is unique in the life of
the University. It serves as a visual display of some  of the highlights
of the University of Cambridge's achievements over the past 500 years,
and illustrates for us all the remarkable work taking place now, whilst
also demonstrating the plans for the future.
"It acts as a reminder that the University is a guardian of many rare
and beautiful objects, and it is a wonderful treat for people to have a
chance to see some of these at Christie's.
"Set against this vivid back-drop is the hard task of ensuring that the
quality that is the work of the University, which is so important both
nationally and internationally, is carried on into the future.
"Therefore, it is very encouraging to learn that through the work of the
Campaign for Cambridge, so many individuals, companies and foundations
have provided the means to support the continued development of this
great University."
The exhibition was the first project of its kind to be undertaken by an
English university. It featured a wide range of exhibits from 76 lenders
around the University and Colleges, many of which have never been on
public show before. The Cambridge Evening News ran coach trips to the
exhibition.
Princess Margaret received a Cambridge honorary degree in 1958 and has
made many visits over the years, including occasions such as the opening
of the University's Chemical Laboratories in Lensfield Road and the
inauguration of the University's Clinical School of Medicine on the new
Addenbrooke's site.

Editorial

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Royal Naval Unit

The Army's Officer Training Corps and the RAF's University Air Squadron
have been firmly established at the University since 1860 and 1925
respectively. It is only more recently that University Royal Naval Units
have been set up. Aberdeen being the first in 1967, followed by Units at
London, Manchester, Southampton, Bristol, Liverpool, Glasgow and Sussex.
Cambridge URNU is one of six new Units established in 1994, the others
being at Birmingham, Cardiff, Hull, Newcastle and Oxford.
The URNU is designed to give a student an insight into the Royal Navy
and in the way of life in the armed services of today. It offers
opportunities for development of character and leadership, preparation
for the responsibilities of a challenging modern world, and an
introduction to navigation and seamanship.
Cambridge URNU, co-located with the University Air Squadron at 2 Chaucer
Road, was formed on 1 April 1994 with Lieutenant Commander Kevin
Broadley, Royal Navy, as the Officer-in -Charge. This year, forty
undergraduates were recruited to the Unit, equally split between the
sexes. The undergraduates join the Unit with the rank of Honorary
Midshipmen in the Royal Naval Reserve and they are provided with the
appropriate uniform and for each day spent with the Unit, will be paid
by the Navy at the standard RNR rates, with the added bonus of a bounty
at the end of each full-year's programme. Sea training is carried out in
the Unit's training vessel, the Loyal Watcher, a Fleet Tender based at
Ipswich. The ship as accommodation for twelve students, is fitted with
all necessary navigation equipment, and is manned by its own full-time
Royal Navy crew.
During term-time, shore-based training by four RNR Training Officers
takes place on Thursday evenings. This involves theoretical and
practical instruction in seamanship, navigation and chartwork,
supplemented by talks from visiting lecturers on associated topics. Also
included will be sessions to promote leadership skills through practical
team exercises and sport. The aim of these training nights is to create
team spirit and group discipline, and to impart the sound basic
knowledge of seamanship required for the sea training carried out by the
Midshipmen during weekends away at sea.
During the Easter and Long vacations, the Unit's vessel will run a
programme of training deployments. These may last up to six weeks, and
each unit member is required to undertake two weeks onboard during a
deployment each year. Regular destinations include the Channel Islands,
France, Belgium, Germany and the Western Isles of Scotland. This summer
it is hoped to deploy to Lisbon in company with Oxford URNU. In addition
to the starkly 'naval' training that is carried out within an URNU,
members will be encouraged to take part in a wide range of sporting
activities against the OTC or the UAS and their counterparts in other
universities. Opportunities exist for adventure training, particularly
in activities such as parachuting, sailing, skiing and hang-gliding. A
programme of social events is also arranged.
The Unit has got off to a flourishing start and recently held its
Inaugural Dinner at Peterhouse. The Second Sea Lord, Admiral Sir Michael
Layard, was guest of honour and the principal academic guest was the
Vice-Chancellor, University of Cambridge, Professor Sir David Williams
QC.

Update

Equal Opportunities

The University's association with the Opportunity 2000 campaign, which
is a national campaign to increase the quality and quantity of women's
employment opportunities, has recently celebrated its first birthday.
The University joined the campaign in November 1993, and responsibility
for working towards its objectives was given to Felicity Hunt of the
General Board Office and Jenny Woodhouse of the Assistant Staff Office,
whose posts include responsibility for Equal Opportunities.
Felicity Hunt is one of the General Board's personnel team. She is a
member of the Opportunity 2000 universities' national steering group and
provides some equal opportunities training for the University's
mainstream staff development programme. Jenny Woodhouse has
responsibility for industrial relations and equal opportunities for
support staff, and is secretary of the national Higher Education Equal
Opportunities Network. Both Felicity and Jenny are accredited trainers
for the Springboard Women's Development Programme, available to all
women staff and graduate students.
At the end of the first year of membership of the campaign, the
University has published the goals towards which it will be working over
the next few years. Much emphasis is laid on investigating existing good
practice in the University in order to communicate this practice and
build on it throughout the University. Future work will also be based on
the collection of statistical information, in order to measure changes
in the patterns of recruitment, selection, appointment and promotion of
staff and in the admission and progress of research students. Much
emphasis will be placed on family friendly policies which will enable
men and women to balance their personal and their working lives. It is
hoped to develop and expand existing childcare provision following the
successful creation of a 50-place University day nursery, and further to
develop policies such as maternity and paternity leave arrangements.
At the heart of the campaign is the goal of achieving changes in
attitudes and expectations throughout the University community. Part of
this is to examine practices in teaching and research, as well as in
staffing matters, to ensure that styles and procedures are not
unconsciously gender-related. So the Opportunity 2000 campaign is likely
to affect all members of the University community in various ways, and
it is hoped that the developments and changes it entails will in the
long run enhance the life of all.

Sedgwick Museum Mineral Gallery

The Whewell Gallery of Minerals at the Sedgwick Museum of Geology was
officially opened by the Master of Trinity and President of the Royal
Society Sir Michael Atiyah in November.
The work was accomplished through work by Dr Graham Chinner, Curator of
Minerals. The displays were developed by designer Chris Hall, and
technical staff of the Museum including Stephen Laurie, Rod Long, Mike
Dorling and Nicola Payton.
The Gallery houses the University's collection of over 40,000 mineral
specimens, making it the third largest in the United Kingdom. The
gallery has been named after the William Whewell who was the
University's third Professor of Minerology before later becoming
Professor of Moral Philosophy and then Master of Trinity. He was a
contemporary and friend of the Reverend Adam Sedgwick at Cambridge.

Indic Research

The first institute in Europe dedicated solely to the study of India's
cultural and scientific traditions and their applications to the
contemporary world begins its work this month following a benefaction
from the Hinduja Foundation (UK).
The Dharam Hinduja Institute of Indic Research will draw on sources of
Indian knowledge from the Vedic tradition originating more than 3,500
years ago.
The Institute is named after Dharam, the late son of Mr Srichand P
Hinduja, Chairman of the Hinduja Foundation. Mr Hinduja said: "The
purpose of this Institute is not only to research the ancient Vedic
traditions, but to find ways to make this rich treasury of
philosophical, scientific and practical wisdom relevant to the daily
lives and problems of mankind. In recent years, in Europe as well as in
the United States, these teachings have attracted renewed interest."
The Institute will be a part of the Centre for Advanced Religious and
Theological Studies in the Faculty of Divinity. The first Director of
the Institute will be Dr Julius Lipner, Lecturer in Indian and the
Comparative Study of Religion.

CERN Visit

In December, 119 students and staff made a visit to CERN, the European
centre for research into particle physics. The visit was organised by
Brenda Jennison of the Department of Education who lived to tell the
tale to Newsletter:
'Ask any sixth form student why they study physics, or do not as the
case may be, and you'll get similar answers. What they are interested in
are the big questions and if possible their answers. What they are not
interested in is the diet of Newton's Laws, diffraction and
thermodynamics as portrayed in the core of the A-level physics syllabus.
It seems to them old fashioned, (it was not discovered yesterday),
unexciting (the dry bones of physics in a text book), a male pursuit
(almost inevitable given the date of the discoveries) and nothing to do
with the real world (frictionless pulleys and so on).
The Cambridge Physics Centre, held at the Cavendish Laboratory, has
since 1979 organised events for schools and teachers. The lectures for
sixth formers reflect the hypothesis that sixth form students are
interested in physics if you offer them the right physics.
With this in mind we began to plan the latest physics extravaganza. In
December 1993 we visited CERN on a tour organised by Oundle School on
behalf of other schools. It was a tremendous experience in spite of the
twenty-eight hours coach journey and a force ten gale on the Channel.
There had to be a better way. For shorter tours it would have to be by
air. The problem to be faced was how to hire an aircraft. With help from
the Institute of Physics, this problem was solved and they generously
loaned us a deposit. So for 14 pounds, 590 (including the new airport
tax) we were the proud owners of an aircraft for the day flying out of
Stansted Airport just over half an hour's drive from Cambridge.
Since the Institute of Physics published the Particle Physics Module for
A-level a number of schools have been to CERN over the last two or three
years. So what was new about our trip? It was part of an intensive 48
hours of physics based in Cambridge which just happened to include a
flight in order to see the experiment! Three of the Cavendish research
groups were involved. It made a very strong point about the
internationalism of science when the lecturers in Cambridge and some of
the tour organisers in CERN were part of the same High Energy Physics
Group based in Cambridge so that both 'halves' knew what the others were
going to say.

Thursday

Students from 17 schools, carrying their bedding rolls (to save money),
arrived at the Cavendish to face four university lectures -- by Dr Jeff
Hughes, now at the University of Manchester, Dr Val Gibson, Dr Richard
Batley and Dr Andy Parker -- before they would be allowed to go to bed.
Most of them had very little knowledge of 'the particle world' other
than a simple GCSE picture of protons, electrons and neurons so this is
where we started.

