Cambridge Development & Alumni Relations
@YoursCambridge
The University of Cambridge Development and Alumni Relations office. Supporting excellence in education and research through philanthropy and alumni engagement.
🐝Did you know we keep bees at the UL? Dr Melonie Schmierer-Lee explains how she cares for our colony of bees - including queen bee, Brontë! #CambridgeUniversityLibrary #UrbanBeekeeping #Beekeeping #Cambridge Video by Blazej Mikula
📢 We are thrilled to announce that the @wolfsonfdn has awarded the @EarlyCancerCam funding for its multidisciplinary research on early cancer detection. The Early Cancer Institute will bring together engineers, physicists, and computer scientists to work with clinical…
Welcome to the newest members of our global #CambridgeAlumni community! 👋
Congratulations to the 39 Pembroke graduands who received their degrees in person today, and the further eight who received them in absentia. To mark his final graduation ceremony as Master and to welcome him as Chancellor, Lord Smith was clapped out of the Senate House.
Our new Chancellor, Lord Smith, spoke to @BBCr4today to share his thoughts on academic freedom and freedom of speech at universities. Find out more about Lord Smith and the role of Chancellor at Cambridge 👉 cam.ac.uk/news/new-chanc…
The newly appointed Chancellor of Cambridge University says he wants to 'protect and defend' academic freedom and freedom of speech. Lord Smith tells #R4Today that if students disagree with someone, they should 'go along and listen' and start a discussion.
Pembroke warmly congratulates our retiring Master Lord Smith (1969) on his election as the 109th Chancellor of @Cambridge_Uni. pem.cam.ac.uk/college/news/l…
Impact Prize winners Urbasi Sinha, Alex Grigore, Uche Ogechukwu, Emily Kassie, Anoop Tripathi, Mona Jebril & Emma Houiellebecq talk about the impact of their work & of belonging to the Gates Cambridge community #gatescambridge25 @GatesAlumni @Cambridge_Uni @YoursCambridge
📢 Booking is now open for the Alumni Festival 2025! Join us from 26 to 28 September in Cambridge for a weekend filled with inspiring talks, behind-the-scenes tours, hands-on workshops, concerts, and more. 🎟️ Get your tickets: web-eur.cvent.com/event/b023989b… This year's Festival is…
Lord Chris Smith has been elected as the new Chancellor of the University of Cambridge @Cambridge_Uni. Lord Smith said “To be elected as Chancellor of the University I love is a huge honour. I’m thrilled." Read more about Lord Smith and the Chancellor election:…
Watch Isobel Heyman, one of our Clinical Leads, talk about the importance of philanthropy for Cambridge Children's Hospital 👇🏼 Our hospital will unite mental and physical healthcare with world-leading life sciences research in a whole new way, treating mind and body as one.
"They're a really creative team, so they're full of ideas" As part of the @ACTcharity's 30th celebrations, Dr Isobel Heyman from @CambChildrens and Lead Advisory Nurse, Elaine Chapman from @CambCancer (@CUH_NHS) told That's TV about how ACT has supported both projects.
What was it like to be a teenage boy in Soviet Russia? A remarkable trove of 25 never-before-studied diaries reveal tales of love, lust, boredom, famine, exile, conscription and much more. Discover the fascinating findings of Slavonic Studies expert @ezadirko, @TrinCollCam at…
The food we eat comes with a much greater environmental cost than we thought. In the world’s biggest bird survey conducted across Colombia, scientists @camplantsci found rainforest clearance causes around 60% more biodiversity loss than previously estimated. Here's why this…
An asteroid named after the first paid female astronomer at Cambridge🔭 Annie Walker was a Victorian astronomer whose pioneering work at the University has been uncovered more than 100 years later. ⭐ New research has found that Annie quickly progressed to observing stars,…
Welcome to the alumni community Dr Laura Ryan, who completed her PhD in Molecular Neurogenetics last year! 📘 Laura explored autophagy, an essential cellular process that acts like the cell’s internal rubbish disposal system, at the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research…
A generous gift is creating life-changing opportunities for more young people from underrepresented backgrounds. 🔭 @Cambridge_Uni and @UniofOxford have each received a £6.25 million gift to expand their outreach work with socio-economically disadvantaged students in science,…
We’re thrilled to announce that Oxford and Cambridge have each received a gift of £6.25 million to expand STEM outreach for disadvantaged students, from GCSE mentoring to online teaching and residential programmes, supporting the next generation of scientists and engineers. ⬇️
📢 Generous studentship honouring alumnus for health research 💉 The Raymond C. Read and Lillian J. Gostick PhD Studentship will focus on epidemiology, public health, global health, or infectious disease research at @HLRI_Cambridge and @Selwyn1882. 🔗 philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/impact-of-givi…
Alumna Darshana Joshi (Hughes Hall, Cambridge 2012) is transforming India's STEM for girls. 🔭 Darshana gained a scholarship to support her PhD in Physics, and now, having returned to New Delhi, she is running a global charity inspiring young people to enable access to STEM…
Congratulations to Downing alumni John Chapman, Professor Lucie Cluver and Group Captain Rachel Dixon, who have been recognised in this year’s King’s Birthday Honours. Find out more: dow.cam.ac.uk/kings-birthday… Image of John Chapman courtesy of BBC Look East.
Interested in hearing where a Cambridge degree can take you? Find out what some of our latest graduates are up to next 🎓 Just graduated? Stay connected with Cambridge: alumni.cam.ac.uk/graduation-yea…
Impact Prize winner @emilykassie on making her award-winning film Sugarcane about the long-term impact of systematic abuse on indigenous people in Canada. @Dept_of_POLIS @stjohnscam @GatesAlumni @gatesfoundation @YoursCambridge #sugarcare #gatescambridge25