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Two professors from CEB and the Department of Engineering triumph in the Royal Society of Chemistry’s 2024 Emerging Technologies Competition with joint project H2Upgrade, an innovative solution for converting industrial waste into high-purity hydrogen.

https://www.ceb.cam.ac.uk/news/prize-winning-tech

Dr. Ljiljana Fruk's Bionano Engineering research group at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology (CEB) is set to play a pivotal role in a major research hub using advances in quantum technology to revolutionise early disease detection and treatment.

https://www.ceb.cam.ac.uk/news/pivotal-role-research-hub

Three colleagues from different University of Cambridge departments have come together to call for change among the academic publishing community, as they discuss the inequitable recognition of joint authors. Professor Róisín M. Owens (Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology), Liz Simmonds (Head of Research...

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A study by researchers at the University of Cambridge has revealed a potential way to apply renewable power to clean the Earth’s atmosphere, while also producing useful everyday products.

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In the first year of the two-year Manufacturing Engineering Tripos (MET) course, teams of three or four students complete a major design project to develop a new product with real business potential.

Three students studying for an MPhil in Machine Learning and Machine Intelligence were challenged to create a biologically inspired robot prototype for under $50. The result? A robotic fish with plenty of potential.

Dr Francesca van Tartwijk's research into the causes & symptoms of ALS features on the cover of the Journal of Neuroscience

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Assistant Professor James Taylor and his co-authors Anthony Dickens and Harry Simpson previously of the Whittle Laboratory and Rolls-Royce won the best paper award for their paper "Compressor Tip Leakage Mechanisms" presented at the 2023 Turbo Expo in Boston, USA. 

A student team’s proposal for solar-powered cold storage to address gender inequality and food loss in Ghana’s agriculture sector, has netted them a runner-up position at the grand finale of a worldwide impact investment challenge.

Congratulations to PhD student Chaitanya Joshi who has won a $40,000 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship. He is one of just five winners from across Europe to receive this prestigious award.

The first group of Year 12 students to complete our five-month Women in Computer Science programme have just visited Cambridge for an end-of-course residential.

Professor Ioannis Brilakis has received the International Association for Automation and Robotics in Construction (IAARC) Tucker-Hasegawa Award for contributions to the field of automation and robotics in construction.

We're holding Open Days today and tomorrow - Thursday 4 and Friday 5 July - when we're welcoming prospective undergraduate students to come and look around.

Dr Borodavka and his research group receive six-figure funding boost from prize

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Dr Jossy Sayir has been awarded one of the University’s Pilkington Prizes for excellence in teaching.

Six academic staff promoted at once at CEB.

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Since March 2023, Matthew Juniper has been a commissioner for the Institute for Government’s (IfG) Commission on the Centre of Government. ‘Power with purpose’ is the final report. The report finds that No.10 Downing Street, the Cabinet Office and the Treasury are not equipped to meet the challenges facing the United Kingdom in the 21st century.

Third-year Manufacturing Engineering Tripos (MET) student Kate Lucas has been announced a winner of the Vice-Chancellor’s Social Impact Awards 2024.

Our former colleague Prof John Daugman - a pioneering computer scientist whose iris recognition algorithm helped change the lives of millions of people - died earlier this month.

"Three, Two, One... Activate"

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