Friday

The alarm went at 3.30 am and breakfast was rushed before the minibuses
set off for Stansted airport. We arrived in Geneva with the help of a
tail wind in an hour and a quarter and were quickly transported to the
CERN lecture theatre where we had a short introduction and a video
before being split into three groups to visit the site.
A visit to Microcosm, the hands on visitor's centre, shows the work of
CERN and it gave everyone a final briefing about what they were going to
see. There is plenty here for a full day's visit on its own if the
computerised exhibits are to be studied in any detail.
Then it was off across the border into France to visit the OPAL
experimental area on the LEP accelerator. A hundred metres below the
surface the 27 kilometre tunnel crosses the border speeding up electrons
to 0.99994 of the speed of light.
Then it was back across the border to the SPS (Super Proton Synchrotron)
where the W and Z particles were discovered in 1983 (modern physics and
a recent Nobel Prize!) We saw a fixed target experiment concerned with
muons investigating the spin structure of protons and neutrons. We were
fortunate when we visited the control room for the SPS and LEP
accelerators as it was a 'critical day'. This means that Geneva needs
the power and so CERN has to close down its heavy demand. (LEP needs the
same power as the peak demand in Cambridge, a city of 100,000). The
controllers were therefore free to explain how the whole system works.
Winter is a good time to visit CERN as many of the experiments are
undergoing routine maintenance at this time of year and the experimental
areas can be seen. The day concluded with a final discussion before
flying back to Stansted. Saturday Professor Malcolm Longair lectured on
'Big Bang Physics'. He took us on a tour of the Universe and its size in
seven logarithmic steps using a few simple laws from school physics.
Professor Richard Hills then introduced us to the radio telescopes at
Lord's Bridge before the group split up to visit the radio telescopes
and the electron microscopes introduced by Professor Archie Howie.
By lunchtime a very tired group of students clambered aboard minibuses
and headed home. It had been a fantastic experience which we had all
enjoyed. We had seen glimpses of physics research today and hopefully
some of those who took part will want to go on and become physicists,
maybe solving some of the problems posed in the last two days. Would one
of them sitting in the Pippard Lecture Theatre today be collecting a
Nobel Prize in the 21st Century?

The Cambridge Greek Play

Come and see an adult pantomime at the Corn Exchange! An age old comedy
will be given new life in a series of performances starting on 22nd
February.  In 1995, the triennial Cambridge Greek Play is the Birds by
Aristophanes, and promises to be a spectacular presentation of the story
of how a man learns to fly like the birds and how birds behave as
foolishly as men. It will be in the original Greek language, but don't
let that put you off - the play was chosen specifically as it is easy to
understand the plot without being a classical linguist!
The director of this year's play, Dictynna Hood, holds the Judith E
Wilson Fellowship for theatre and literature in the Faculty of English,
and has spent most of her tenure preparing for this great theatrical
fantasy. She is no stranger to the rarefied atmosphere of the Cambridge
Greek Play, having directed The Bacchae in 1989. However, the history of
this triennial event goes way back 1882 when an American archaeologist,
Charles Waldstein, directed the first Cambridge Greek Play Ajax. It was
such a success that special trains ran to and from King's Cross to
accommodate theatre-goers! The national critical acclaim of the plays
has continued from then until today, and has included many debuts by
such names as James Mason, who made his first stage appearance in the
chorus of the 1930 production of The Bacchae.
Since the early years, the Greek Play has always been performed in the
Arts Theatre. However, this year will mark a departure from tradition,
brought on by the renovation and development of the Arts Theatre
premises, and for the first time the play will take place in the Corn
Exchange. The stage will be set in the middle of the floor with audience
on both sides.
The cast are almost all students, but only half of them are classicists,
so with the able assistance of the Orator, Mr Antony Bowen, the students
have been receiving a crash course in dramatic Greek! Dictynna promises
that there will be no togas, and emphasised that the comedy and drama of
the play could be equally applicable to society today, with its joint
themes of the search for power and imperialism. It's not altogether
surprising to realise that society has not changed all that much in 24
centuries! When I asked her to sum the play up in a sentence (always a
nasty question), she came up with the following; "It is a comedy with a
sharp sting in the tail, about the achievement of freedom at the expense
of others". And in answer to the question of what was the one thing she
most wanted the audience to take home, it was the magic world of flight.
"We would like to give the audience the feeling, even for a brief
moment, of what it is like to fly like a bird".
It promises to be a feast for the senses, with specially designed
costumes, strong choreography and lighting, and with a commissioned
music score by Andrew Lovett (Magdalene 1982). There are fourteen
choruses which will be performed by singers and instrumentalists, as
well as some atmospheric music which has been engineered into bird calls
from human voice work pre-recorded by the cast! Contemporary music often
finds expression through ancient means, and Andrew Lovett feels that his
music is ideally suited to the world of this play.
So, why not be brave, and experience some ancient pantomime.You may be
pleasantly surprised!
                                                      Jonathan Sanders
Performances are at 2.30pm and 8.00pm from 22nd to 25th February.
Tickets are priced at 12 pounds, 9 pounds and 6 pounds for unwaged and
full-time students, and are available at the Corn Exchange Box Office on
01223 357851.

Awards and Prizes

RIBA Award for Architecture

Senior Lecturer at the Department of Architecture, Dr Dean Hawkes has
just been awarded an RIBA Award for Architecture for not one but two
buildings which he designed in partnership with Stephen Greenberg. The
buildings are The Friary, Malden, Essex -- a public library and social
services building commissioned by Essex County Council -- and the
renovation of The Prinipal's Lodge, Newnham College -- where Greenberg
and Hawkes converted the central court into an internal double height
space for recitals and receptions.
This is a most remarkable achievement. The standard of the Awards is
very high and it is very unusual for any practice to gain two Awards in
one year; two years ago, Hawkes and Greenberg's last building, Dean
Hawkes' own house in Gisborne Road, Cambridge also won an award. All
three buildings incorporate the results of Hawkes' research into aspects
of environmental design and have also been exhibited in the Architecture
Room at successive Royal Academy Summer Exhibitions. Dr Hawkes has had
his work exhibited at the Academy on no less than seven occasions in the
last nine years  -- an achievement that several Academicians could not
equal. Stephen Greenberg is a Cambridge graduate.

