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Another successful food bank collection!

16 July 2019 Staff and students have once again been generous with their donations, as they were at Christmas, and we have filled 4 large boxes with items from Cambridge...

22 June 2026

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Neville Greaves 1945-2019

11 June 2019 With the death of Neville Greaves earlier this month, the research community focused on glasses and disordered materials has lost one of its most cherished members.  For...

22 June 2026

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Dr Xavier Moya and collaborators identify green material for refrigeration

23 April 2019 The work of Dr Xavier Moya has been featured on the University of Cambridge Research News pages.  His work with collaborators in the UK and Spain has...

22 June 2026

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Rob Somekh 1947-2019

28 March 2019 Following a PhD in low temperature physics, Rob Somekh began work in the department in 1972, joining the then Superconductivity Group as a post doc. under Jan...

22 June 2026

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Professor Serena Best CBE receives a Suffrage Science Award

11 March 2019 Congratulations to Professor Serena Best CBE who received a Suffrage Science Award (Engineering and Physical Sciences) last Friday. The Suffrage Science scheme celebrates women in science for their...

22 June 2026

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Professor Oliver’s #MyScienceInquiry Select Committee pitch to be taken forward

28 February 2019 The Commons Science and Technology Select Committee have decided to take forward Professor Rachel Oliver’s #MyScienceInquiry proposal looking into the “Impact of science funding policy on equality, diversity, inclusion and...

22 June 2026

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Dr Robert Hoye included in Forbes ’30 Under 30′ list

12 February 2019 Dr Robert Hoye has been announced as one of Forbes’ 2019’s 30 Under 30 rising talent in Science and Healthcare in Europe, recognising his research on semiconductors and...

22 June 2026

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Professor Oliver speaks at the Commons Science and Technology Select Committee

07 February 2019 Professor Rachel Oliver spoke to the UK’s Parliament’s Commons Select Committee about diversity in science last week, particularly in relation to the need for an inquiry into...

22 June 2026

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Professor Serena Best CBE becomes IOM3 President

04 January 2019 We start the New Year with the news that Professor Serena Best has been welcomed by the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3) as their new...

22 June 2026

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Supporting the local Food Bank

06 December 2018 Staff and students at the Department of Materials Science have been generously donating festive foods and other trimmings recently and have been able to prepare 9 Christmas hampers to...

22 June 2026