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News stories archive - 2021

News stories archive - 2021

IfM win award for COVID-19 response at Cambridge Independent Science and Technology Awards

17 May 2021

The IfM’s response to the COVID-19 crisis has been named the winner of the special COVID-19 Response Award at the Cambridge Independent Science and Technology Awards.

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Kelp, maggots and mycoprotein among future foods that must be mass-farmed to combat malnutrition

14 May 2021

Radical changes to the food system are needed to safeguard our food supply and combat malnutrition in the face of climate change, environmental degradation and epidemics, says new report.

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Cricket bats should be made from bamboo not willow, Cambridge researchers argue

12 May 2021

Bamboo cricket bats are stronger, offer a better ‘sweet spot’ and deliver more energy to the ball than those made from traditional willow, tests showed.

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Alumnus and Echion CEO, Jean de La Verpilliere

Department battery tech spinout Echion continues to scale

10 May 2021

Department spinout Echion Technologies supply high-power Li-ion battery anode materials that enable superfast charging for a range of applications

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Gates Cambridge class of 2021 – Emma Houiellebecq

06 May 2021

Emma Houiellebecq is the recipient of not one – but two – Gates Cambridge Scholarships. As she prepares for a PhD in Engineering this October, we chatted with Emma to find out more about her.

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New inkjet printing method could accelerate drug discovery and printed personalised drug delivery

04 May 2021

Our engineers have demonstrated – for the first time – the digital inkjet printing and self-organisation of microdroplets on fluid surfaces to create structures of functional materials. 

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Department spin-out company PervasID wins a Queen's Award for Enterprise: Innovation 2021

29 Apr 2021

PervasID develop battery-free Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) reader systems for automating inventory and asset tracking.

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Funding secured for disruptive technologies to boost understanding of brain health and disorders

26 Apr 2021

Cambridge researchers have won investment from the European Commission to gain a more complete understanding of brain health and disorders – and train the next generation of brain scientists.

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High-filtration masks only work when they fit – so we created a new way to test if they do

21 Apr 2021

In this article from The Conversation, Eugenia O'Kelly, PhD student and a member of the Healthcare Design Group, discusses her recent research into high-filtration masks.

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“Hey Cyba: The Inner Workings of a Virtual Personal Assistant” a new book by Steve Young

21 Apr 2021

"Hey Cyba" explains the neural network technology underlying speech recognition and synthesis, natural language understanding, knowledge representation and conversation management.

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