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  • Sense of control and meaning helps protect women from anxiety, study suggests April 23, 2018
    The study, published today in BMJ Open, found that women who had these traits did not have anxiety, even if they were living in the most deprived circumstances, but women who did not feel that they were in control of their lives and who lacked purpose and meaning in life had high levels of anxiety […]
  • Mechanism behind neuron death in motor neurone disease and frontotemporal dementia discovered April 20, 2018
    Writing in Cell, the researchers from the University of Cambridge and University of Toronto also identify potential therapeutic targets for these currently incurable diseases. ALS is a progressive and terminal disease that damages the function of nerves and muscle, affecting up to 5,000 adults in the UK at any one time. Frontotemporal dementia is a form […]
  • New innovation hub aims to take a 'moon shot' at cystic fibrosis April 18, 2018
    John Winn’s office at Microsoft Research looks like that of any typical academic: on one wall is a whiteboard graffitied with impenetrable equations and mathematical scribblings, on the opposite wall books and files line shelves, and on his desk are photos of his family. His desk, however, is somewhat different: it can rise or fall, […]
  • Environmental report highlights Cambridge’s progress towards sustainability goals April 18, 2018
    In the foreword to the report, Vice-Chancellor Professor Stephen Toope writes: “The University of Cambridge leads the world in many fields of academic endeavour, including making essential contributions to the global journey toward a more sustainable future. In the course of carrying out our research, we should not lose sight of the fact that how […]
  • ‘Cognitive flexibility’ associated with voting attitudes in EU Referendum, study finds April 16, 2018
    A new study suggests that the way our brains process everyday information helps to shape our ideological beliefs and political decision-making – including attitudes towards the UK’s 2016 EU Referendum. Scientists from the University of Cambridge combined objective cognitive tests with questionnaires designed to gauge social and political attitudes in a sample of over 300 […]
  • Some superconductors can also carry currents of ‘spin’ April 16, 2018
    Spin is a particle’s intrinsic angular momentum, and is normally carried in non-superconducting, non-magnetic materials by individual electrons. Spin can be ‘up’ or ‘down’, and for any given material, there is a maximum length that spin can be carried. In a conventional superconductor electrons with opposite spins are paired together so that a flow of […]
  • New Cambridge institute to tackle policy challenges in our age of disruption April 15, 2018
    A major gift from Cambridge alumnus and philanthropist Peter Bennett has enabled the launch of a groundbreaking new institute at the University of Cambridge dedicated to researching solutions to some of the greatest challenges facing society in the 21st century. The Bennett Institute for Public Policy has been founded to address the new patterns of […]
  • Drinking more than five pints a week could shorten your life, study finds April 13, 2018
    The authors say their findings challenge the widely held belief that moderate drinking is beneficial to cardiovascular health, and support the UK’s recently lowered guidelines. The study compared the health and drinking habits of over 600,000 people in 19 countries worldwide and controlled for age, smoking, history of diabetes, level of education and occupation. The […]
  • “Little robots”: behind the scenes at an academy school April 11, 2018
    ‘Structure liberates’: the ethos behind one of England’s flagship academy schools. Designed as an engine of social mobility, this school drills ‘urban children’ for the grades and behaviour considered a passport to the world of middle-class salaries and sensibilities. The headline-grabbing exam results of this school have led politicians to champion its approach as a […]
  • Cambridge and four other universities form agritech partnership April 10, 2018
    The Ceres Agritech Knowledge Exchange Partnership links the universities of Cambridge, East Anglia, Hertfordshire, Lincoln and Reading, as well as the John Innes Centre, NIAB and Rothamsted Research, to enable effective sharing of commercialisation expertise, a key aim of Research England’s Connecting Capability Fund, which has awarded the partnership £4.78 million in funding. Ceres will […]

Actualización – Lanzamiento de la Cambridge Alumni México A.C.

October 13, 2013, Categories  Eventos Comments No comments

Hola a todos,

El evento de lanzamiento se llevará a cabo el día 22 de octubre, en el Club Piso 51, Torre Mayor, Av. Paseo de la Reforma 505.  Estamos citando a las 7:00 p.m. para llevar a cabo el registro (les pediremos que nos proporcionen los siguientes datos: nombre, domicilio, car...
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Cambridge Mexico Alumni A.C. – An invitation to Join

October 11, 2013, Categories  Noticias Comments No comments

The Cambridge Alumni Mexican group is becoming a registered charity (AC)...

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Fwd: Reminder – Oxford invites you to “Gabriela Mistral: Chile & Mexico”

August 21, 2013, Categories  Eventos Comments No comments

Hi all,

An invitation from our friends from Oxford follows…

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Francisco Perez-Martinez
Hello everyone,
Hope all are doing well. We have a new event ready for you and your fellow alumni...
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San Diego Event

August 19, 2013, Categories  Eventos Comments No comments

Dear all,

Our friends at the San Diego (California) Alumni Group are inviting us to the event described in the attached PDF.  This marks the first collaboration with the groups in the border area between the US and Mexico.  If you can attend, please confirm directly to them.
I would like to take...
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Comité

July 30, 2013, Categories  Comité

El comité de nuestro grupo de exalumnos fue elegido durante la reunión del 22 de Octubre en una reunión llevada a cabo en el Restaurante Los Girasoles, en la zona de Polaco.  La minuta de dicha reunión y el comité original se encuentran en las siguientes ligas:

Minutes 22Oct2009

Committee 2009...

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