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In the clearing stands a boxer: the contents Terme Boxer is the latest addition to the University Library celebrates 600 years Museum of Classical Archaeology’s cast gallery. Resting on a rock and wearing Cambridge University Library printed book, the Gutenberg Bible. display make it the largest open-shelf

the magazI fur-lined gloves, the bearded fighter’s ne for the Cover Staff of the UnI verSIty of CambrI laptops and lattés dge lent term 2016 is celebrating its 600th anniversary The exhibition also highlights collection in Europe. broken nose and cauliflower ears reflect Thanks to laptops and tablets, top tips for café working a long, hard career. The burnished cafés can be great places for this year with a series of events, more recent treasures, including Other activities will offer visitors bronzed plaster cast is a replica of the meetings and quiet work, as exhibitions and exciting opportunities Charles Darwin’s first pencil sketches new ways of interacting with the Hellenistic sculpture unearthed in Rome well as coffee and cake.W e for visitors to explore one of the of species theory and his primate Library’s treasures, including events world’s greatest libraries. tree, and Stephen Hawking’s draft that are part of the Open Cambridge in 1885. asked staff for their favourite transforming It Cambridge at page 5 Super sonic: tuning in to sound Celebrations began in February typescript of A Brief History of Time. weekend, videos, curator tours, l ent term page 6 2016 | UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE NE

wSl out-of-office workspaces – ETTER | 1 here are their hot tips. when Cambridge’s e-Luminate A second exhibition opening in children’s workshops and Words that Festival let visitors see the UL’s iconic October 2016 will feature some of the Changed the World – a free interactive 2-4 News round-up 17-storey tower in a whole new light. UL’s more unusual curiosities. app for iPad. This will be followed by Lines of The UL – which is older than both Strictly come dining: the sequinned 5 Know your University Thought: Discoveries that Changed the the British Library and the Vatican UL: open to all success of the Cambridge Dancesport With work underway to reorganise World, the UL’s first major exhibition Library – was first mentioned by The UL welcomes anyone with a team is the subject of a new exhibition Cambridge’s IT services, Dr Martin for 2016 and centrepiece of its 600th name in two wills dated 1416. research interest to use the Library of photographs in the Main Dining Bellamy explains how the changes will anniversary. It runs from 11 March to One of six legal deposit libraries whether or not they are a member Hall at the University Centre. Taken benefit staff, students and University 30 September and is free and open in the UK, the UL has been entitled to of the University, or any other by Simon Halliday, Chief Custodian at institutions. to all. On show will be some of the one copy of every publication in the university. Undergraduates from the Faculty of History, the photographs 6-7 Behind the scenes oldest objects in the UL’s collections, UK and Ireland since 1710. Today, it other UK universities can use it in present an intimate portrait of one When the Museum of Zoology reopens including 3,000-year old Chinese holds eight million books, journals, the holidays. It is free for most, with of the University’s most dominant and next year, visitors to its new whale hall oracle bones, a 2nd century CE maps and magazines on shelves a £10 fee for some categories of use. successful sports teams. will be bathed in sounds of the sea. fragment of Homer’s Odyssey and that stretch for more than 100 miles. It only takes 10 minutes to join: call Becky Allen takes soundings from four Western Europe’s earliest substantive Its two million volumes on open 01223 333030 for details. researchers whose research is immersed H a ll iday in sound. S imon 8 Cover feature Heong Gallery opens its doors: Cambridge’s newest gallery opened 9 People Cavendish Lab funding boost at Downing in February. Dedicated to modern and contemporary art, the 10 Prizes, awards and honours The government has announced been at the heart of the laboratory’s gallery’s first exhibition is Generation 11 Small adverts a £75 million investment in the programme since its foundation.” Painting 1955-65: British Art from the Cavendish Laboratory as part of The Cavendish Laboratory has an Collection of Sir Alan Bowness. A former Front cover photograph: Chris Loades its autumn spending review. This extraordinary history of discovery Director of the Tate Gallery, Bowness 2015 will be matched with a further £75 and innovation in physics since is an alumnus of Downing and his million from the University. its opening in 1874, including the collection includes work by Peter

F oundation The funding boost will help determination of the double-helix Lanyon and William Scott (right). Runs to maintain Britain’s leading position in structure of DNA by Francis Crick and

