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ERC Advanced Grants: €445 million from the EU to 190 senior research leaders

The European Research Council (ERC) has announced today the award of its prestigious Advanced Grants to 190 senior researchers. The funding, worth in total €445 million, will enable them and their teams to pursue ground-breaking ideas. These are the first ERC Advanced Grants awarded under the 'excellent science' pillar of...

Professor Ann Dowling President of the Royal Academy of Engineering

Royal Academy of Engineering celebrates its first female President

Call for Posters: Future Energy Challenge

Energy@Cambridge are delighted to announce a Future Energy Challenge Poster Showcase event to be held on 22 October 2014 in Cambridge. This will precede a guest lecture given by Andy Brown, Upstream International Director at Shell. This is an open call to take part in the poster session and highlight your research to a...

Future Cities Prize Fellowships - PhD student opportunities

The Cambridge Forum for Sustainability and the Environment is pleased to announce the first annual Research Student competition on the topic of Future Cities for University of Cambridge students. Eight PhD students will receive £2000 each to develop a short (at most 10,000 words) research paper and summarise the findings...

Queen's Birthday Honours 2015

Congratulations to Professor Harry Bhadeshia FRS FREng who is knighted for his work on metals and services to Science and Technology, Professor James Jackson FRS, who receives the CBE for services to Environmental Science and Prof Lisa Hall, who has been awarded the CBE for services to higher education and to sport.

Nature Energy – Launching January 2016

The provision of energy is a key issue at the heart of modern society: where do we get it from, how do we use it, and is there enough of it for what we want? Our growing thirst for energy must be matched by its supply, and that supply must be sustained. Tackling these challenges is an essential part of many fields of...

New glass manufacturing technique enables design of hybrid glasses to revolutionise gas storage

A new method of manufacturing glass could lead to the production of ‘designer glasses’ with applications in advanced photonics, whilst also facilitating industrial scale carbon capture and storage. An international team of researchers, writing today in the journal Nature Communications, report how they have managed to use...