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Science Festival 2015: Connectivity and Flow in Future Cities

Reported by Natalie Miazga , CSaP Policy Intern In a Science Festival event hosted by CSaP, the Cambridge Forum for Sustainability and the Environment , and the Energy@Cambridge Initiative , a panel of speakers brought together the challenges and opportunities presented by rapid growth and urbanisation of cities. This was...

Senior academic promotions announced 2015

The senior academic promotions take effect from 1 October 2015. 39 Professorships have been announced, together with 41 Readerships and 23 Senior Lectureships. These include Professorships for 11 Energy@Cambridge members, including the following: Dr James Haseloff in the Department of Plant Sciences; David Howarth in the...

CRASSH Graduate Research Group Sponsored by Energy@Cambridge

Energy@Cambridge is pleased to announce that during the next academic year it will sponsor the GreenBRIDGE Graduate / Faculty Research Group which is one of 14 groups supported by CRASSH. The Graduate/Faculty Research Groups programme supports groups of graduate students and faculty members working together with a common...

SET for Britain

Dr Lorna Ayton, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, won the SET for Britain Silver Award for a poster on Reducing the Sound Generated by Aeroengines.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...