Wolf Foundation Prize

Professor Michael Berridge of the Babraham Institute Laboratory of
Molecular Signalling and the Department of Zoology has been named as one
of two laureates in medicine for the 1994/5 Wolf Prize, along with
Professor Yasutomi Nishizuka of the Kobe University School of Medicine,
Japan.
The two laureates will share the $100,000 award of the Israel-based
Foundation for their discoveries concerning cellular transmembrane
signalling involving phospholipid and calcium. The Wolf jury stated that
'working independently, Berridge and Nishizuka have dramatically
advanced our understanding of single transduction cascades that regulate
a wide variety of cellular processes. The discoveries made by Professor
Berridge and Nishizuka have enriched our understanding of how cells
decipher messages from the external environment, and provide new
insights into pathological processes and action of pharmacological
agents.'
The 1994/5 Wolf Prizes will be presented in March by the President of
Israel.

Amex Awards

Dr Ajit Singh of the Faculty of Economics and Politics has recently won
a $5,000 Bronze Award in the 1994 Amex Award Competition for his essay,
"How do Large Corporations in Developing Countries Finance their
Growth?"
Dr Singh collected his award at Chatham House in London in November,
where the judges said that they had looked for quality that merits wide
attention, essays which are worthy of extensive publication and add to
the international debate in finance and economics by providing new
analyses, perspectives, judgements or ideas.
Dr Singh was especially pleased about the award because it gives his
recent new line of research on corporate finance, corporate organisation
and industrial development in and industrial economies wide
international exposure.

Tribology Trust Awards

The 1994 Silver Tribology Trust Medal was awarded to Dr Ian Hutchings of
the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy at a ceremony held at
the Institution of Mechanical Engineers' Headquarters in London in
December.
The award was made in recognition of his outstanding contributions to
tribology ranging from the fundamental science of tribology to the
solution of industrial problems for an unusually wide range of
industries. The Tribology Silver Medal is the highest national award in
tribology and is awarded to persons working or researching in the field
of tribology, for exceptionally meritorious contribuion to the science
and technology of tribology.
Dr Hutchings is a Fellow of both the Institute of Materials and the
Institute of Physics. He has published more than 140 learned papers on
the subject of tribology and other topics in materials science and
technology.

HEIST Awards

Cambridge, the magazine of the Cambridge Society, was rated joint
'highly commended' in the 1994 awards made by Heist (The Higher
Education Information Services Trust) in the Alumni Publication
category.
The Cambridge Society was founded by the University in 1976. Its purpose
is to spread information about the University to members and others. It
operates through a network of Branches, in the UK and many other
countries. The Branches organise a wide variety of events, and often
invite speakers from the University to bring them up to date on what is
happening in research, and in the University generally.
Each April the Society Day takes place in Cambridge, generally attended
by some 300 members, and marked by the Annual Society Address, and by
other talks, and visits to Colleges and Departments. Membership of the
Society is open to all who matriculated at Cambridge, and to visiting
scholars, participants in short courses and (by nomination) others who
support the objects of the Society.
Run by a staff of one full-time and two part-time people, the Society
operates from a small office in Cambridge, provided by the University,
and is financed by members' subscriptions, and investments.
The magazine Cambridge is published twice a year. To quote the Heist
judges: "The content is excellent and readable and there is a most
interesting mix of articles by some distinguished authors. It is not as
'old-fashioned as it may first appear; for example, it addresses very
fully and thoughtfully the position of women in college life. This
publication provides a sound example that intellectual content (surely
paramount in a magazine from a distinguished university) need not be
sacrificed to form and fashion".

Schlumberger award

Each year Schlumberger makes grants to academics in many universities
through the Schlumberger Stichting Fund for Science, Technology and
Research. Recently, it made three such awards to Cambridge University
academics and had a very enjoyable lunch to present the cheques. The
awards, which totalled $65,000 were made to Professor Peter Goddard of
the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Dr Chris Lowe,
Institute of Biotechnology, and Professor Bob White, Department of Earth
Sciences. Over the past 10 years, this same fund has made a number of
other grants to the University.

Max Hey Medal

Dr Simon Redfern of the Department of Earth Sciences has been awarded
the Max Hey Medal of the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and
Ireland for his work in the fields of mineralogy and crystallography.
The Medal is awarded annually to workers under the age of 35 to
recognise 'existing and ongoing research of excellence'. Dr Redfern's
work on the high-temperature and high-pressure properties of crystals is
providing new insights into why and how the crystal structures of
rock-forming minerals transform under the varying environments of the
Earth's interior.