22 May 2016. Open Wednesdays 10-8pm S cott physical sciences research, and will James Watson. and weekends 10-6pm. transform the Cavendish Laboratory. The Vice-Chancellor, Sir Leszek Wi ll iam © © Among other exciting projects, Borysiewicz, said: “This is fantastic Fitzwilliam festivities: the Fitzwilliam newsletter the Cavendish will be developing news. The Cavendish is – and will Museum is celebrating its 200th The Newsletter is published for the staff of the new devices with extremely low serve as – a national asset, to the anniversary in 2016 with a year-long University of Cambridge and is produced by the power for off-grid information benefit of research both in Cambridge programme of special exhibitions, Office of External Affairs and Communications. technology and communications, and across the UK. events and concerts. Kicking off the If you have a story, or ideas for ways we can improve creating new smart materials for “This announcement festivities is The Fitzwilliam Museum: a the publication, please get in touch. engineering applications, and demonstrates the government’s History, a new book and accompanying Tel: (3)32300 or email [email protected]. looking for signs of life on newly commitment to regional and national Managing Editor: Andrew Aldridge exhibition exploring the museum’s past, discovered planets in other solar scientific growth and innovation. It Editor: Becky Allen systems. presents a major opportunity for us to present and future through key themes, ambridge Design: Creative Warehouse, Cambridge , C , Welcoming the news Professor create a world-leading facility in the characters and significant objects. Printer: Printerbello, Cambridge Andy Parker, Head of the Cavendish heart of the greater Cambridge high- Runs all year. Contributors: Becky Allen and Andrew Aldridge museum Laboratory, said: “This funding tech cluster and deliver a step-change Newsletter online allows us to continue the tradition of in physical science research capability innovation and originality that has in the UK.”

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charge on up to five devices at home and at work. The agreement also provides access to other services for departments, institutions and the 26 Colleges that have taken advantage of it. Other areas of focus include digital education, security management and data storage. Teaching and learning in the digital age Much of the work that UIS has focused on to date has been about establishing The University has launched a According to Professor Graham core capability. This has fallen into new learning and teaching strategy Virgo, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for two key categories: first, establishing that could see iPads and other new Education: “Our primary aim is a governance framework; and second, technology added to traditional excellence in teaching and learning developing the people and structure lectures and supervisions. – and we will use all tools, both within UIS. Building on existing efforts to traditional and innovative, to achieve On the former, the provision of IT at ensure high-quality teaching and this goal. So while the supervision the University is now overseen by the learning across the University, one and lectures remain right at the Information Services Committee (ISC), of the strategy’s new priorities is heart of a Cambridge education, we which is chaired by the Senior Pro- to enhance education through must ensure we make the best use of Vice-Chancellor. The new governance new technology, including the technological advances to enhance structure is designed to help UIS

introduction of ‘digital champions’. our provision.” Loades consult widely and systematically, and

Technology could also be used “In lectures and supervisions, C hris get support for decisions and forward to improve access to learning we are considering how we might planning. materials, making them available to introduce greater digital interaction. directly to the student.” strategy and its action plan will be The design and restructure of UIS students outside term-time or for For example, students might work The new strategy also includes reviewed annually by the Education itself is now complete although some examinations, and to open up new from iPads or other personal a review of the University’s Committee. recruitment is still underway. A significant opportunities for teaching staff to devices, with information being examination arrangements and plans For more information, visit Vital connections and notable investment has gone into the engage with students. transferred from the lecturer to improve student wellbeing. The http://tinyurl.com/j5xjfah. formation of two outward-facing teams, each of which will deploy Relationship Why should you care about how IT is provided at Cambridge? Managers to work with different areas Because information is at the heart of what universities do, of the University. The idea is that each of Education; Dr Stephanie Palmer represented area feels that it has its own Celebrating 25 years of service from the Faculty of Law; Andrew says Director of Information Services Martin Bellamy. virtual information services organisation, Bowker from the Fitzwilliam Museum; And there are some important changes underway with an expert and advocate who can Isabella Warren from the Scott Polar bring their needs back to UIS and the from the Department of Engineering; Research Institute; Carol Miller and people who provide central IT services Professor Steve Russell from the Adam Perkins from the University and systems. Department of Genetics; Professor Libaray; Dr Andrew Bannister from Over the past 18 months, Martin “Whatever the harness the innovation that goes on in That aside, why should an individual Sir Colin Humphreys from the the Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research Bellamy has