A research student from the Department of Engineering was among an elite group chosen to look at ways of ensuring the future of food and water supplies.
The Department's Institute for Manufacturing (IfM) played host to 29 GCSE students from Chelmer Valley High School, Chelmsford as part of an outreach project.
Thanks to an ambitious conservation project and some tiny pieces of plastic, the ancient Egyptian mummy case of Hor is now on display in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.