Articles for 2012
Our articles for 2012 are shown below.
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Cambridge graduate named Rising Star New Engineer of the Year
Engineering graduate quick to make mark with first product being “highly commended” by the judges in the Power Products category.
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Science key to reducing impacts of future natural hazards in developing countries
The use of science to reduce the effects of future natural hazards such as floods, droughts and earthquakes must be stepped up and adopted more widely, according to a newly published Foresight report.
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Photonic Systems Centre invites UK industry to collaborate with universities
Greater collaboration between universities and industry in the area of photonics research is the goal of an Industry Day to be held on 14 January at the University Computer Laboratory.
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Cambridge student entrepreneurs win national business plan competition
A team of aspiring biotechnology entrepreneurs from the University of Cambridge has won the Biotechnology Young Entrepreneurs Scheme (YES) 2012.
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Funding the next big low-carbon idea
Shell UK has launched a search to find the next big low carbon business innovation.
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Cambridge SEIS Fund makes its first investments
The University of Cambridge Enterprise Fund has made its first investments in three companies: Cambridge CMOS Sensors, Inotec AMD and DefiniGEN.
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£60 million boost for science innovation
Cambridge has received new funding as part of a £60m investment in UK universities to help encourage the development of new industrial collaborations, products and companies based on University research.
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Fast-tracking dementia diagnosis
The amount of time it takes to diagnose dementia could be reduced from the current 18 months to just three months, thanks in part to technology originally developed at the University of Cambridge.
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Cambridge software improves quality of sound for hearing aid users
A new software product developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge could greatly improve sound perception for users of hearing aids.
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Sensors for the real world
Over the last decade there has been an increased interest in developing resonators for gravitmetric sensing; however, the sensors’ response to variations in temperature has prevented them from being used outside the laboratory. New sensors developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge negate the effects of temperature so that they may be used in industries including health care, telecommunications and environmental monitoring.