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National Learning Disabilities & Autism Awards: Outstanding Contribution to Innovation Award

Rashmi Becker, PHD Researcher in the Department of Psychiatry is recognised for her 'Outstanding Contribution to Innovation' at the National Learning Disabilities and Autism Awards.

Dr Tanya Hutter awarded Fellowship at 2016 L’Oréal UNESCO ceremony

Dr Tanya Hutter from the Department of Chemistry has been named as one of five Fellows of the L’Oréal-UNESCO UK and Ireland For Women in Science programme.

Andy Martin awarded Norman Mailer Fellowship

Andy Martin, Lecturer in the Department of French and author of 'Reacher Said Nothing: Lee Child and the Making of "Make Me"', has been awarded a Norman Mailer Nonfiction Fellowship.

New project on multilingual education seeks to raise learning outcomes in Indian primary schools

Scientists at the University of Cambridge are to explore how India can provide a high-quality multilingual education system to primary school pupils. A research project led by Professor Ianthi Tsimpli will measure 1,600 children's language, literacy and numeracy skills over a two year period...

National Learning Disabilities and Autism Awards 2016

Rashmi Becker, PhD researcher at the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge has been shortlisted as a finalist for the National Learning Disabilities and Autism Awards in the Making a Difference Category.

Researchers from the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology receive Europe’s highest honour in the heritage field

Dr Frederick Baker and Dr Christopher Chippindale are among the winners of this year's European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Awards.

The 2016 Heineken Prize for Medicine

Prof. Steve Jackson of the Wellcome Trust/ Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge, has won the 2016 Dr A. H. Heineken Prize for Medicine, for "his fundamental research into DNA repair in human cells and for the successful application of knowledge of that process in the...

Nikku Madhusudhan awarded the Bappu Gold Medal of the Astronomical Society of India

Nikku Madhusudhan (Institute of Astronomy) has been given the Bappu Gold Medal for contributions to astronomy and astrophysics by a young scientist.

Professor Ron Martin awarded the Royal Geographical Society's Victoria Medal

The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) has honoured Professor Ron Martin (Department of Geography) with their Victoria Medal, one of their most prestigious awards.

Two Cambridge Chemists win prestigious Royal Society of Chemistry Awards

Professor Rod Jones and Dr Gonçalo Bernardes from the Department of Chemistry have been honoured in the Royal Society of Chemistry's 2016 awards.

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