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Cambridge and India Engagement

Cambridge’s engagement with India has evolved from scholars working on India to scholars working with, and increasingly, in India – on shared priorities, to mutual advantage. Joya Chatterji, Toby Wilkinson and Bhaskar Vira explain why this is, as Cambridge begins a month-long focus on some of its India-related research...

The Yusuf Hamied Laboratory for Chemical Synthesis & Catalysis

Over 90 guests attended the opening ceremony of the Yusuf Hamied Laboratory for Chemical Synthesis & Catalysis on 12 September. The new state-of-the-art research laboratory, which was made possible by the generous support of Dr Yusuf K Hamied, will enable Professor Matthew Gaunt and his research group to continue their...

Jan 20, 2014: Cambridge in Davos

A delegation of Cambridge academics, led by the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, is attending the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, this week. Professor Lord Martin Rees (Institute of Astronomy), Professor Julian Dowdeswell (Scott Polar Research Institute) and Professor Jon...

Call for Energy Champions

Energy@Cambridge Call for Energy Champions A number of Energy Champions will be selected to support different areas of the Energy@Cambridge strategic research initiative with the aim of building stronger research networks and engagement in the Energy@Cambridge initiative. Energy Champions, selected from early career...

University Teaching Awards Honour Excellence

Congratulations to this year’s recipients o f the Pilkington Prizes for teaching excellence, which included Energy@Cambridge members Dr Bart Hallmark, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology and Mary Ann Steane, Faculty of Architecture and History of Art. Thirteen inspirational academics have been honoured for...

Sir David Baulcombe elected President of the Biochemical Society

World-renowned plant scientist and geneticist Sir David Baulcombe, FRS, has been elected President of the Biochemical Society. Sir David, whose research has contributed to major advances in molecular biology and biotechnology, will become President of the Society, the largest discipline-based learned society in the...

Switch Off Week: 10–16 November

The University’s annual Switch Off Week, 10 - 16 November, will be all about working together to reduce the University’s energy use. World class research demands energy but we can all help keep the amount used to a minimum say the event's organisers. During the week staff are encouraged to join colleagues in switching off...

August 2014: Royal Society honours Cambridge scientists

The Royal Society has announced the recipients of its awards, medals and prizes for 2104. Three Cambridge scientists, two of whom are members of Energy@Cambridge , are among those honoured by the Royal Society this week (August 2014). Professor Jeremy Baumberg FRS, Department of Physics, received the Rumford Medal “ for...

CUEN Conference 2014 – Poster Session - Call for Abstracts – deadline 25 May 2014

This year the conference entitled: Gas – An (Un)Conventional Pathway Towards Our Energy Future? will focus on the challenges associated with natural gas technology and the role it will play as an energy source in the future. For the first time there will be a poster session aimed at early career researchers and sponsored...

Energy@Cambridge Co-ordinator appointed

We are delighted to announced that Dr Shafiq Ahmed has been appointed as Energy@Cambridge Initiative Research Co-ordinator and will take up his post on 1 July 2014. Shafiq has a PhD in Materials Science from Oxford and was previously Postgraduate Scholarships Manager for UUK and prior to that managed international...