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University of Cambridge

  • Wednesday, 9 July, 2025
    Cambridge university voters gear up to elect new chancellor in contested poll

    Several candidates raise concerns over ballot registration and campaign protocols

    John Browne, Gina Miller, Mohamed El-Erian
  • Tuesday, 1 July, 2025
    Disease control and prevention
    Landmark DNA study charts blood ageing caused by cancer drugs

    Research offers clues to choosing chemotherapy treatments with fewer long-term side effects

    A woman with cancer who is wearing a scarf to hide hair loss from chemotherapy treatment lies in a hospital bed while wearing headphones and using a smartphone
  • Wednesday, 16 April, 2025
    Space exploration
    Astronomers claim strongest evidence yet of extraterrestrial life

    Distant planet is covered with an ocean that may be teeming with microbial activity

    Artist’s impression of planet K2-18b covered with an ocean that may be teaming with microbial life. In the background is its red dwarf parent star
  • Sunday, 13 April, 2025
    UK universities
    Share of domestic postgraduate researchers hits record low in England

    Cuts to PhD funding have caused UK student intake to shrink, data shows

    a researcher at Edinburgh University
  • Friday, 4 April, 2025
    HTSI
    Why Chanel fell for the Boat Race

    It’s one of the world’s oldest and most brutal sporting rivalries. So why is a French couture house giving it the time of day?

  • Tuesday, 1 April, 2025
    Diarmuid O’Brien
    US competition can teach Cambridge a thing or two about growth

    Fine words about the Oxford-Cambridge Arc must be translated into action

    King’s College Chapel at Cambridge university
  • Tuesday, 18 March, 2025
    Science
    Europe courts US scientists fleeing Trump crackdown

    Cambridge university among institutions seeing chance to hire talent unsettled by US spending cuts

    Scientists protest in Washington square park in New York City, US on March 7 2025
  • Sunday, 23 February, 2025
    Venture capital investment
    VC backed by Cambridge university launches £100mn start-up fund

    Cambridge Innovation Capital’s fund counts Aviva Investors and an arm of British Business Bank as backers

    Cambridge university
  • Monday, 21 October, 2024
    Chanel SAS
    Chanel dips oar into sport with Oxford-Cambridge boat race tie-up

    Rowing contest to be renamed after fashion house’s designer watch in latest luxury move into sponsorship

    The Oxford and Cambridge university women’s rowing teams approach Hammersmith bridge during the 2024 boat race
  • Monday, 30 September, 2024
    Cambridge university seeks £15mn state boost for global science hub

    Money needed to kick-start project that will rival renowned schemes in Paris and Massachusetts

    People work at the ‘Station F’ start up campus in Paris
  • Wednesday, 24 July, 2024
    UK economy
    Revive Oxford-Cambridge high-tech growth plan, urge business and university leaders

    Letter to prime minister seeks boost for new science and tech ‘supercluster’ after plans stalled under previous government

    Aerial view of Brasenose College, University of Oxford
  • Monday, 3 June, 2024
    Deborah Prentice
    British universities are in a global competition — government must step up

    Cambridge shows us what research institutions need to translate scientific excellence into economic impact

    Modern office buildings and a tiered, concrete walkway
  • Monday, 18 March, 2024
    UK universities
    Cambridge university halts donations from fossil fuel groups

    Institution adopts moratorium on accepting Shell and BP funds amid scrutiny of companies’ influence on academia

    Protesters holding flares and a banner at Cambridge university’s engineering department in February 2023
  • Monday, 4 March, 2024
    Chess
    Chess: Oxford vs Cambridge almost level after 151 years

    Puzzle: just a single line of play 

    Multiple chess players playing one another over the board in a grand old hall
  • Friday, 15 December, 2023
    Barclays risks centuries-old ties with Cambridge over fossil fuel financing

    Students and staff are putting pressure on college bursars to find a greener bank

    Solar panels are installed on the roof of King’s College chapel in Cambridge
  • Wednesday, 11 October, 2023
    Cambridge
    Cambridge aims to double its number of ‘unicorns’ by 2035

    Universities, local government and industry to announce plan to boost innovation and expand multinationals in the city

    Cambridge Biomedical campus: Cambridge has 5,500 businesses that carry out research, development or innovation, generating more than £20bn in revenues a year
  • Wednesday, 20 September, 2023
    Mental health
    Suppressing negative thoughts good for mental health, researchers find

    Cambridge university study contradicts common belief in psychology that it is better to talk about distressing ideas and memories

    An elderly woman dozes in the garden
  • Monday, 17 July, 2023
    Cambridge university should halt funding from fossil fuel groups, report finds

    Independent study led by former UN climate champion comes amid growing scrutiny of patronage of higher education

    Cambridge university
  • Friday, 16 June, 2023
    Cambridge professor remains in post despite plagiarism

    History academic published an article containing large parts of essays copied from one of his students

    Cambridge university professor Dr William O’Reilly
  • Thursday, 13 April, 2023
    Jemima Kelly
    In defence of Oxbridge

    Do we really want to turn getting a good education into something that people should feel embarrassed about?

    Ben Hickey illustration of a mortarboard on a green background, with a ladder on its side.
  • Monday, 20 March, 2023
    Cambridge university’s economic impact worth £30bn a year, analysis shows

    Report highlights role higher education institutions play in accelerating innovation

    Students cycle past Cambridge university
  • Monday, 6 March, 2023
    Chess
    Chess: English amateur defeats Ukrainian champion in style

    Puzzle: can you win like P ConNers?

  • Monday, 27 February, 2023
    Chess
    Oxford v Cambridge reaches 150 years not out

    Puzzle: what did the Dutch master miss?

  • Wednesday, 25 January, 2023
    UK politics
    Oxford-Cambridge Arc revived via new British regional partnership

    Sunak offers renewed backing for plan to develop ‘UK Silicon Valley’ after it was shelved by Johnson government

    Oxford city skyline
  • Thursday, 15 December, 2022
    Health
    Potentially toxic air pollution hazard identified on London Underground

    Cambridge study finds high levels of iron particles small enough to pass into bloodstream

    Passengers wait to board a Victoria Line train at King’s Cross St Pancras station
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