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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...

CSaP Policy Placement Opportunities in the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS)

There are a range of opportunities for PhD students and post docs at Cambridge to take up part-time and full-time secondments in BIS. Interested candidates should first seek permission from their supervisor or line manager before applying for a secondment. Secondees are not paid but travel expenses will be covered. Details...

Climate Change Tweetathon

Relevant authorities will come together from food, water, health, business, biodiversity, the natural environment, government, cities, homes and sport to talk about the impacts of climate change and the action that can be taken to tackle it – both in the UK and globally From 0900 until 1900 (GMT) on 25 November you can...

Cambridge Engineers Break Superconductor World Record

A world record that has stood for more than a decade has been broken by a team of engineers led by Professor David Cardwell, harnessing the equivalent of three tonnes of force inside a golf ball-sized sample of material that is normally as brittle as fine china. Professor Cardwell’s team managed to ‘trap’ a magnetic field...

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...

Senior academic promotions announced June 2014

As you may have seen in The Reporter , a number of senior academic promotions were approved with effect from 1 October 2014: Our congratulations to the following 15 members of Energy@Cambridge who have been appointed to Professorships, Readerships and Senior Lectureships. NB. Academic titles on the Energy@Cambridge website...

Energy@Cambridge at the CUEN Conference June 2014

Pictures and presentations from the CUEN (Cambridge University Energy Network) Annual Conference 2014 on Natural Gas are now available to download here . The CUEN conference also hosted its inaugural poster session, which was sponsored by Energy@Cambridge . Ten excellent proposals were selected and included applicants from...

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...

Shell Future Energy Challenge Poster Winner Announced

Energy@cambridge is pleased to announce the winner of its Shell sponsored Future Energy Challenge Poster Competition held on the 22 nd October 2014. The first prize of £250 was won by Michael Price, a graduate student and Winton Scholar in the Department of Physics, who presented on the power efficiency gain of Perovskite...

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...