Spotlight on Science: International Development & Eating for Fitness
15 Mar 2006Two lectures will be held tonight and tomorrow night (March 17 and 18) to discuss important issues in international development and diet and fitness.
Science fun to the classroom
08 Mar 2006As part of the annual Cambridge Science Festival, ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge academics will be visiting schools in three counties next week (Monday 13 March until Friday 17 March) to provide pupils with the opportunity to see the fun side of science. They will discuss intriguing topics such as nanotechnology, cloning and life beyond earth, and give students an opportunity to understand and explore these complex topics.
̽»¨Ö±²¥art of research
07 Mar 2006Churchill College, ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge is hosting ’‘On the Way to Things,’ an exhibition of drawings by academics, artists and scientists.
Picturing astronomers
01 Mar 2006̽»¨Ö±²¥ ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge Institute of Astronomy is holding an art competition for primary schools around the country to submit drawings by students of what they think astronomers do. ̽»¨Ö±²¥aim of the competition is to gain insight on how children today view astronomers, and to set up a role-model scheme for graduate students to visit primary schools and inspire students to study science.
CHaOS President receives volunteer award
14 Nov 2005Mudit Matanhelia, President of the student society CHaOS (Cambridge Hands-On Science) 2004-2005, has received a Home Office Year of the Volunteer medal for 2005.
Outstanding Contribution to Community
17 Oct 2005̽»¨Ö±²¥Cambridge Science Festival has been shortlisted for an award for 'Outstanding Contribution to the Local Community' by ̽»¨Ö±²¥Times Higher Education Supplement (THES).
Touring CHaOS
30 Mar 2005Cambridge Hands-on Science is going on a three-day tour to Southend-on-Sea.
Tonight: Future Histories of Science
23 Mar 2005We have seen some dramatic changes in science during the last 50 years or so that have changed our lives. From the Internet to mobile telephony to the discovery of DNA we have come to take for granted knowledge and technologies that our great-grandparents wouldn’t have imagined.
Tonight: Mental Time Travel and Embryonic Steps towards Stem Cell Medicine
22 Mar 2005‘Spotlight on Science’ continues with two talks tonight, both taking place at the Babbage Lecture Theatre.
Tonight- Iris Recognition: the window to the soul?
21 Mar 2005We have all seen it in futuristic films and wondered when Iris Recognition technologies will replace picture IDs across the board. What some of us may not know, however, is that the algorithms that form the basis of all iris recognition systems were developed by Dr John Daugman, Reader in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition at the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge.