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̽»¨Ö±²¥Times newspaper has named 13 Cambridge academics in their inaugural list of the 100 most important contemporary figures in British science. ̽»¨Ö±²¥first ranking of contemporary figures in British science was released today in Eureka, ̽»¨Ö±²¥Times’ monthly science magazine.

̽»¨Ö±²¥British Academy has today announced the scholars elected for this year’s Fellowships in recognition of their contribution to the humanities and social sciences.

Mr H.E Mohammed J. Al-Sager, chair of the Council for Arab and International Relations, will be giving a public lecture in Cambridge this eveningÌý(Thursday May 6).

Cambridge Admissions Office is inviting current undergraduate students to send in photos they’ve taken of Cambridge that give a candid student’s eye view of the university.

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Professor Stephen Hawking, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge ̽»¨Ö±²¥, has been awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He will collect his award from the US president Barack Obama at a ceremony held in the White House today, Wednesday 12 August.

Relations between Europe and China will come under the spotlight tonight at the second meeting of the student-organised Cambridge – China forum.

̽»¨Ö±²¥Britten Sinfonia premiered a new composition from Ryan Wigglesworth in Krakow, Poland this weekend, made possible by a grant from the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge’s 800th Anniversary Fund.

Sav Perumal, 17, a student at St Olave’s Grammar School in Orpington, Kent, was one of 100 sixth-formers who spent last week on the Gonville and Caius summer school.