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Professor's Perfect Pie

Nov 29 2017

A recipe shared with us by one of our alumni reveals a Nobel Laureate's favourite Christmas treat.

Department welcomes prospective postgraduates

Courtesy Department of Chemistry Photography

Nov 2 2017

Around 100 potential postgraduate students attended the department’s Graduate Students Admissions day in October.

Three-year collaboration to predict Black Swans in medicine

A 'black swan' is the toxic effect of a compound which could have been predicted in hindsight

Oct 23 2017

The first project of the Cambridge Alliance on Medicines Safety will be a three-year collaboration to predict the safety of current and future medicines.

Nobel Laureate awarded our Alumni Medal

Image of Alumni Medal courtesy Department of Chemistry Photography

Oct 23 2017

Sir John Sulston – who worked on the sequencing of the very first animal genome and went on to lead the UK research in the Human Genome Project – was awarded the Department of Chemistry Alumni Medal in October 2017.

Petals produce a ‘blue halo’ that helps bees to find flowers

The base of the petals of daisy Ursinia speciosa contains a dark pigment but appears blue due to the presence of disordered striations on the cell surface. Image: Fred Lewsey, University of Cambridge

Oct 19 2017

An interdisciplinary group of researchers which includes the department's Dr Silvia Vignolini, has found that 'messy' microscopic structures on the petals of some flowers manipulate light to produce a blue colour effect that is easily seen by bees.

Lindemann Trust Fellowships now open

Courtesy ESU

Oct 18 2017

The English-Speaking Union is offering up to three grants a year for postdoctoral scientists to carry out research in the USA.

New lecturer receives prestigious award

Courtesy: School of Earth and Environment, The University of Leeds

Oct 11 2017

Dr Anja Schmidt has been awarded the Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists of the European Geosciences Union (EGU).

Helping Caribbean students pursue their ambitions

PhD student Jerelle Joseph in the gym at Churchill College (photo: Nick Saffell)

Oct 10 2017

Jerelle Joseph wasn’t sure she wanted to leave Dominica to take a PhD in Computational Chemistry in chilly Cambridge. Now she runs a mentoring scheme to encourage others from the Caribbean to pursue their ambitions.

Nobel Laureate gives 2017 Herchel Smith Lecture

Image of Professor Cech with students courtesy of the Department of Chemistry

Oct 9 2017

Nobel Laureate Professor Tom Cech came to the Department of Chemistry on 16th October, to give the 2017 Herchel Smith Lecture: 'Shedding some Light on the Dark Matter of the Genomic Universe.'

2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to Richard Henderson

Courtesy MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology

Oct 5 2017

The department would like to congratulate Dr Richard Henderson of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, for being awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly with Jacques Dubochet and Joachim Frank.

Professor's Perfect Pie

Department welcomes prospective postgraduates

Three-year collaboration to predict Black Swans in medicine

Nobel Laureate awarded our Alumni Medal

Petals produce a ‘blue halo’ that helps bees to find flowers

Lindemann Trust Fellowships now open

New lecturer receives prestigious award

Helping Caribbean students pursue their ambitions

Nobel Laureate gives 2017 Herchel Smith Lecture

2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to Richard Henderson

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