Partnership Awards

The Department of Engineering has once again hit the headlines for the
development of a brand new system to make an engineer's life easy! The
choice of material for component designs can often make all the
difference between a product being a commercial success or failure. In
the face of increasing competition, design innovation through the use of
new materials may offer the key to improved product performance. With
some 80,000 materials currently available, the design engineer is faced
with a bewildering choice.
Consequently, Professor Mike Ashby and Dr David Cebon have created a
system which will help engineers to choose the most suitable material
for a project, which also acts as a teaching aid for students to
understand the material selection process. In fact, the Cambridge
Materials Selector (CMS) was originally developed to teach engineering
design students at Cambridge how to consider different materials for
various engineering requirements. The CMS has just gained national
recognition by winning the prestigious British Steel Prize 1994 for
Education in Metallurgy and Materials Science, one of the annual
Partnership Awards. This is the third year running that Cambridge has
been among the winners of these national awards.
For each material, over 50 important properties are listed, covering
mechanical, thermal and electrical characteristics, cost, resistance to
environmental attack, forming and joining methods, available forms,
typical uses, sources of supply and much more! These attributes can be
used in mathematical and logical combination during the selection
process to select materials from the CMS database for optimum
performance of the finished product.

Living Traditions

A special exhibition opens in February at the University Museum of
Archaeology and Anthropology. Entitled 'Living Traditions: Continuity
and Change, Past and Present', the exhibition places recent acquisitions
alongside historical and archaeological material.
It focuses on seven distinct cultural areas and historical periods:
Aboriginal Australia, the Swahili in Eastern Africa, Concheros dancers
in Mexico, Powwows in North America, the Northwest Coast of Canada,
Roman Britain and the University of Cambridge.
'Living Traditions' emphasises the dynamic or processional nature of
tradition. One of the underlying themes is the creation and maintenance
of cultural boundaries, particularly during periods of rapid change.
The exhibition celebrates the adaptive and creative force of individual
artists and their originating communities and highlights the museum's
commitment to collecting and documenting aspects of contemporaary
cultures throughout the world. The Museum, engaged in contemporary
events, has a responsibility to collect for the future.
This exhibition is supplemented by a book of illustrated essays under
the same title. It was edited by Anita Herle and David Phillipson at the
University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and produced in
conjuction with the editors of the journal Cambridge Anthropology.

News in Brief

McDonald Institute

The McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research was opened by HRH The
Prince of Wales in November. The Prince, who studied archaeology and
anthropology at Trinity College in the 1960's, was brought up to date
with the research that is currently taking place.
The new Institute was founded through the generosity of Dr Daniel
McDonald, and industrialist and engineer, who gave 11m pounds to the
University. Dr McDonald was a keen amateur archaeologist himself and he
took a close interest in the development of the Institute and approved
the final building plans just a few days before his death in 1991. The
ceremony was attended by his widow, Winifred McDonald, who has laid the
foundation stone of the building in 1992. Prince Charles was shown how
pots and cooking vessels excavated in Amarna in Egypt are used for
research into ancient Egyptian techniques of baking and beermaking.
The new Institute is housed in two buildings, designed by Michael Cain
of the Casson Conder Partnership. The main building has four floors,
finished in brick and stone. The second building is an infill block of
the western range of the Downing quadrangle, and is also finished in
brick and stone.

Tree planting

Schoolchildren from Morley Memorial School joined past and present
members of Homerton College last term to celebrate Homerton's Centenary
by planting a tree in the College grounds.
Morley Memorial School was established by Homerton in 1899 to provide a
school for teaching practice for Homerton's trainee teachers. Samuel
Morley was a founder and Treasurer of Homerton and the school is named
after his father, a leading Victorian educationalist. Morley School
continues to work closely with the College and its children use
Homerton's extensive grounds for games and sport.
The children planted a Flowering Cherry, chosen for its quick growth and
early flowering. By contrast the Principal, Dr Kate Pretty, planted a
specimen of the world's longest-living species, a Bristlecone Pine.

First MBA graduates

In December 1994, the first ever cohort of Cambridge MBA's were awarded
their degrees. The MBA course -- Masters in Business Administration --
is one of the key activities for the Judge Institute of Management
Studies.
Since the 20 pioneers first arrived in Cambridge in October 1991, the
course has developed significantly. Of the 60 students who will start
next October, about 45 will be on a two year version of the course
rather than the original three year version. But the essential
characteristics of the programme remain unchanged. The course has a
sandwich structure combining study in Cambridge with work-based projects
and demands high academic standards combined with a strong emphasis on
management practice and leadership skills.
The Judge Institute of Management Studies was established in 1990
following an 8 million pound benefaction by Mr and Mrs Paul Judge and a
further generous donation of 5 million pounds by Mr Simon Sainsbury. It
now has about 30 teaching and research faculties and over 200 students,
and is continuing to grow rapidly. In the summer of 1995 it will move
into a major complex of new buildings, incorporating the Old
Addenbrooke's hospital in the heart of the University.
Courses offered include the MBA, an MPhil and a graduate Diploma as well
as an undergraduate programme in management and joint programmes in
management and engineering. Drawing on a research base of international
repute, the PhD programme in management studies is already one of the
largest in Europe.

