Department of Engineering

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Dr John Cunningham

How do neurons firing in the brain produce movement in the body?

19 Oct 2012

A new study has found that motor neurons encode the world differently from other types of brain cells.

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Dr Michael Purshouse

New President for Engineers' Association

18 Oct 2012

Dr Michael Purshouse has been elected President of Cambridge University Engineers' Association, in succession to Major-General K John Drewienkiewicz.

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Cambridge extends MIT exchange partnership

17 Oct 2012

More undergraduates to study at “both” Cambridges during their degree.

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2012 winning image

Caught on camera: engineering in action

15 Oct 2012

The winning entries of the 2012 Photography Competition at the Department of Engineering.

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Under the microscope

Under the Microscope: Tiny worm pellets

12 Oct 2012

Matthew Kuo tells us how tiny worm faecal pellets affect how oil pipelines sit on the seabed.

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Radiotherapy treatment plan for a head and neck tumour showing colour-shaded dosage areas.

Study to reduce radiotherapy toxicity

08 Oct 2012

A new research programme at the University of Cambridge hopes to improve cancer cure rates by reducing toxicity from radiotherapy.

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Carbon nanotube Fresnel lens

Bright idea: Carbon nanotube Fresnel lenses

04 Oct 2012

Tim Wilkinson and colleagues have created arrays of carbon nanotube Fresnel lenses, each 77 micrometers in diameter and with fifteen zones.

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PhD student Tanya Goldhaber speaks at the TEDx Oxbridge event

01 Oct 2012

Unconventional communication: Why the Internet isn't ruining everything

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Nanotubes used to create smallest ever hologram pixels

27 Sep 2012

A breakthrough in the use of carbon nanotubes as optical projectors has enabled scientists to generate holograms using the smallest ever pixels.

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Luca Di Mario presents his group's findings at the International Water Week

Youthful Vision for a Water and Food Secure World

25 Sep 2012

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.

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