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NEWS ABOUT: Cambridge University

Cambridge University stories: 11 news summaries

Asia, UK Challenge US Supremacy in Higher Ed

US still has more universities in THE's top 200 than any other country—for now

Oct 9, 09 6:36 PM CDT
(Newser) - The United States is home to more top-level universities than any other country in the world, this year’s survey by Times Higher Education confirms, but its advantage may not last forever. Although 54 of the top 200 schools are in the US, Asia is making remarkable progress: Japan has... More »

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China • Japan • United Kingdom • Seoul • United States • Oxford • college • university • Cambridge University • Seoul National University • Harvard University

 Scientists 
 Locate Brain's 
 Sentimental Center 

Same Spot as Sex Urges

May 20, 09 4:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - It turns out sex and sentimentality are linked after all, reports Reuters. Scientists have pinpointed areas of the brain that determine an individual's warm and fuzzy feelings—which they say are the same regions that control sex and some food urges. Researchers hope the findings may help explain brain evolution... More »

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autism • schizophrenia • brain • neuroscience • personality • Cambridge University

Egg From Darwin Voyage Comes to Light

Naturalist signed—and cracked—relic from Beagle excursion

Apr 10, 09 9:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - The only egg known to have survived from Charles Darwin's round-the-world voyage on the Beagle has surfaced in Cambridge University's zoology museum, the BBC reports. A volunteer sorting through the museum's vast egg collection found the egg—from an ostrich-like bird in Uruguay—and realized it bore the naturalist's signature.... More »

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museum • Charles Darwin • egg • Cambridge University • HMS Beagle

 UK Protester 
 Lobs Shoe 
 at China's Wen 

Protester calls premier a 'dictator' during speech at Cambridge

Feb 2, 09 1:35 PM CST
(Newser) - A protester threw a shoe at China’s premier while he was giving a speech at Cambridge University in England today, the BBC reports. The young man shouted “how can the university prostrate itself with this dictator—how can you listen to the lies he’s telling?" before hurling... More »

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China • shoes • protests • Cambridge • dictatorship • Wen Jiabao • Britain • Cambridge University

(Newser) - Vikings were just as interested in preening and handicrafts as they were in war and pillaging, the Telegraph reports. In a bid to educate youngsters who could well have Viking ancestry, British researchers are trying to change the popular view of the Norse explorers. "It seems that the... More »

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fashion • archaeology • Vikings • Britain • Cambridge University • burial site • Norse

(Newser) - Stephen Hawking will retire from his chair at Cambridge University at the end of this academic year, the Telegraph reports. But the esteemed physicist will continue working at the college in an emeritus position. Cambridge requires profs to step down when they reach 67, and Hawking’s birthday is in... More »

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Stephen Hawking • retirement • black hole • astrophysics • Cambridge University • Isaac Newton

 Pinched Oxford Wants $2.5B 

Needs cash to compete with Ivy League

May 29, 08 7:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - Prestigious Oxford University is pleading poverty and has begun a campaign to raise funds to make it competitive with Harvard, Yale, and Princeton for academic talent, reports the Christian Science Monitor. The university—actually a collection of individual colleges—aims to raise $2.5 billion, but even that is chump... More »

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Oxford University • donor • Harvard • Cambridge University • Princeton • endowment • Yale • Buckingham University • Higher Education Funding Council • alumni

 Cambridge
 Poetry
 Students
 Analyze This 

Notorious partier-songwriter's lyrics compared to 16th Century poem

May 27, 08 2:49 PM CDT
(Newser) - Stodgy? Never! Cambridge University surprised its English students with an exam requesting literary analysis of Amy Winehouse lyrics last week. Students compared a poem by 16th century poet and ne’er-do-well adventurer Sir Walter Raleigh with Winehouse’s “Love is a Losing Game,” and songs by Bob Dylan... More »

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poetry • Amy Winehouse • English literature • Cambridge University • Sir Walter Raleigh

 Humane Hunters
 Hound Foxy Humans 

'Drag-hunt' runners are hounds' new prey

Apr 16, 08 11:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - England banned fox hunting with hounds three years ago—but riding clubs unwilling to give up centuries of tradition or the thrill of the chase are recruiting human prey, ABC News reports. The runners drag along a dead animal—road kill—to leave a trail for the hounds, and are... More »

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England • animal rights • hunting • Cambridge University • dog

UK Students Choosing Ivies Over Oxbridge

Financial aid, academic freedom lure record number of Brits

Dec 24, 07 8:15 AM CST
(Newser) - A record number of British students are forsaking Oxford and Cambridge to apply to elite American schools, the Times of London reports. Lured by more generous financial aid packages and less restrictive curricula, students are crossing the pond to the Ivy League. Yale's applications from Britain, for one, have tripled... More »

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Ivy League • college admissions • Oxford University • Cambridge University

Stressed Out at 7 Years Old

Kids fret about global warming, terrorism and friendships

Oct 12, 07 2:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - Children as young as 7 years old are stressed out about issues such as global warming, violent crime and international terrorism, as well as personal problems, according to a new study in Britain. The research, based on 700 in-depth interviews with children aged 7 to 11, found that kids live... More »

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terrorism • global warming • UNICEF • children • Community Soundings • Cambridge University • Howard League for Penal Reform • Robin Alexander • Wolfson College, Cambridge • violent crime

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