Careers Initiative

The Careers Service is playing a leading role in a pilot scheme to
involve universities in EURES -- the European Commission's
newly-launched scheme to encourage mobility of labour in Europe. The
EURES scheme, launched by Commissioner Padraig Flynn, consists of a
network of trained Euro- Advisors who have access to powerful computer
databases of vacancies and information about living and working
conditions in 16 European countries. Major partners in the scheme are
the Public Employment Services in each country, but the system is also
of great interest to universities whose graduates are amongst the most
mobile European citizens.
Tony Raban, Head of Cambridge University Careers Service, is co-Director
of the University Pilot Project, which involves 17 universities in six
of the Member States. He is one of the Euro- Advisers and Cambridge is
one of the pilot sites. Tony Raban said: "This is an exciting new
venture and we are delighted that Cambridge is so heavily involved.
Cambridge graduates have always had a very international outlook and we
have an increasing number of students from Continental Europe studying
here. This system will enable us to give them even more help in taking
advantage of the integrated European labour market".
The University pilot scheme is being run under the auspices of the
Liaison Committee of European Rectors' conferences, which includes the
Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals in the UK.

People

Head of House

Professor John Gurdon became Master of Magdalene College on 1 January
1995. The President, Dr P. Grubb, was Acting Master from 1 October to 31
December 1994.
Professor Gurdon is best known for his work on cloning (nuclear
transplantation) and for his pioneering work on the microinjection of
messenger RNA into living cells.  His cloning work provided the first,
and arguably still the clearest, evidence that almost all cells of the
body contain the same set of genes.
His current work concerns a new phenomenon called the community effect
by which cells of the same kind transmit signals to each other to enable
them to progress, as a uniform and coordinated community of cells to
their eventual fate. Professor Gurdon is Chairman of the Wellcome/CRC
Institute of Cancer and Developmental Biology.

Engineering Retirement

Dr Len Squire has led research into supersonic aerodynamics at the
Department of Engineering for 31 years and has finally decided to settle
down to the slower pace of retirement. In addition to his long service
at Cambridge, he also worked as one of the principal scientists at the
Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough (now called the Defence
Research Agency) on the design of the wing shape of Concorde, and much
faster aircraft such as the "Wave-Rider" which have as yet not been
built.
Dr Squire retired from the Department of Engineering at the end of
December 1994, and to mark his distinguished service in this field, the
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) have elected
him to a Fellowship of the Institute.

Howard King

Mr Howard King retired at the end of December 1994 from the position of
Secretary-General of the Oxford and Cambridge Schools Examination Board.
He was the longest serving secretary of all the country's examination
Boards having succeeded to the Secretaryship of the Cambridge Office in
1969.
Syllabus development has been a constant theme during his time. As well
as national work, he ensured that the Board itself, was in the forefront
of syllabus development working together with such bodies as Nuffield,
Salters, MEI (Mathematics for Engineering and Industry) and SMP
(Schools' Mathematics Project). More recently he has put his energies
into producing a new Diploma of Achievement scheme.
One of the many attributes that Howard brought to his job was that of
his accessibility and his sympathetic response to schools' problems.
When time permitted he would visit schools as the Biology visiting
examiner and experience the anxieties of candidates first hand. His
quiet warmth of welcome, whether on the phone, in the office or on
arrival at a meeting, was always the same, well prepared, and never
ruffled however busy he was, gave confidence to all.
In his job he might be closeted with the Secretary of State for
Education one day, and meeting to revise the English Literature Syllabus
the next. He cared particularly about his contacts with awarders and
built up a mutual trust which ensured the smooth conduct of the
examining process. He was always prepared to spend Saturday afternoons
at meetings of subject teachers. This has been achieved at a cost of
many early starts to the mornings, cycling to Cambridge Station for the
7.33, writing replies to letters by hand on the train and dropping into
his office on the way home to draft papers into the early hours.
A life long Methodist, he is a Lay Preacher and received an award in
1988 recognising 40 years of distinguished service to the church in that
role. Most Sundays he is involved in taking services in chapels in the
local circuit.
                                                 Geoff Houghton, OCSEB

David Lipman

David Lipman is a technician who on January 3 1995 achieved forty years'
service with the University. On leaving school, he joined the Department
of Physiology as a trainee instrument maker in 1955.  He was called up
for National Service in 1960, joining the RAF as a teleprinter operator.
He served for two years, leaving in 1962 to rejoin the Department of
Physiology. In 1966 he moved from there to the Department of Applied
Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, to a job which he still holds. He
began work here as assistant to Dr (later Professor) John Elder,
becoming involved in the CATAM project. He has worked tirelessly on the
installation (and ultimately the servicing and maintenance) of CATAM
room teletypes and associated equipment.
David's job has become increasingly complex and demanding, but he has
taken the changes and stresses completely in his stride. He has a very
likeable personality, and is always calm and positive, whatever the
problems. On behalf of his fellow technicians, and of the whole
Department, I wish him many more years of rewarding work with us.
                                  Alan Fraser, Maintenance Technician

eventsheet (25 January onwards)

Exhibitions

Fitzwilliam Museum

3 April-21 May
  Octagon
  Tue-Fri  14.00-17.00
  Sat 10.00-17.00 Sun 14.15-17.00
  Handmade readings: an eighteenth-century mother's nursery library
1 February -- 21 May
  Shiba Room
  Tue-Fri 14.00-17.00
  Sat 10.00-17.00 Sun 14.15-17.00
  Hokusai: One hundred poems and other prints
Until 18 March
  Adeane Gallery
  Tue-Sat 10.00-17.00
  Sun 14.15-17.00
  Recent Acquisitions
8 February -- 1 May
  Charrington Print Room
  Tue-Fri 14.00-17.00
  Sat 10.00-17.00 Sun 14.15-17.00
  For ever thine: The nineteenth-century Valentine
Until 9 April
  Graham Robertson Room
  Tue-Fri 14.00-17.00
  Sat 10.00-17.00 Sun 14.15-17.00
  Rubens and his influence
21 February -- 26 May
  Cripps Gallery
  Tue-Fri 10.00-12.00
  Beauty and the banknote: Images of women on paper money