been leading one of the individual research projects, as well as academic or administrator care that the Department of Materials Science & UK Gurdon Institute; and Mark Smith, most significant transformations of discipline, it is those using technology for teaching and University is reorganising its IT? Metallurgy; Dr Richard Sandford Robert King, Alistair Kitching and Cambridge’s IT services for 20 years. important to learning,” he says. “I would say that this is the digital from the Department of Medical Nick Cole from University Information The task: to take four specialist and “We would like to create a climate era, that IT is increasingly pervasive Genetics; Krishna Chatterjee from Services. highly independent providers – the access, analyse, where those innovations are more readily in all walks of life, and whatever the the Department of Medicine; Mark University Computing Service, the visualise, discoverable and sharable with others.” discipline it is important to be able to Forty-seven staff celebrating occur from time to time.” Smith, Professor Christopher Management Information Services One initiative that Dr Bellamy hopes access, analyse, visualise, share and 25 years of service gathered at the Those honoured were: John Ford and Richard Gymer from the in brief Division, the High Performance share and will stimulate this kind of exchange is communicate information. This is one Old Schools in January for a special Turner, Chris Mortimer, Dr Stephen Department of Physics; Professor Calling creatives Computing Service, and the Centre communicate a new information services catalogue of the areas in which universities are reception hosted by the Vice- Cowley and Professor Adrian Kent Sarah Bray and Fiona Duncan for Applied Research in Educational for institutions across the University, investing,” says Dr Bellamy. Chancellor. from the Department of Applied from the Department of Physiology, A new network has been set up to Technologies – and mould them into a information” a version of which was trialled in the “The internet is also a tool that helps The guests of honour included Mathematics and Theoretical Physics; Development and Neuroscience; give creative staff at Cambridge single organisation capable of providing School of Arts and Humanities. researchers create impact, share their academics and other staff from across Rachel Agnew from the Botanic Tracey Theobald-Greaves from a forum to share ideas and outstanding support for the University’s The catalogue describes, and gives work with others, collaborate, and the University who between them Garden; Rosalinda Fella from the the Department of Psychology; promote their artwork. Director of research, teaching and administration. access to, IT services offered by the network with academics on a global have provided a combined total of Careers Service; Professor Martin Julie Jenkins from the Department International Programmes Sarah Dr Bellamy – who took up his post in School and its faculties, as well as those scale. All of these things can be enhanced 1,175 years of service. Jones and Professor Susan Bayly of Public Health and Primary Care; Ormrod said: “The University is full March 2014 – has been guided by the managed by UIS. The hope is that it will by the right information services.” Thanking them for their long from the Department of Archaeology Professor David Lomas from the of creative minds and also cares recommendations made in the Joint provide a platform where academics, The work delivered over the past 18 service, Vice-Chancellor Sir Leszek and Anthropology; Dr Neil Harris Department of Radiology; Madeline for and researches its remarkable Report of the Council and General Board and those such as computer officers who months, and continuing into 2016, will Borysiewicz said: “Twenty-five years is and Professor Roderic Jones from Fordham, Julie Milner and Dr Alana collections of artworks. The group on IT infrastructure and support. But he support academics, can offer information mean that the collegiate University will a mark of your faith in the University the Department of Chemistry; Linda Thackray from the Department of will be a way for those of us who has also spotted other opportunities on what is being done locally so that be in a position to develop a cohesive IT as your employer, and a wonderful Booth, Martin Walker and Professor Veterinary Medicine; John Neve are driven to create art ourselves to for service enhancement that have the others might benefit. strategy and vision for the longer term. commitment to the life of this Keith Priestley from the Department from Estate Management; Dr Sara easily engage in conversation, even potential to forge productive interactions Another important service A strategy that genuinely supports the institution. The University is proud of Earth Sciences; Tim Ablett, Cathy Horrell and Dr Ha-Joon Chang if it’s just about where to buy the with the wider IT and academic enhancement is an enterprise agreement University’s mission, and creates services, of the numbers of its staff with long Salkield, Igor Wowk, Professor from the Faculty of Economics; best art materials.” community. with Microsoft to provide Microsoft Office systems and teams that give Cambridge a service records – even half-centuries Malcolm Smith and Robert Leroy Dr Michael Evans from the Faculty Email: [email protected]. “A key opportunity is the potential to software to staff and students free of leading edge.

