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Professor Deborah Prentice

Nomination of candidate for Vice-Chancellor

September 26 2022

Professor Deborah Prentice, the Provost of Princeton University is the first American and third woman to be nominated as the next Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge.

Anna Lapwood

Cambridge organist's musical moment of sorrow goes viral

September 15 2022

Anna Lapwood never expected that playing the organ in the London Underground might interest anyone other than the odd passer-by or her Twitter followers until an unrehearsed duet with a security guard went viral on Sunday.

Sigourney Bell

The PhD student encouraging young Black aspiring scientists to claim their place

September 8 2022

When PhD student Sigourney Bell turned to Twitter to connect with other Black scientists, she could never have guessed that this would be the beginning of a journey that would see her co-founding an organisation that champions Black excellence in cancer research and medicine.

Mary Beard

A Conversation with Professor Dame Mary Beard on Feminism, Philanthropy, and the Future of Classics

September 7 2022

Read our Q&A with Professor Dame Mary Beard.

Queen Elizabeth II, 1926-2022

Queen Elizabeth II, 1926-2022

September 6 2022

The University of Cambridge community is deeply saddened by the news of the death of Her Majesty The Queen.

Woman works with robot

Robots can be used to assess children’s mental wellbeing, study suggests

September 1 2022

Robots can be better at detecting mental wellbeing issues in children than parent-reported or self-reported testing, a new study suggests.

Alumni Festival

2022 Cambridge Alumni Festival

August 26 2022

Registration is now open for the 2022 Cambridge Alumni Festival!
This year's program is a terrific mixture of in-person and online events.

Ukrainian Medical Students

Kharkiv medical students arrive for vital training

August 15 2022

Twenty Ukrainian medical students, whose training was thrown into turmoil by the Russian invasion, are next week beginning clinical placements at hospitals around Cambridge, to learn vital skills to help support their country's health service.

Prof Louis Gates Jr, Dr Ali Smith, Dr Judith Weir, Prof Sir John Walker, Prof Sir Roger Penrose, Lord Sainsbury of Turville,

Cambridge confers honorary degrees

June 22 2022
Bright sunshine beamed down on the distinguished ten guests who gathered to receive an honorary degree from the University of Cambridge on 22 June. The conferment of honorary degrees is one of the highest accolades the University can bestow upon people who have made outstanding achievements in their respective fields.
Professor Wole Soyinka, Professor Kwame Anthony Appiah and Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr

50 Years, and Counting: A Conversation with Professors Wole Soyinka, Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates Jr

June 18 2022

Professor Wole Soyinka, Professor Kwame Anthony Appiah and Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr are leading academic voices and hugely influential in their fields of expertise.

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