More than 50 students from backgrounds of educational disadvantage have been offered a place on the University of Cambridge’s first-ever pre-degree foundation year.
In April 2020, the World Food Programme issued a stark warning: the world was sleepwalking towards a biblical famine. The COVID-19 pandemic has put an additional 120 million people at risk of starvation. Arguably more shocking, however, is that 135 million people were already suffering from acute food shortages and hunger.
“Climate change is perhaps the most urgent issue of our generation and time may well be running out for us to halt the rise in global temperatures,” says Jamie Arnell (Downing 1988) who is supporting the Centre for Climate Repair at Cambridge (CCRC) to find innovative solutions to help repair our climate.
A gift from Emeritus Fellow, Dr Steve Hoath has enabled the Hub to devote more time and resources to explore and spotlight the issues of sustainability and conservation.
The Isaac Newton Trust, the School of the Arts and Humanities, Magdalene and Newnham Colleges and donors including Ross and Jane Reason have collaborated to establish the first Isaac Newton Trust Academic Career Development Fellowship in Philosophy.
The research at the El-Erian Institute will invite specialists in behavioural economics, neuroscience, psychology and behavioural science from Cambridge to provide insight into how decision making interacts with human behaviour.
The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated that now, more than ever, the world needs to harness deep expertise and collaborative thinking to tackle a global challenge. And at Cambridge, the power of philanthropy is enabling researchers and scientists to do just that.
The Department of Social Anthropology is delighted to welcome Dr Natalia Buitron who has been appointed to the new Lectureship in the Anthropology of Amazonia.
The University of Cambridge announces the launch of the Kavli Centre for Ethics, Science, and the Public, to engage publics and scientists with the ethical implications of scientific discovery and its impact on society.
Following an international search, Professor Neil Lawrence has been appointed as the inaugural DeepMind Professor of Machine Learning at Cambridge, supported by a benefaction from the world-leading British AI company.
The projects are intended to advance our knowledge of the archaeology of South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa and help archaeologists and heritage managers in these regions develop more sustainable approaches to protecting and monitoring endangered heritage
Dr Holly Krieger is making waves in the field of mathematics. Not only is she making great strides with her teaching and research, but Holly takes an active role in encouraging more women to explore mathematics.
The Cambridge Centre for Carbon Credits (4C) will use a combination of AI and satellite sensing to build a decentralised marketplace of verifiable carbon credits
In April 2020, the World Food Programme issued a stark warning: the world was sleepwalking towards a biblical famine. The COVID-19 pandemic has put an additional 120 million people at risk of starvation. Arguably more shocking, however, is that 135 million people were already suffering from acute food shortages and hunger.
The Endangered Landscapes Programme (ELP) is thrilled to announce a second phase of funding from Arcadia, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin.
Emily Parsons was just twenty-two when she was diagnosed with a rare and currently incurable spinal cord tumour—diffuse midline glioma with the H3 K27M mutation. Emily was given only months to live but spent that time fundraising for a Cambridge research group working to find new treatment options.
Just after 11pm on Saturday 13th November, COP26 president Alok Sharma declared the conference closed. The resulting Glasgow Climate Pact has garnered complex and nuanced responses from across global society, and within the community of academics, students and staff at the University of Cambridge.
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