Kettle's Yard Gallery

14 January -- 26 February 1995
  Zarina Bhimji: alluring yet disquieting photographic images and
  installations
5 March -- 16 April
  A Centenary Tribute to Jim Ede
12 February
  Sunday afternoon Talks
  16.00-16.45 Admission Free
20 March
  Study Day 10.00-17.00
  Further details and booking: contact Board of Continuing Education
  Tel: 01954 210636
House open: Tues-Sun 2.00-4.00
Gallery open: Tues-Sat 12.30-17.30
Sunday 14.00-17.30
For further information on concerts, classes and other activities please
tel: 01223 352124

The Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine The Clinical School, Addenbrooke's Hospital

Until March 1995
  Anatomy and Art
  Open to all members of the University
  Mon-Fri 09.00-17.00

Whipple Museum of the History of Science

Until end March 1995
  1900: The New Age
  Open: Mon-Fri 14.00-16.00
  Sat 10.00-16.00

Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

From February
  Special exhibition : Living Traditions: Continuity and Change, Past
  and Present
Until June
  Main Anthropology Gallery
  Display of Pachyu religious material from Nepal
Until June
  Main Anthropology Gallery
  Digging for Identity -- British Neolothic Axe Trade
Opening Times
Mon-Fri 14.00-16.00
Sat 10.00-12.30

Student Art

26 February -- 4 March
  Langham Glass Ltd, Quayside, Thompson's Lane, Cambridge
  Cambridge University Student Art Exhibition
  Third annual display of student work produced entirely by
  undergraduates who are not studying art as their degree subject
  Opening Times: Sun-Thur 9.30-5.30; Fri, Sat 9.30-8.00

Theatres

Arts Theatre

The Arts Theatre will be closed for renovations until Autumn 1995.
During this time arrangements have been made for booking theatre trips
to a variety of locations.  All are welcome.

Arts Cinema

Tickets for Arts Theatre, Arts Cinema, ADC and West Road Concert Hall
can be booked at Cambridge Arts Box Office on 01223 352001

ADC Theatre

31 Jan-3 Feb
  8.00pm
  Kittens Go Grr!!: Ted Smith Entertainment
4 February
  8.00pm
  How to Get into Oxford & Cambridge
1-4 February
  11.00pm
  The Love of Don Perlimplin: The Dryden Society
7-11 February
  8.00pm
  Measure for Measure: Upstage Productions
8-11 February
  11.00pm
  A Midsummer Night's Spleen: Medsoc Revue
14-18 February
  8.00pm
  The Importance of Being Earnest: Amateur Dramatic Club
15-18 February
  11.00pm
  The Trials of Oscar Wilde: Amateur Dramatic Club
21-25 February
  8.00pm
  Footlights Spring Revue-Whoops! Utopia: Cambridge Footlights
22-25 February
  11.00pm
  Latenight on Broadway: Baby Grand Productions
28 Feb-4 March
  8.00pm
  Candide: European Theatre Group
1-4 March
  11.00pm
  The All-Nude Cabaret: The Mitre Players
7-11 March
  8.00pm
  The Malcontent: Amateur Dramatic Club
8-11 March
  11.00pm
  E Motion, The Dance Group: Amateur Dramatic Club
14-25 March
  8.00pm (2.30pm Mat 25/3)
  A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Baby Grand Productions
31 Jan, 7 & 28 Feb, 7 Mar
  11.00pm
  Footlights Smoker: Footlights
Telephone 01223 352001 (Box Office) or 359547 (Theatre) for further details

Events

7 February
  CRIL Patent Clinic. Advice on intellectual property rights for
  researchers.  Contact Chris Smart on 312856 to arrange a time for a
  confidential discussion.  (No charge is made for this service.)
7 March
  CRIL Patent Clinic  (For details see 7 February)
Friends of Cambridge University Botanic Garden
14 February
  Orchid Conservation at Kew
  Talk by Dr Joyce Stewart, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Friends free,
  visitors 2 pounds. 8.00pm at the Gilmour Building
10 March
  Old Roses for Gardens of Today
  Hazel Le Rougetel, garden historian specialising in the history of
  roses and the design of rose gardens. A lecture with the Royal
  Horticultural Society, Lecture Theatre No 1, University Chemical
  Laboratory, Lensfield Road, Cambridge (free parking). 8.00pm Friends 3
  pounds, others 4 pounds. Free tickets for RHS members from the RHS in
  London.
For further details and to book, please contact: Judy Cheney, Administrator, Friends of Cambridge University Botanic
Garden, c/o Cory Lodge, Bateman Street, Cambridge CB2 1JF.
Tel: 01223 336271

