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Applications for Exchange Awards are open as of 1 October 2025, and will close on Friday 12 December 2025The Winton Cambridge-Berkeley Exchange Programme is a partnership between the Winton Programme for the Physics of Sustainability, and the Kavli Energy NanoScience Institute (ENSI) at the University of California, Berkeley to support research wit…

Global aviation could be on a flight path to net zero if industry and governments reach just four goals by 2030, according to a new report from the University of Cambridge.An ambitious five-year plan created by the Aviation Impact Accelerator (AIA), a project led by the University of Cambridge and hosted by the University’s Whittle Laboratory and t…

Nyobolt, a University of Cambridge spin-out company, has demonstrated its ultra-fast charging batteries in an electric sportscar prototype, going from 10% to 80% charge in under five minutes, twice the speed of the fastest-charging vehicles currently on the road.In addition to ultra-fast charging times, the batteries developed by Nyobolt – which wa…

Cambridge spinout, Echion Technologies has raised £29 million in investment capital to help it increase the production of its fast-charging, long-life battery material based on niobium.Echion, a Cambridge University spinout headquartered just outside the city, has invented and patented a niobium-based anode material, XNO®, for use with re-chargeabl…

“It's been eye-opening to see the world from so many different angles. Cambridge creates a dynamic learning environment where everyone has something valuable to contribute,” says Mastercard Foundation Scholar Itumeleng Sebata.Itumeleng is one of six Scholars from Africa currently undertaking an engineering-related Master’s degree at Cambridge. Itum…

Professor Dame Clare Grey has been elected as an international member of the National Academy of Sciences.The NAS announced the election of 120 members and 24 international members this year in recognition of their distinguished and ongoing achievements in original research.The Grey group investigates materials with applications in supercapacitors,…

How do we change the world for the better? Now more than ever we need people with vision and, importantly, the necessary skills to tackle the complex challenges we face.The Gates Cambridge Scholarship brings together people from across the world and across disciplines with a focus on improving the lives of others. Every year around 75 new scholars …

A number of Cambridge engineers have secured funding for various research projects focused on decarbonisation and low carbon energy.Original Department of Engineering articleWe at the Energy Interdisciplinary Research Centre (IRC), with Higher Education Innovation Funding (HEIF), were pleased to support the latest round of Small Grants for impact a…

The Civil Engineering Division has been successful in its bid for a Centre for Doctoral Training in Future Infrastructure and Built Environment: Unlocking Net Zero (FIBE3 CDT) – building on the strength of its two CDT predecessors FIBE and FIBE2.The EPSRC-funded CDT will focus on meeting the user needs of the infrastructure and built environment se…

Cambridge engineers will join a new £6 million project exploring the extent to which the circular economy could meet the UK’s building needs – using zero new material extractions, with zero emissions and zero waste.BuildZero, led by the University of Sheffield, and funded by the EPSRC, will be carried out in partnership with the Universities of Cam…

Four innovative engineering academics who are global leaders in their fields have each been awarded a Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies. They will share a total of £10 million in funding over ten years to lead on developing emerging technologies with high potential to deliver economic and social benefits to the UK.This sch…

Once seen as a bedrock technology of the modern age, the detrimental relationship humanity has with plastics has become all too clear. Microplastics – and their smaller, more dangerous variant, nanoplastics – have been discovered in every ecosystem on earth, with potentially devastating consequences. Meanwhile, some researchers have suggested the a…

The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), the world’s largest aerospace professional society, has selected Professor Dame Ann P. Dowling as the 2024 Pendray Aerospace Literature Award winner, for her publications on combustion noise.This prestigious award is presented for an outstanding contribution or contributions to aeronaut…

The University of Cambridge is a partner in the new £11m Innovation and Knowledge Centre (IKC) REWIRE, set to deliver pioneering semiconductor technologies and new electronic devices.Semiconductors, also known as microchips, are a key component in nearly every electrical device from mobile phones and medical equipment to electric vehicles. They are…

The rise of Dawn: How the UK’s fastest AI supercomputer is supporting goals in clean energy, personalised medicine and climate.At the world’s first AI Safety Summit, hosted by the UK in November 2023, the government announced investment that would make British AI supercomputing 30 times more powerful, thanks to a pair of supercomputers named Dawn a…