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Royal Astronomical Society awards Gold Medal in astronomy to Professor John Barrow

Professor John Barrow (Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics) has been awarded the Gold Medal in astronomy in the Royal Astronomical Society's 2016 awards, medals and prizes.

Goldstein wins Batchelor Prize 2016

The G K Batchelor Prize for 2016 is awarded to Professor Raymond E. Goldstein FRS, Schlumberger Professor of Complex Physical Systems in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics and Fellow of Churchill College.

Shanghai Archaeology Forum awards

Cambridge's world-class research in archaeology was recognised twice at this year's Shanghai Archaeology Forum.

Cambridge animal research film wins 2015 Openness Award

A film about animal research at the University of Cambridge, showing how scientists use mice to study cancer, has received the 2015 Openness Award in the category of Website or Use of New Media at an awards ceremony last night in London.

Gagna A. & Ch. Van Heck Prize awarded to Professor Steve Jackson

Professor Steve Jackson, Head of Cancer Research UK Labs and Senior Group Leader at the Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge, has been awarded the Gagna A. & Ch. Van Heck Prize 2015 in Belgium, "for his cardinal contributions related to cellular events that detect, signal the presence...

The Stephen Hawking Centre for Theoretical Cosmology receives honours in 2015 HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards

The Stephen Hawking Centre for Theoretical Cosmology (CTC) at the University of Cambridge has been recognised in the annual HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards, with the Readers Choice award for Best Use of High Performance Data Analytics

Marjory Stephenson Prize awarded to Professor Steve Oliver

The 2016 Marjory Stephenson Prize will be awarded to Steve Oliver, Professor of Systems Biology & Biochemistry at the University of Cambridge and Director of the Cambridge Systems Biology Centre.

Nursing Times Award for Clinical Research Nursing 2015 and upcoming publication of pioneering research model

Following on from their success in the annual Nursing Times Awards, the Cambridge BioResource Nursing Team are now about to have an article published in the Nursing Times.

Per-Olof Wikström selected as winner of the 2016 Stockholm Prize in Criminology

Per-Olof Wikström, Professor of Ecological and Developmental Criminology, Director of the Centre for Analytic Criminology, and Fellow of Girton College, Travis Warren Hirschi (University of Arizona) and Cathy Spatz Widom (John Jay College of Criminal Justice) have been awarded the 2016 Stockholm...

Cambridge researchers awarded Philip Leverhulme Prizes for 2015

Dr John Rudge (Department of Earth Sciences), Dr Suchitra Sebastian (Department of Physics), and Dr Renaud Gagné (Faculty of Classics) have been awarded Philip Leverhulme Prizes in recognition of their outstanding research work.

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