Alan Turing Institute up and running
05 Aug 2015National institute for the development and use of advanced mathematics, computer science, algorithms and ‘Big Data’ has announced its first director, and will start research activities in the autumn.
A Book of Strange and Wonderful Tales and its Eminent Translator
20 Dec 2014Crocodiles have pearls in their ears; statues move and speak. The first English translation of a collection of Arab fantasy stories opens a window on to the imaginings of the medieval mind. Professor Malcolm Lyons has brought alive for the modern reader the gripping yarns in Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange.
Pembroke College elects new Master
04 Dec 2014Pembroke College is delighted to announce the election of Lord Smith of Finsbury as its next Master.
Fundraiser honoured for University and college work
09 Jul 2014Edward Button awarded 2014 CASE Europe Iain More Award.
You are the Admissions Tutor
08 Jul 2014Teachers and HE advisers from across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough stepped into the role of Admissions Tutor last week, reviewing real, anonymised, Cambridge application forms. Faced with three high-achieving students, they were asked: what would you decide?
Buddha and the book
28 May 2014Some of the world’s oldest Sanskrit and Buddhist manuscripts – and a gift from the 13th Dalai Lama – go on display from today at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (MAA).
East Midlands teenagers win Pembroke and St. Catharine’s Colleges diary-writing competition
25 Apr 2014What’s it like to be a student at Cambridge? Every year Pembroke and St Catharine’s Colleges organise a three-day Easter Residential Science Masterclass for students from schools across East Anglia, the East Midlands and London. This year, for the first time, participants were invited to share their experiences in a diary-writing competition.
Pembroke and St Catharine's welcome university explorers
24 Feb 2014Pembroke and St Catharine’s Colleges welcomed almost 50 GCSE students from schools in Southwark, Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire on a day designed to help them start thinking about university choices.
Pembroke and St. Catharine’s Colleges Year 12 Summer Residentials offer a Cambridge experience
25 Jul 2013Pembroke and St. Catharine’s Colleges have this year hosted two Summer Residentials, attended by 44 sixth form students from state schools and colleges across the country.
Planes, trains and automobiles....
14 May 2013Two Colleges of the University of Cambridge spent a week on the road to show Scottish students and teachers what the university had to offer them.