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Instead, people can opt to immerse “Much remains A musicologist and cultural historian, schizophrenia, depression and certain themselves in the piece – or ignore it. Trippett is studying similarities between neurological disorders. Sometimes “I’d like simply to fill the space with these a mystery about scientific and musical thought, arguing benign, they are more often unpleasant, disembodied voices from the oceans and how the sounds that certain technologies – such as critical, hostile voices – yet they do the choirs we recorded, so rather like the stethoscope and the steam train – not originate in sound waves from the being in warm bathwater you’re bathed that surround changed the way that people listened. outside world. in this acoustic,” he explains. “It won’t us influence our “Suddenly you have this incredibly “There’s an increasing recognition be like audio wallpaper – it will ebb and noisy form of transport,” he says. “It’s that the brain creates voices and sounds flow in the way tides do, dynamically. emotions and hard to overestimate how noisy it was that reflect not what’s coming in, but There will be times when it’s not there, our thought – from the clackety-clack rhythm of the rather what’s already in the brain. That’s because like any piece of music the gaps processes” trains to the dynamiting of the tunnels something that really intrigues me, this are important.” – and many composers wrote musical notion that whether in illness or not, your responses to this new environment.” brain is making stuff up,” he says. Open your ears Over the next five years Trippett, Faced with the need to assemble a Finding quiet places where we can with colleagues in Engineering, will be model of its world from intensive and hear less but listen more is increasingly conducting a sort of sonic time travel noisy inputs, it seems likely that the brain difficult, something Watson – who listens experiment. Using data from track uses prior experience to shape current for a living – finds disturbing. “I was with length and train speed to the number of inputs, which means perception is a the dog on the beach one evening over wheels and density of materials, they will negotiation between the two. Fletcher’s Christmas. Standing in a place where attempt to create an acoustic replica of hypothesis is that hallucinations arise there’s no noise pollution, you can open these monstrous machines. when the balance is weighted too heavily your ears and start to listen and engage As well as giving us a genuine in favour of what’s already in the brain, with your environment. It changes your acoustic foothold in the lost historical rather than incoming signals, and test perception of the whole world,” he says. past, he hopes the project will also results bear this out. Compared with the care we invest in illuminate the present: “We live in an By giving people particular our visual environment, we seem much age of dizzying technological change, perceptions and then manipulating less careful – and know much less – about so it is illuminating to look at previous what they know or expect about those our sonic surroundings, says Cross. “While ages when technological advancement perceptions – for example by playing we have a good understanding of concert was similarly rapid and affected social them garbled sound clips, then an

B etts B etts hall acoustics and robust measures of behaviour.” intelligible version – he has found that noise, much remains a mystery about people with early psychosis perform A nna A nna how the sounds that surround us in our ‘Rubbing out’ sound significantly better, suggesting they everyday lives influence the quality of our Whereas Trippett wants to re-hear long- place more weight on prior experience. emotions and the effectiveness of our lost sound, Dr Richard Turner from the The results could help us understand thought processes,” he says. Department of Engineering is working the mechanisms by which such One of Cross’s fields of research is on ‘rubbing out’ so-called texture symptoms arise, something that until Surround sound acoustic archaeology and, together sounds. “An often neglected family of now psychiatry has been unable to with Dr Elizabeth Blake of the McDonald sounds – pattering rain drops, howling do. “We don’t know why someone Institute for Archaeological Research, he wind or running water – they have this would hear voices and this research