Department of Engineering

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Cambridge alumna joins NASA’s 2017 Astronaut Candidate Class

12 Jun 2017

Gates Cambridge Scholar Kayla Barron, who achieved a Master's degree in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Cambridge, has been selected as a NASA Astronaut Candidate.

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Unilever Young Entrepreneurs Awards 2017 now open for entries

08 Jun 2017

Celebrating young sustainability innovators

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Materials for Life grow from strength to strength

07 Jun 2017

Cambridge collaborative research into the development of self-healing cement-based materials for infrastructure has received a £4.85million funding boost from the EPSRC.

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Cambridge professor joins campaign to clamp down on plastic pollution

06 Jun 2017

A video-selfie campaign calling on supermarkets to introduce a plastic free aisle in their shops has won the backing of a Cambridge professor.

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Alumna Niri Arambepola needs your votes

05 Jun 2017

Engineering alumna Niri Arambepola (Newnham College, 2011) has been shortlisted for WeAreTheCity’s top 100 Rising Star Awards 2017.

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Factories that forage

01 Jun 2017

Professor Steve Evans will talk about sustainable industrial initiatives such as factories that create new products from waste at this year's Hay Festival.

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Robots and carbon targets may signal the end of globalisation

31 May 2017

New book suggests there is early evidence of a coming U-turn in the globalisation of manufacturing – and that the story we are told about the direction of the global economy is wrong.

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Lecturer’s research leads to Fellowships and prestigious leadership role

30 May 2017

A Department lecturer has been elected a Fellow of both the IEEE and the OSA in recognition of his research in the field of optical fibre communication.

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Melting ice in the Arctic

Refreezing the Arctic

25 May 2017

Dr Hugh Hunt will say geoengineering may be necessary to tackle climate change and refreeze the Arctic in a talk for the Cambridge Series at the Hay Festival.

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Cambridge graphene-related research on show at Mobile World Congress 2017

24 May 2017

The Cambridge Graphene Centre presented industrial-focused research from the Graphene Flagship alongside fellow experts in the field.

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