Lectures

1 February
  Practicing Security in a Com Environment. Shabbir J Safdar, Goldman
  Sachs. Computer Laboratory Seminar Series, Babbage Lecture Theatre, New
  Museums Site 4.15pm
3 February
  Evolution of Development.  Lewis Wolpert (London University).  17.30
  Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.  Part of the Tenth Annual Darwin
  Lecture Series.
8 February
  Towards An Applied Mathematics of Computation. Jeremy Gunawardena,
  Hewlett Packard Laboratories.(for details see 1 Feb)
10 February
  Evolution of Modern Cities. Richard Rogers,  (London).  17.30 Lady
  Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.  Part of the Tenth Annual Darwin
  Lecture Series.
10 February
  On Greenland's Inland Ice: logistics and science in the Greenland Ice
  Sheet Project (GISP2). Jay Klinck and Bill Barber, SPRI.  Scott Polar
  Research Institute, Lensfield Road at 20.30.
13-15 February
  The Large, the Small and the Human Mind. Annual Tanner Lectures.
  Professor Sir Roger Penrose. Lady Mitchell Hall on 13 and 14 ,
  Robinson College Auditorium on 15th.
15 February
  On the Rigorous Construction of Computer Systems. Dr J W Sanders,
  Oxford University, PRG Computing Laboratory. (for details see 1 Feb)
17 February
  Evolution of Society. Tim Ingold (Manchester). 17.30 Lady Mitchell
  Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.  Part of the Tenth Annual Darwin Lecture Series.
17 February
  Girton College. Sir Leon Brittan, Vice-President of the European
  Commission, will deliver the Founders' Memorial Lecture entitled
  "Towards a Europe for the Individual"  at 5.15pm. in the Old Hall,
  Girton College. Members of the University will be welcome.
22 February
  The Development of Broadband Networking Services for the academic
  Community. Dr David Hartley, UKERNA. (for details see 1 Feb)
22 February
  The Arms Trade and Political Instability in South Asia. Mark Tulley
  OBE, Chief of Bureau, BBC Delhi 1972--94. The Seventh Roskill Memorial
  Lecture. The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College 5.00pm.
24 February
  Tradition, custom, and cash:Inuit economies in the Canadian High
  Arctic in the 1990s. Martin Whittles, SPRI. Scott Polar Research
  Institute, Lensfield Road at 20.30.
24 February
  Evolution of the Novel. Gillian Beer (Cambridge). 17.30 Lady Mitchell
  Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.  Part of the Tenth Annual Darwin Lecture Series.
1 March
  High Security Electronic Cash. Dr Birgit Pfitzmann, University of
  Hildesheim. Computer Laboratory Seminar Series. Hopkinson Lecture
  Theatre 4.15pm
3 March
  Evolution of Science. Freeman Dyson (Princeton).  17.30 Lady Mitchell
  Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.  Part of the Tenth Annual Darwin Lecture Series.
10 March
  Evolution of the Universe. Martin Rees (Cambridge). 17.30 Lady
  Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.  Part of the Tenth Annual Darwin
  Lecture Series.
11 March
  Antarctic tourism -- a report on SPRI research. Bernard Stonehouse,
  SPRI. Scott Polar Research Institute, Lensfield Road at 20.30.

Concerts

30 January
  Concert in aid of CamFed. Schubert: Fantasy in F minor op.103 for
  piano duo, Brahms: String Sextet in G major op.36. Programme also to
  include songs by Strauss and Mozart. Piano -- Joseph Long, Gavin
  Richards. Voice -- Elizabeth Wood. The Pelleas Ensemble. West Road
  Concert Hall 7.30pm. Tickets from Arts Cinema
11 February
  Cambridge University Musical Society. Webern: Passacaglia op.1, Berg:
  Violin concerto, Prokofiev: Symphony no.5. Violin -- Marcus
  Barcham-Stevens. Conductors -- William Lacey, Stuart Stratford. West
  Road Concert Hall 8.00pm. Tickets from Arts Cinema
12 February
  Altzheimer's Research Trust Benefit Concert. Vaughan Williams: A Sea
  Symphony. Stanford: Songs of the Sea. Parry: Blest Pair of Sirens.
  Harlow Chorus, Soprano -- Adele Paxton, Baritone -- Quentin Hayes. The
  Britten Sinfonia, Conductor -- Michael Kibblewhite. Cambridge Corn
  Exchange 7.30pm. Tickets from Cambridge Corn Exchange.
22 February
  Endellion String Quartet. Beethoven: Quartet in B flat major op.18
  no.6, Berg: Lyric Suite, Schumann: Quartet in a minor op.41 no.1.
  Pre-concert talk at 6.30pm given by Dr D Jarman entitled 'Alban Berg's
  Lyric Suite'. West Road Concert Hall 7.30pm. Tickets from Arts Cinema
25 February
  Cambridge University Chamber Orchestra. Mozart: Overture (Die
  Zauberflote), Stravinsky: Suite from Orpheus, Beethoven: Symphony no.3
  (Eroica). Conductor -- David Parry. West Road Concert Hall 8.00pm.
  Tickets from Arts Cinema
28 February, 2-4 March
  Cambridge University Opera Society. Purcell: Dido and Aeneas, Britten:
  The burning fiery furnace. Conductor -- Stuart Stratford. Director --
  Adrian Osmond. Round Church, Bridge Street 8.00pm. Tickets from Arts
  Cinema
4 March
  Cambridge University Musical Society Wind Orchestra. Guy Woolfenden:
  Illyrian dances, Simon Phillippo: Energico (first performance), Robin
  Holloway: Entrance, carousing, embarkation. Conductor -- Simon
  Phillippo. West Road Concert Hall 8.00pm. Tickets from Arts Cinema