When the Museum of Zoology reopens If you close your eyes in Cambridge, Composed by award-winning sound has pioneered a framework for mapping loose definition that they’re comprised of is about trying to get at a mechanism what do you hear? Standing on Garret recordist Chris Watson, Ocean Song has ancient soundscapes: not only special lots of independent events,” he explains. by which the experience arises,” next year, visitors will be greeted by Hostel Lane, eyes shut, my ears tune been commissioned by the Museum of sites such as the caves and chasms Turner is developing ways to model Fletcher concludes. “And it might be Ocean Song, a new composition of into the swish of traffic on the Backs; Zoology for the new entrance hall and that might be marked by ancient rock these sounds so that they can be erased a way of finding markers for the early over the bridge, bicycle bells ring; and home to its emblem, the fin whale. paintings and carvings, but also the just as spam filters remove unwanted development of illness and for guiding marine mammals and human voices. from the river, laughter bubbles up from Throughout 2015 Watson (best known surrounding landscapes these sites would email, and one potential application is to cognitive treatments.” Becky Allen talks to sound recordist Chris tourists waiting to board a punt. for BBC natural history blockbusters from have been a counterpoint to. suppress background noise for people I’m replicating an exercise from Ian Frozen Planet to Life of Birds), choir leader “The framework is to measure and who wear hearing aids. “Ideally, we’d like Watson about the project and takes Cross’s student days. Now Professor Rowena Whitehead and Rosalyn Wade of describe all the environments someone to make an intelligent device that can a sonic journey through engineering, of Music and Science at Cambridge, as the Museum of Zoology collected human would have inhabited and work out anticipate the user’s needs and deliver an undergraduate at City University, song at 20 workshops in Cambridge which are more normal and frequented, sound that’s appropriate for the tasks Find out more neuroscience, history and music with London he remembers Canadian and beyond. “It evolved into this very and which, such as caves, are anomalous,” that the user wants to perform.” four Cambridge researchers whose work composer Murray Schafer leading a collaborative piece,” he says, “because says Cross. Hearing and seeing, however, ➔ Ocean Song is funded by the Heritage sound walk through the City of London. the museum wanted to include the are not passive processes, and how Lottery Fund and Arts Council England. revolves around sound “We had to hold hands and walk in a voices of people as well as recordings of History is deaf the brain shapes perception is what For more information visit chain with our eyes closed. If you can sea mammals and sounds of the ocean.” Across Cambridge and across centuries, concerns Professor Paul Fletcher of https://oceansongproject.wordpress.com do it safely, close your eyes and move Watson has a clear vision of the Dr David Trippett of the Faculty of Music the Department of Psychiatry. “Our ➔ Find out more about acoustical from one space to another – it’ll be atmosphere he wants to create in the is also looking for new ways to hear our experience of the world laid out in front instruments at the Whipple Museum at quite a shock.” new whale hall: “What I’ve learned silent past. “The way we write about of us, as if we’re peeping through our eye www.hps.cam.ac.uk/whipple/explore/ From next year, Cambridge’s through my public installations is that history has typically relied on documents, holes at reality, is an illusion,” he says. acoustics familiar soundscape of bike bells, the presentation of the work is crucial objects and artefacts, and they are silent,” “Our brain does an awful lot of the work.” ➔ Do you have a favourite Cambridge tourists and traffic will be joined by to people’s engagement with it. It’s very he says. “We can’t hear anything before Fletcher is currently studying sound? Send us a recording and a sounds you’d usually need to travel 50 easy to drown people out with sounds, sound recording was invented in the auditory hallucinations, a feature of description and we’ll post it with the miles to hear – the sounds of the sea. and that’s a complete turn-off.” second half of the 19th century.” psychosis which can affect people with online version of the Newsletter.

