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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 lights, and office and lab…

Energy@cambridge is pleased to announce the winner of its Shell sponsored Future Energy Challenge Poster Competition held on the 22nd 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 solar cells and lasers whic…

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

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 Department of Land Economy;…

Reported by Natalie Miazga, CSaP Policy InternIn 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 followed by a second panel of …

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.

Royal Academy of Engineering celebrates its first female President Professor Dame Ann Dowling DBE FREng FRS today succeeds Sir John Parker GBE FREng as President of the Royal Academy of Engineering.Fellows of the Academy elected Dame Ann as their first female president at the 2014 AGM last night. Dame Ann succeeds Sir John Parker GBE FREng, who ser…

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 a relatively new family of…

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 research – both in the natural …

The multi-million pound 5 year project sponsored by Lloyd’s Register Foundation follows the publication of the LRF’s Foresight review in nanotechnology: the next industrial revolution. The project is entitled Nanotechnology in subsea power infrastructure. Along with its collaborators; National University of Singapore, Texas A&M University, The Inst…

The 2014 Nobel Prize for physics has been awarded to a trio of scientists in Japan and the US for the invention of blue light emitting diodes (LEDs).The 2014 Nobel Prize for physics has been awarded to a trio of scientists in Japan and the US for the invention of blue light emitting diodes (LEDs).Professors Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Na…

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 in a poster to present to a…

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 Horizon 2020, the EU's res…

On 6 May 2015 Energy@Cambridge hosted a visit from the EPSRC Energy team at the Hauser Forum. The morning session focussed on EPSRC strategy and the spending review. EPSRC led break-out groups on future funding scenarios with academics and EPSRC funded Fellows.In the afternoon EPSRC ran sessions on Impact and Developing Leaders. The Impact session …

Professor Abir Al-Tabbaa and Dr Janet Lees from the Department of Engineering and Dr Yun Bai from Civil Engineering University College London (UCL) have been successful in the first ever EPSRC/NSFC call for collaborative UK/China research projects on Sustainable Materials for Infrastructure. Together with their collaborators, Professor Jueshi Qian …