Latest News

With a host of Cambridge alumni and academics on this year's Hay Festival programme, including speakers for the Hay 'Cambridge Series' and this autumn's Alumni Festival, there has never been a better time to learn new things, make new friends and reacquaint yourself with the intellectual life of the University. Read more...

Leading neuroscientist Professor Barry Everitt has been appointed the next Provost (CEO) of Gates Cambridge – one of the world’s most prestigious scholarship programmes. Read more...

Ahead of his talk at the Hay Festival, Jonathan Haslam discusses his forthcoming history of Soviet intelligence organisations, revealing, among other things, just how unprepared for Operation Barbarossa Stalin was in 1941. Read more...

The University's International Summer Schools programme has been welcoming participants from all over the world since 1923. In its 90th anniversary year, there's a tremendous line-up of academics to deliver 165 courses, 145 plenary lectures and, of course, anniversary events. Read more...

Cambridge’s Computer Lab marks its 75th anniversary this month, celebrating a spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship that has taken it from the age of vast mainframes to its modern day place at the heart of silicon fen. Cambridge Computing: The first 75 years, published to coincide with the anniversary, tells the story of this remarkable institution. Read more...

The 40-year friendship of Charles Darwin and Joseph Hooker, the most significant and scientifically important of Darwin’s life, can now be explored by anyone in the world with access to the Internet. Read more...

One of India’s most eminent scientists visited Cambridge last month marking important research links between the University and Bangalore. Read more...

The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, yesterday spoke powerfully about universities' role in overseas development. Read more...

The University Museum of Zoology contains far more than a record of the past. Ambitious redevelopment plans will enable enhanced use of its unique collections for research into global issues from climate change to conservation. Read more...

The weekend of 12-14 April 2013 sees a sparkling line-up at Cambridge Wordfest including several Cambridge alumni. Read more...

The first issue of the Department of History of Art's newsletter - Five Scroope Terrace - is available to read online now.

A host of Cambridge academics and alumni will speak about subjects ranging from obesity and smart drugs to US politics and domestic service at this year's Hay Festival. Read more...

An insightful lecture by Sir David Attenborough in the University of Cambridge Senate House has marked the launch of the Cambridge Conservation Campus. The campus will become the hub for the world’s largest conservation cluster, the Cambridge Conservation Initiative (CCI). Read more...

Acclaimed author of Sustainable Energy Without The Hot Air will be first holder of Royally-appointed engineering post at Cambridge. Read more...

In March 2013, Cambridge ecologist Henry Disney ScD was made an Honorary Member of the Freshwater Biological Association - 'for having made a significant specific contribution and, in addition, achieving  50 years continuous membership of the FBA.' Read more...

Sunday 31 March 2013, at 4.30pm, the 159th Boat Race between crews from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge will take place. First raced in 1829 The Boat Race is one of the oldest sporting events in the world. Read more...

The Falklands War – the conflict that defined much of Margaret Thatcher’s political career and legacy – dominates the release of her personal papers for 1982 at the Churchill Archives Centre from Monday (25 March 2013). Read more...

The Governing Body has elected Mrs Nicola Padfield MA Dip Crim DES as the next Master, to take office on 1 October 2013, upon the retirement of Professor Robert Lethbridge after eight years in office. Read more...

A commemorative plaque has been affixed to a roof girder 17 metres above the floor of Cambridge Sports Centre at the University West Cambridge site to mark the topping out of the building. Read more...

The fourth issue of the Department of Pathology's newsletter for alumni and friends, Pathology News, is now available to read online.

Read Pathology News online

The Spring 2013 edition of the Department of Engineering Newsletter is out now.

Read it online

Murray Edwards College, founded as New Hall, in the University of Cambridge has today announced the election of Dame Barbara Stocking DBE as its fifth President. Read more...

Professor Richard Penty MA PhD FREng has been named as the 27th Master of Sidney Sussex College to succeed Professor Andrew Wallace-Hadrill in July 2013. Read more...