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New PVCs for Research, and Enterprise and Regional Affairs

Thinking and Two new Pro-Vice-Chancellors “We also need to improve transport of Postdoctoral Affairs at Cambridge. began their term of office on 1 January: and housing so that our staff can travel Professor Abell said: “I am thrilled to Professor Nigel Slater, Pro-Vice- into work safely and efficiently. During be joining the PVC team and excited Chancellor for Enterprise and Regional the next three years I would like to make about promoting the incredible research drinking Courtyard Café, Fitzwilliam Museum Affairs, and Professor Chris Abell, Pro- an impact on working with industry, agenda in the University.” Vice-Chancellor for Research. spinning out the Cambridge effect to the The role of Pro-Vice-Chancellors The Fitzwilliam Museum’s bright and busy Courtyard Professor Nigel Slater leads the broader region, and with the City Deal is to take forward strategy and policy Café is a firm favourite among staff. “There’s a certain Bioscience Engineering Research Group, make some impact on transport. Then development and to support the Vice- Meeting space may be at a premium across the serenity that hits you whether in the café or the which investigates new ways to make and we’ll be moving in the right direction.” Chancellor in providing institutional galleries and that serenity and calm is really good for University but cafés and open spaces can make a great stabilise bio-pharmaceutical products Professor Chris Abell is a biological leadership for the University, particularly getting a clear head. The whole place offers a delicious Professor Nigel Slater including proteins, DNA, viruses and chemist and today leads two research in their areas of responsibility. The Pro- alternative to departments and colleges. We asked staff change of pace to the Disability Resource Centre,” cells. He is a Fellow and former President teams in the Department of Chemistry Vice-Chancellors work closely with the says Disability Adviser Kirsty Wayland. “As a mentor on to share their favourite out-of-office workspace of Fitzwilliam, and former Head of the pioneering the use of fragment- Heads of Schools and senior professional occasion I’ve met with students in the museum, either Department of Chemical Engineering and based approaches in drug discovery, administrators. in the café or in a quiet corner. Both provide a certain Biotechnology. and developing microdroplets as an The full team of Pro-Vice-Chancellors distance from the University. The access is good for According to Slater, who also experimental platform. Co-founder of is: Professor Duncan Maskell (Senior wheelchair users and I can negotiate most of the represents the University on the several companies, including Sphere Pro-Vice-Chancellor); Professor Chris ground floor alone.” Cambridge City Deal Executive Board Fluidics and Aqdot, he was a founding Abell (Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research); and is charged with enhancing the director of Cambridge Enterprise. Professor Eilis Ferran (Pro-Vice-Chancellor The great outdoors University’s interests in the East Anglia An undergraduate and postgraduate for Institutional and International region: “Part of my new role will be at Cambridge, he returned to the Relations); Professor Nigel Slater (Pro- Professor Chris Abell Cambridge’s commons and college gardens are to develop closer collaborations with University after doing postdoctoral Vice-Chancellor for Enterprise and West café, Hauser Forum Hot numbers, Trumpington St great places to work once the weather warms up. industry, both large and small, in research research at Brown University, and from Regional Affairs); and Professor Graham Professor Bill Sutherland of the Department of and training. 2013 to 2015 was the first Director Virgo (Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Education). One of West Cambridge’s newer The second branch of Hot Numbers in Zoology recommends Coe Fen for fresh air or al fresco social spaces, this café wins praise for Cambridge, this is the place for coffee meetings. “After spending too much time working its pleasant buzz, its bright and airy connoisseurs: “Hot Numbers is cool intensely indoors, visitors love walking amongst these other appointments atmosphere and its mix of colourful – it looks good, and its sole purpose beautiful, cow-grazed wet grasslands,” he says. “And chairs, tables and couches. Dr Sasha is to accommodate people doing in the spring I enjoy searching for the peculiar purple ➔ Dr Rob Wallach has been Lane, which opened in 2014, further first key task we are embarking on is Turchyn of the Department of Earth