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Fresh from making front page news over the weekend, the Director of Liberty, Shami Chakrabarti is to deliver the Newnham Henry Sidgwick Endowed Lecture this Friday 24th April at 5.30pm in the Cambridge Law Faculty.Ìý

There’s a hum of concentrated chatter and a clutter of cardboard, glue guns, string and staplers in a ground floor teaching room at the Department of Engineering as teams of teenagers get down to the afternoon’s challenge – building bridges.

White Tigers or White Elephants?

Take two Booker judges, a gaggle of eminent writers, add the Question ‘Do Literary Prizes Matter’ and watch the sparks fly at Newnham College, Cambridge on November 14th.

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̽»¨Ö±²¥award-winning author and Cambridge alumna Dr Claire Tomalin will be giving the 2008 Leslie Stephen Lecture in Cambridge next Wednesday (October 22).

More than 1,100 alumni and guests came back toÌýCambridge last weekend for the ̽»¨Ö±²¥â€™s 18th annual Alumni Weekend.

Dormouse holders, monkey skeletons, and kosher fish sauce are just some of the more unexpected aspects of life in ancient Pompeii, discussed in a new book from one of the world’s foremost classicists.

Rebecca Bradshaw, 16, is a student at Blessed Trinity RC College, Burnley. This is her take on the week she spent at the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge on the Business Challenge Summer School. ̽»¨Ö±²¥project is a new initiative funded by the Sutton Trust. Its aim is to give teenagers from less affluent areas a taste of all aspects of Uni life and get them thinking about the long-term benefits that a university education can bring.

Marcus Hunter took his GCSEs at Four Dwellings High School in Birmingham and was encouraged to apply for the GEEMA summer school by his head of year. GEEMA is the Group for Encouraging Ethnic Minority Applications to Cambridge. He is now an A Level student at Lordswood Girls High School (Mixed) Specialist Sixth Form. Marcus was one of 40 students from around the country to take part in last week’s summer school, which was based at Newnham College and the Faculty of Law. He is interested in studying law. Here is his diary.

Forty teenagers cluster round a huge oil painting in the Italian Room at the Fitzwilliam Museum. It is Salvator Rosa’s forbidding L'Umana Fragilita (Human Frailty), painted circa 1656, soon after a devastating plague had swept through Naples.