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The 2010 Tanner Lectures
Professor Smith’s research spans two decades and three continents, mainly concentrating on housing issues such as residential segregation, victimization and fear of crime, and housing for...
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“Re-examining the Sunshine Policy”
The inaugural lecture will be given by Professor Moon Chung-in of the Department of Political Science at Yonsei University. Professor Moon Chung-in is a leading scholar in arms control and Korean...
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Bank renews scholarship agreement
The agreement, which runs for a further three years from 2011, will include co-funding, with the Cambridge Overseas Trust, of scholarships for Masters degrees at the University.Students from any non-EU...
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Oxford Vice-Chancellor to share ‘lessons from America’
Professor Hamilton, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford, will examine the influence of universities on wider society, locally, nationally and internationally. Drawing on his 30 years’...
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Clare Hall announces President-elect
Professor David Ibbetson FBA has been elected the eighth President of Clare Hall. He will succeed Sir Martin Harris who will be retiring in the summer of 2013.Professor Ibbetson has been Regius...
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Polio provocation – the health debate that refused to go away
In 1980, public health researchers working in West Africa detected a startling trend among children diagnosed with paralytic polio. Some of the children had become paralyzed in a limb that had recently...
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Cambridge academics honoured in South Wales ceremony
Vice-Chancellor Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, has received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of South Wales.The University of South Wales' Chancellor, Dr Rowan Williams, who is also Master...
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Alan Turing Institute up and running
The Alan Turing Institute has marked its first few days of operations with the announcement of its new director, the confirmation of £10 million of research funding from Lloyd’s Register Foundation, a...
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Too big to cry: when war ended, the damage began
When we think of the First World War, we remember the many millions of men who died. But, as dangerous it was to be a soldier in the horror of the trenches, it was more dangerous to be a baby back at...
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Opinion: Confronting the Taliban – an educational encounter
In a country that has five million children out of school (three million of them girls) it may seem incongruous to prioritise higher education. But prestigious higher education institutions, such as...
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Call to arms: how lessons from history could reduce the ‘immunisation gap’
An outbreak of measles in Disneyland sounds like a fairytale gone bad. Yet, in January 2015, states across the USA began reporting measles among individuals who had visited the Disneyland Resort in...
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Carrots and sticks fail to change behaviour in cocaine addiction
“Addiction does not happen overnight but develops from behaviour that has been repeated over and over again until individuals lose control,” said Dr Karen Ersche from the Department of Psychiatry, who...
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Cambridge alumni win 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics
David Thouless (Trinity Hall, 1952), Duncan Haldane (Christ’s, 1970) and Michael Kosterlitz (Gonville and Caius, 1962) discovered unexpected behaviours of solid materials - and devised a mathematical...
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Meadow of dancing brittle stars shows evolution at work
Researchers have described a new species of brittle star, which are closely related to starfish, and showed how these sea creatures evolved in response to the rise of shell-crushing predators during...
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Cambridge in the 2018 New Year Honours List
Professor Sir Keith Peters, who was first honoured as a Knight Bachelor in the 1993 New Year’s Honours list, was awarded a GBE (Knight Grand Cross of the British Empire) for Services to the Advancement...
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Cambridge academics honoured in South Wales ceremony
Vice-Chancellor Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, has received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of South Wales.The University of South Wales' Chancellor, Dr Rowan Williams, who is also Master...
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Alan Turing Institute up and running
The Alan Turing Institute has marked its first few days of operations with the announcement of its new director, the confirmation of £10 million of research funding from Lloyd’s Register Foundation, a...
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Too big to cry: when war ended, the damage began
When we think of the First World War, we remember the many millions of men who died. But, as dangerous it was to be a soldier in the horror of the trenches, it was more dangerous to be a baby back at...
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Opinion: Confronting the Taliban – an educational encounter
In a country that has five million children out of school (three million of them girls) it may seem incongruous to prioritise higher education. But prestigious higher education institutions, such as...
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Call to arms: how lessons from history could reduce the ‘immunisation gap’
An outbreak of measles in Disneyland sounds like a fairytale gone bad. Yet, in January 2015, states across the USA began reporting measles among individuals who had visited the Disneyland Resort in...
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