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A major gift from Cambridge alumnus and philanthropist Peter Bennett has enabled the launch of a groundbreaking new institute at the University of Cambridge dedicated to researching solutions to some of the greatest challenges facing society in the 21st century.The Bennett Institute for Public Policy has been founded to address the new patterns of …

 My childhood was a bit unusual. My mother was a teacher and my father was a career diplomat. Although I was born in my home country of Ghana, we lived for a while in the former Yugoslavia, where I was the only African in my kindergarten class. We also spent four years in Egypt.In Ghana, I went to boarding school. The Achimota Primary and Secondary…

 Frontiers of Engineering for Development is a series of interdisciplinary symposia that facilitates national and international collaboration to tackle global development challenges. The event brings together a select group of around 60 emerging UK and global engineering leaders from industry and academia to discuss pioneering technical work and cu…

A new journal to showcase Africa’s often-overlooked scientific research has been launched to give the continent’s scientists better global recognition.Scientific African will be the first “mega-journal” in Africa. It was unveiled in Kigali last week at Africa’s biggest science conference, the Next Einstein Forum(NEF) conference, and the first issue…

In the last five years, the Ebola, Zika and yellow fever outbreaks – as well as the critical challenge presented by antimicrobial resistance – have provided continued impetus for research to understand the drivers of emerging or re-emerging infections.The ESEI projects reflect a diversity of interdisciplinary activities. They study a range of patho…

Dr Dora Pereira delivered a Nutrition training workshop hosted by the MRC Unit The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Basse field site, and supported by the Cambridge-Africa Alborada Research Fund, a collaborative program between the University of Cambridge and African partners. The workshop targeted the Basse field stati…

Forecasting rapid growth in cyber-crime and the misuse of drones during the next decade – as well as an unprecedented rise in the use of ‘bots’ to manipulate everything from elections to the news agenda and social media – the report is a clarion call for governments and corporations worldwide to address the clear and present danger inherent in the …

Researchers from Germany’s Max Planck Society (MPS) met with University of Cambridge counterparts on Tuesday 6 March for the formal launch of the Max Planck Cambridge Centre for Ethics, Economy and Social Change.The launch event, held at Cambridge’s Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, was attended by Professor Martin Stratmann, President of the…

 About the researchDr David Cantor's PhD research looked at the risks and challenges faced by internally displaced persons in Colombia, a country where currently seven million people are displaced due to armed conflict. Although Colombian law gives internally displaced people the right to return, Cantor found that most people that return go to acti…

In 2009, four UK research councils led by the MRC conceived and jointly supported the Environmental and Social Ecology of Human Infectious Diseases Initiative – or ESEI.By 2012, three large interdisciplinary teams were awarded funding for studies that explore key drivers of change in three zoonotic diseases in three continents. The studies range fr…

The adoption of modern methods and new technologies in agriculture that propelled India to self-sufficiency in grain production in the second half of the 20th century is known as the country’s “Green Revolution”. It allowed India to overcome poor agricultural productivity, especially in regions like the Punjab and Uttar Pradesh, although it relied …

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Scientists at the University of Glasgow’s MRC Centre for Virus Researchopens in new window (CVR) have found a bacterial strain which blocks dengue and Zika virus transmission from mosquitoes.In a new study, published in PLOS Pathogensopens in new window, the scientists show that a novel strain of the inherited bacteria, called Wolbachia, strongly b…

 Jo Johnson, the Universities Minister, has issued a commission to provide more information about university achievements in serving the economy and society for the public, businesses and communities. On these pages, we will set out our approach and provide further information on the KEF metrics work as it evolves.An initial call to submit evidence…

 Delivered by world-leading industrial design company frog, the Workshop on User-Centred Design in Developing World Contexts raised awareness about the HCD methodology as an approach to innovation that helps fill the gap between the theoretical conception of an innovation, its implementation in real life and ultimately its impact on the society.Ado…