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Cambridge is shaping AI for everyone

07 April 2025

Explore how Cambridge is using AI for better healthcare, smarter public services and new ways of tackling climate change. Meet our community and discover how ai@cam is supporting the development of AI that works for science, citizens and society. 聽

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探花直播scientist reducing the rise of superbugs by talking to farmers

06 Nov 2020

Chioma Achi is worried about the global misuse of antibiotics in agricultural practices. Her work helping farmers in Nigeria to reduce infection in...

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探花直播lawyer working towards equality and dignity for all

27 Oct 2020

Gates Cambridge Scholar Rumbidzai Dube has long held a passion for international relations and humanitarian issues. After working for ten years as a...

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探花直播scientist who launched a comic and flew the flag for Black History Month

23 Oct 2020

Self-confessed comic addict Osarenkhoe Ogbeide sees beyond the superhero to the scientist. When he鈥檚 not developing printable gas sensors, he鈥檚...

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Unexpected experiences: Stephen J Toope concludes the series with a sense of optimism for the future

22 Oct 2020

"It fills me with enormous gratitude that 鈥 at the moment of greatest challenge 鈥 our collegiate community rallied and rose to the occasion."

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鈥淲e鈥檙e in it for the long haul鈥

21 Oct 2020

In late 2019, a new institute opened on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus. Its timing could not have been better - as the COVID-19 pandemic sent...

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探花直播student entrepreneur who interviewed Stormzy about race and privilege

20 Oct 2020

Recent graduate and former president of the African and Caribbean Society, Toni Fola-Alade, talks about advocacy, start-ups and fundraising for...

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Unexpected experiences: Catherine Arnold reflects on a curious first year as Master of St Edmund's College

09 Oct 2020

What links two large furry Loch Ness Monsters, key-cards, and donning a gown to eat pot noodles? 探花直播answer is the unexpected creativity that...

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探花直播colleagues who鈥檝e scored almost a century in continuous service to the 探花直播

06 Oct 2020

As they (literally) hand over the keys to their much-loved Vet School, Betty and Paul tell us about the poorly elephant who brought two friends and...

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Unexpected experiences: Meet the volunteers behind the masks at the Cambridge Testing Centre

05 Oct 2020

They juggled their jobs and sacrificed sleep to volunteer at the Cambridge Testing Centre, a collaboration between the 探花直播, AstraZeneca and...

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On being black at Cambridge

02 Oct 2020

Sharon Mehari, president of the African Caribbean Society, talks about inspiring vloggers, COVID-19 and the importance of having actionable...

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Planting ideas: Botanic Garden opens access with living collections portal

02 Oct 2020

A new web portal to Cambridge 探花直播 Botanic Garden's entire living collection, 14,000 plants, aims to open access and fast-track urgent global...

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Unexpected experiences: Sam Lucy takes us behind the scenes of the recent admissions process

25 Sep 2020

Assessing undergraduate admissions was likely to be a very different process in a pandemic, let alone with a changing landscape of cancelled exams...

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