The CUSU Teaching Excellence Award (TEA) celebrates excellent teaching and student engagement and is a pioneer project of its kind here at Cambridge. There is no other student-led initiative at Cambridge where students are invited to highlight outstanding qualities that make a lecture, supervision, or the educational...

This year, to celebrate its 50th anniversary , the European Molecular Biology Association (EMBO) has extended the range of subjects that it covers by electing 50 new members in the areas of Ecology and Evolution, and Neuroscience. This is in addition to the normal election of new members nominated by the current membership...

Sarah Luke, a PhD student in the Insect Ecology Group has two recent successes: winning the Merian award for best student talk at the Annual Conference for the Society of Tropical Ecology (held in Freising, Germany, last month), and second prize in the Royal Entomological Society student essay competition . Congratulations...

PhD student Gerit Linneweber (from the Gut Signalling and Metabolism Lab), won third prize in the Graduate School of Life Sciences Image Competition on 13th March 2014, for his confocal microscopy image of a Drosophila larval spiracle. The spiracles are the entry point of oxygen into the organism and must, similar to the...