something around a coffee, whether toothwort – a chlorophyll-free plant that parasitises appointed Director of Postdoctoral offices will open on the Biomedical development of a strategy for sport at Sciences is a regular. “It’s a great place to that is chatting, reading or just sitting the roots of many of the willows.” Affairs. He is a Life Fellow – and Campus this summer and at North Cambridge so that this diversity and wait until I need to pick my daughters and thinking,” says Sigrid Fisher, Head of recently Vice-Provost – of King’s and West Cambridge next year. complexity can be effectively harnessed up from the nursery opposite, so it Equality & Diversity in the HR Division. an Emeritus Senior Lecturer in the ➔ Emma Rampton is the University’s as a strength when planning priorities allows me to get an extra 20 minutes “Being close to the office, it is a great Department of Materials Science & new Academic Secretary following for future investment.” of work done,” she says. “You can sit by place to meet colleagues from other Metallurgy. His research has focused the retirement of Graham Allen. ➔ Caroline Van Eck has been the window and look out at the fields parts of the University or from outside on joining materials, developing Formerly Deputy University Secretary appointed Cambridge’s first established or the duck pond. There’s a nice mixture – it offers a space that, because it’s not new approaches and addressing and Head of the Council Secretariat at chair in the History of Art. A noted oades Emma Rampton l of people there, from academics and ‘gown’, isn’t intimidating to external challenging applications from aircraft the University of Oxford, Ms Rampton authority on European architecture and admin staff, to families with kids. And it guests, as well as a neutral backdrop to engine turbine blades to electronic worked as a lawyer before joining the figurative arts, Professor Van Eck chris makes great filter coffee.” discuss business matters.” circuits. He is committed to teaching Oxford. The Academic Secretary’s joins the University in October 2016. and has run summer schools and principal role is to support the She received her PhD in the Department pictures outreach activities to raise awareness General Board, which is responsible of Philosophy at the University of grads café, university centre of sustainability issues and materials for the University’s academic policy, Amsterdam, was appointed Professor science, and to broaden access for overseeing the teaching and research of Architectural History and Theory at Tucked away at the top of the University school pupils and teachers. undertaken by the Schools, faculties, Leiden University in 2006 and has been Centre, Grads (right) is worth visiting for The number of postdocs at the departments and other institutions. a visiting professor at the universities of the view alone and is a popular place University has doubled over the past ➔ January saw Nick Brooking start Yale, York and Ghent. for quiet work or meetings. According 15 years and, says Wallach, they are work as the University’s first Director Nick Brooking ➔ Eske Willerslev succeeds Tim to Anne-Cécile Larribau of the Office of crucial for maintaining Cambridge’s of Sport. Before joining Cambridge, Clutton-Brock as the new Prince Philip External Affairs and Communications: world-leading position. “Much Brooking worked in the same role Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary “It’s a very versatile space, where you of our ground-breaking research at the University of Hertfordshire, Biology, joining Cambridge from can concentrate on work or relax with is undertaken by our younger leading the team that developed Copenhagen University. Willerslev is an a book whilst enjoying the great view researchers, and improving recognition Hertfordshire’s sports facilities and its evolutionary biologist known for his over the river, or meet up with friends and integration of this key group of award-winning student social sport pioneering work on ancient DNA, and for a chat. It’s relaxed and unassuming, To find other spaces to employees is timely and essential,” programme. “Cambridge has unique over coming years plans to establish very accessible, and I love its brightness. work or study, visit https:// he said. complexity in its sporting provision an ancient DNA facility in Cambridge It’s a place that fits every mood – spacefinder.lib.cam.ac.uk Building on the success of the with so many individuals, clubs and that will be used by a broad range of whether lazy, solitary, active or sociable.” Office of Postdoctoral Affairs in Mill organisations involved,” he said. “The Professor Eske Willerslev researchers and departments.

