2017-07-05

Cambridge University (videos of June 2017)

source: Cambridge University
6:15 The Vice-Chancellor discusses Brexit As Brexit negotiations begin, the University of Cambridge's Vice-Chancellor, Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, discusses the University's priorities in any future Brexit deal.
4:37 Dr Lisa Jardine-Wright - Department of Physics Cambridge University has produced a series of films about five of this year’s Pilkington Prize winners. These films go behind the scenes to show Cambridge teaching in action as well as inviting win...
3:33 Return of the Titan Cambridge University Botanic Garden was delighted that one of our Titan Arums flowered in June 2017. After an impressively smelly opening, Titus (as it was christened by the public) was pollinated ...
2:19 India Unboxed: Meet the meteorites? Our #IndiaUnboxed series continues with the puzzling story of the fiery meteorites which were cold to the touch.
157 years ago the people of Dharamsala in Northwest India watched as three meteori...   2:29 Fantastic voyage of the nanobots Nanomachines small enough to move around our bloodstream have long been a dream of scientists and public alike. But working out how to make them move has meant they’ve remained in the realm of scie...
4:39 Dr Martin Ruehl - Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages Cambridge University has produced a series of films about five of this year’s Pilkington Prize winners. These films go behind the scenes to show Cambridge teaching in action as well as inviting win...
1:44 May Bumps 2017 The May Bumps are an annual competition between collegiate boat clubs, taking place in June (of course) on the River Cam. The Cam is too narrow to race side-by-side, so the rowing crews chase one a...
2:11 Patching up a broken heart It is almost impossible for an injured heart to fully mend itself. Within minutes of being deprived of oxygen – as happens during a heart attack when arteries to the heart are blocked – the heart’s...
27:43 How Liszt's Lost Opera was Rescued This documentary tells the story of how a team of Cambridge University researchers and singers worked to rescue the first act of Liszt's opera from a manuscript that was assumed to be fragmentary a...
3:31 Cambridgeshire Time Credits – an overview of the public health outcomes Dr Gemma Burgess, of Cambridge Centre for Housing and Planning Research, explains how the evaluation of public health outcomes for the Cambridgeshire Time Credits Scheme in Wisbech looked at how th...
2:49 Cambridgeshire Time Credits - the benefits of volunteering As a Time Credits partner, Orchards C of E Primary School played a key role as a case study in the Cambridge Centre for Housing and Planning Research's recent evaluation of the public health outcom...
3:09 Cambridgeshire Time Credits - a volunteer's story Recent research carried out by the Cambridge Centre for Housing and Planning Research evaluated the public health outcomes of the Cambridgeshire Time Credits scheme in Wisbech. This short, animated...
3:51 India Unboxed: The Perfection of Wisdom Over the course of six centuries Cambridge University Library’s collection has grown from a few dozen volumes on a handful of subjects into an extraordinary accumulation of several million books, m...
3:28 Student Finance (Updated 2017) Student Finance for Home undergraduate students (Updated 2017). There have been a number of changes to financial arrangements for UK/EU students. Cambridge is not only cost-effective while you are ...

No comments: