Black Cantabs: History Makers is a groundbreaking exhibition telling the forgotten stories of black students in Cambridge, which takes place from Monday 1 October to Saturday 22 December 2018 at the University Library
Throughout September the University prepares to welcome back its undergraduates after the summer break. For Cambridge’s primary school children, however, the new term is already well underway. Find out about the University of Cambridge Primary School based in Eddington - the first primary University Training School in the UK.
Ekbal Hussain (Pembroke 2008) describes how his passion for geosciences led to him working for the British Geological Survey. Today he studies earthquake movements to help understand the risks from future shocks to low-income countries.
Computer Science graduates Simon Chan (Fitzwilliam 2002) and Danielle Ainsworth-Patrick (Fitzwilliam 2007) have been teaching Collegiate Shag (a 1930s dance from the USA) with Cambridge Swing Dance since 2016. We met up with them to find out about life after graduation and how they discovered their love and talent for dancing.
As he comes to the end of his first academic year in post, the University’s 346th Vice-Chancellor talks about some of the challenges and successes of an extraordinary year in this video.
Cambridge is the top UK university and fourth in the world in the 2019 league tables calculated by the Guardian and the Center for World University Rankings.
As retirement gifts go, the Department of Archaeology has created something out of the ordinary to mark the moment Professor Martin Jones hangs up his trowel.