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has been awarded the Medal of Honour ➔ Deborah Howard (Department distinguished edition of letters. Interdisciplinary Prize 2015 has been Awards by the Universidad Complutense de of History of Art) has been awarded ➔ Dr John Rudge (Department of awarded to Professor Sir Mark Sports to the fore Madrid. an Honorary Doctorate of Letters at Earth Sciences), Dr Suchitra Sebastian Welland (Department of Engineering) ➔ Professor Dame Ann Dowling of ➔ Dr Claire Fenton-Glynn (Faculty University College Dublin. (Department of Physics) and Dr Renaud and Professor Andres Floto in UAS awards the Department of Engineering has of Law) has been awarded the 2015 ➔ Dr Dinakantha Suramya Gagné (Faculty of Classics) have been (Department of Medicine) for research been appointed to the Order of Merit Inner Temple new author’s prize for her Kumararatne (Department of awarded Philip Leverhulme Prizes on tuberculosis drug treatments. Sports staff at Cambridge won two by HM The Queen, and is one of several book Children’s Rights in Intercountry Medicine) has won the 2015 UK Primary in recognition of their outstanding Together they developed an innovative awards in the UAS Employee Recognition members of the University recognised in Adoption. The Faculty’s Professor Neil Immunodeficiency Network’s Lifetime research work. approach to improve efficacy, Scheme. Announced at a ceremony in the New Year’s Honours list. Professor Andrews was runner-up in the main Achievement Award for ‘unstinting ➔ African Modernism: Architecture and reduce side effects and prevent the December, the awards recognise the Professor Dame Ann Dowling Professor Robert Mair David MacKay (Department of book prize competition for his work service to the primary immune Independence, a book co-edited by development of drug resistance in the outstanding work done by UAS staff – Engineering) was knighted ‘for services Andrews on Civil Processes. deficiency community throughout Ingrid Schröder of the Department of treatment of the disease. both as individuals and teams. to scientific advice in government and ➔ Professor Phil Gibbard of the his career, specifically in the field of Architecture has won the gold medal for ➔ Dr James Westbrook of the Faculty Sports Service ground staff were science outreach’. Harvey McGrath, an Department of Geography has mycobacterial disease and cytokine the best art book of 2015 at the Festival of Music has received the 2015 Terence joint winners of the team award in the Honorary Fellow of St Catharine’s and been appointed Secretary General defects’. International du Livre d’Art et du Film. Pamplin Award for Organology given ‘We deliver an effective and high-quality co-chair of the £2 billion fundraising of the International Commission ➔ Dr Nancy Lane of the Department of Focusing on architecture of the 1960s by the Musicians’ Company. service’ category and the Sports Centre campaign for the University and Colleges on Stratigraphy (ICS). Part of the Zoology has been awarded an honorary and 70s in sub-Saharan Africa, the book ➔ Professor Per-Olof Wikström of Fitness Team won the team award in the of Cambridge, was also knighted. International Union of Geological Doctorate of Science by Heriot-Watt accompanied a major exhibition at the the Institute of Criminology has been ‘We respect others and value diversity’ Professor Alastair Compston (School of Sciences, the ICS sets global standards University, Edinburgh, in recognition of Vitra Design Museum Gallery. awarded the 2016 Stockholm Prize category. The individual winner in the Clinical Medicine) was appointed CBE ‘for for the fundamental scale for her contribution to the advancement of ➔ Fighting Cancer: Animal Research in Criminology. The prize is awarded same category was Caroline Newman, Polly Courtice Professor Steve Oliver services to multiple sclerosis treatment’ expressing Earth history. women in the communities of science, at Cambridge, a film by Jonny Settle for outstanding achievements in Senior HR Adviser at the School of Clinical and Dr Emily Shuckburgh of the Faculty ➔ The GK Batchelor Prize for 2016 has engineering and technology, and in the Office of External Affairs criminological research or for the Medicine. of Mathematics has been appointed been awarded to Professor Raymond distinction in the field of cell biology. and Communications about how application of research results by The individual award in the ‘We OBE ‘for services to science and public Goldstein (Department of Applied ➔ Professor Adam Ledgeway of scientists use mice to study cancer, has practitioners for reducing crime and collaborate and work in partnership’ communication of science’. Mathematics and Theoretical Physics). the Faculty of Modern and Medieval received a 2015 Openness Award from advancing human rights. Wikström’s category was won by HR Adviser Kat ➔ Andra Adams, a PhD student in The prize is sponsored by the Journal Languages has been awarded an Understanding Animal Research. work – including his ten-year study Willcox, with joint team winners from the Computer Laboratory, has won of Fluid Mechanics and awarded to honorary Doctor Honoris Causa by the ➔ Professor Florin Udrea of the of 716 families in Peterborough – has Payroll and the Higher Education Statistics the ‘transforming society’ category scientists whose research has made University of Bucharest. 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