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Photographs of Dr Sunny Vagnozzi and Prof. Anne-Christine Davis.

Dr. Sunny Vagnozzi and Prof. Anne-Christine Davis awarded the 2021 Buchalter Cosmology Prize

This prestigious annual prize recognises boundary-pushing, ground-breaking work in cosmology with the potential to produce a breakthrough advance in our understanding of how the Universe works.
Professor Sharon Peacock

Professor Sharon Peacock awarded the MRC Millennium Medal 2021

Sharon Peacock, Professor of Public Health and Microbiology in the Department of Medicine, and Executive Director of the COVID-19 Genomics UK (COG-UK) Consortium, has been awarded the MRC Millennium Medal 2021.

Bene Merito medal of honour

Professor John Rink has received the Bene Merito, an honorary decoration of the Republic of Poland for contributions to activities strengthening Poland’s position in the international arena.
Sam Stranks

Dr Sam Stranks awarded Philip Leverhulme Prize in Physics

Dr Sam Stranks, from the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, has been awarded the 2021 Philip Leverhulme Prize in Physics in recognition of his work’s “international impact” and “exceptionally promising” future career.

2021 AAAS Science & Human Rights Coalition: 2021 Student Essay Competition

Marco Travaglio, a PhD student in the School of Biological Sciences, has been selected as the graduate winner of this year's AAAS Science & Human Rights Coalition: 2021 Student Essay Competition
Department of Earth Sciences

Two Cambridge researchers awarded UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships

Two Cambridge Earth Scientists have been awarded UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships to help them develop innovative research projects.

Croonian Medal of The Royal Society 2022

Professor Sir Stephen O’Rahilly FRS FMedSci and Professor Sadaf Farooqi FRS FMedSci from The Wellcome-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science at the University of Cambridge have been jointly awarded the 2022 Croonian Medal of the Royal Society “for their seminal discoveries regarding the control of...

Runner-up, George R. Terry Award, Academy of Management

"The Power of Being Divisive: Understanding Negative Social Evaluations" (Stanford University Press, 2020) named runner up for the George R. Terry Book Award
Professor Shahzad Ansari

EGOS Best Student paper Award 2020

The award was won for a joint paper "From shelter to emancipation: how disabled workers found their own voice through identity work" by Prof. Shaz Ansari (pictured) and Patricia Hein.

The Diana Award 2021

The Diana Award, established in memory of The Princess of Wales, is the highest accolade a young person can achieve for social action or humanitarian efforts.

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