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Sir James Dyson opens invention powerhouse at the University of Cambridge

Sir James Dyson opened some of the world’s most advanced engineering facilities at the University of Cambridge on the 9 May 2016, giving the institution’s students and academics the space and means to prototype, invent and collaborate on cutting-edge research. The development has been funded by a £8m donation from the...

Professor Christopher Abell elected FRS

Chris Abell has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society. Chris is the Professor of Biological Chemistry at the University of Cambridge. A major focus of his highly interdisciplinary research has been to understand the mechanisms of key enzymes, and develop approaches to their inhibition. He was a pioneer in the...

Professor Sir David Mackay 1967–2016

Professor Sir David Mackay passed away on 14 April 2016. Professor Mackay joined the University of Cambridge as a Natural Sciences (Physics) undergraduate in 1985 and then went on to complete his PhD at the California Institute of Technology in Computational Mathematics. In 1992, he returned to Cambridge as the Royal...

Maxwell Centre - pioneering centre for physical sciences-industry collaborations opens

A centrepiece for industrial partnership with the physical sciences and engineering, and home to Energy@Cambridge officially opened on the 7 April 2016. The building was opened by David Harding, whose generous sponsorship of the Physics of Sustainability programme was central to the funding of the Maxwell Centre project by...

Solar cell material can recycle light to boost efficiency

Scientists have discovered that a highly promising group of materials known as hybrid lead halide perovskites can recycle light – a finding that they believe could lead to large gains in the efficiency of solar cells. Hybrid lead halide perovskites are a particular group of synthetic materials which have been the subject...

David Eyton BP Technology Outlook

On Tuesday 22 March David Eyton, Group Head of Technology at BP, gave a lecture to a group of PhD students and staff in the Maxwell Centre, West Cambridge. David Eyton gave an overview of the new BP Technology Outlook which shows how technology can play a major role in meeting energy challenges by widening energy resource...

The Alan Turing Institute – Energy Summit

On 21 March The Alan Turing Institute (ATI) Energy Summit took place in Murray Edwards College. The objective was to highlight the requirements, challenges, and opportunities of data science applications for the energy sector. The Energy Summit invited the users (or potential users) of the ATI from industry, government and...

Carlos Moedas, Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation at European Commission visit

On 3 March Carlos Moedas, Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation at European Commission gave a speech at the David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge on ‘Reinventing European research for the information age’. Carlos Moedas was joined by Jo Johnson MP, the UK Minister for Science and Universities...

Cambridge spin-out secures $3m to improve oil recovery efficiency

Silicon MicroGravity (SMG), a newly-formed University of Cambridge spin-out that has developed a novel sensor technology used by oil companies to enhance oil recovery, has received initial funding of $3 million from Imperial Innovations Group plc (AIM: IVO, 'Innovations') and Cambridge Enterprise, the commercialisation arm...

Winners of £40,000 low-carbon Shell Springboard award announced in Cambridge

Finian Parrick from Zero Carbon Future, Michael Murray of NVP Energy and Tony Dye of Epicam were each named regional winners at the Shell Springboard event in Cambridge on Tuesday 16 February, seeing off competition from 140 other businesses across the UK. They each scoop £40,000 funding and proceed to the Shell...