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New research reveals that over half of Antarctic meltwater is slush.

As ice shelves warm, slush's heat absorption leads to more melting, risking ice shelf collapse and sea level rise. 🌍🧊

Read more 👇 https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/antarctic-slush

Antarctic ice shelves hold twice as much meltwater as previously thought Slush – water-soaked snow – makes up more than half of all meltwater on the Antarctic ice shelves during the height of summer, yet is poorly accounted for in regional climate models.

Congratulations graduates!

Commemorate your academic achievements with the official 2024 Yearbook, available online! This digital edition captures the essence of your university experience, from academic triumphs to extracurricular adventures.

Access your yearbook and reconnect with fellow alumni here 🤝 👇

Graduation Yearbook 2024 Cambridge Alumni, celebrate your achievement and relive graduation memories with your online Yearbook. While one chapter is ending, another is beginning, and Cambridge will be with you every step of the way.

❌ Plastic (not so) fantastic. It's Plastic Free July, once seen as a bedrock technology of the modern age, the detrimental relationship humanity has with plastics has become all too clear. Microplastics and nanoplastics have been discovered in every ecosystem on earth, with potentially devastating consequences.

In the search to replace the most polluting variant of plastics, Professor Tuomas Knowles of the Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry at Cambridge, turned to spiders for inspiration... 🕷️ 🕸️

https://www.enterprise.cam.ac.uk/case-studies/xampla-pioneering-a-plastic-free-future/

Xampla: Pioneering a plastic-free future – Cambridge Enterprise Exploring Professor Tuomas Knowles & his team's replacement for pollutant single-use plastics, plus Xampla's vision for a plastic-free future.

📖 In case you missed it, in our latest alumni story, read about alumna Dr Alice Amegah (Christ’s 2019) and her passion for making education, particularly in science and technology, a possibility for all...

🔗 https://www.alumni.cam.ac.uk/story/transforming-the-landscape-of-stem-in-africa-dr-alice-amegah

After 4 days of graduation celebrations last week, here's a timely reminder of just some of the benefits you get as 👏

Make sure you update your details and stay in touch 👇 https://www.alumni.cam.ac.uk/update-your-details?utm_source=Graduations-UoCSocials

🎉 Graduation celebrations!

Want to add more momentous memories of your time at Cambridge to the Yearbook but missed the calls? Send in your photos from last week and songs for the playlist. Keep the good times rolling 💃 🕺

https://www.alumni.cam.ac.uk/graduation-yearbook-2024?utm_source=Graduations-UoCSocials

Graduation Yearbook 2024 Cambridge Alumni, celebrate your achievement and relive graduation memories with your online Yearbook. While one chapter is ending, another is beginning, and Cambridge will be with you every step of the way.

It's been amazing to see so many brilliant students celebrating their achievements in the sun this week 🌞 😎

Today we welcome students from Gonville and Caius College, Trinity Hall, Corpus Christi College, Queens’ College, St Catharine’s College, Jesus College and Christ’s College to Team 🙌

☎️ Make sure you update your details and stay in touch with your Cambridge network!

https://www.alumni.cam.ac.uk/update-your-details?utm_source=Graduations-UoCSocials

🙌 It's day 1 of our graduation celebrations 🎉

Today we're welcoming students from King’s College, Trinity College, St John’s College, Peterhouse, Clare College and Pembroke College to team !

Don't forget to:

📷 Share your graduation pictures in the group
📖 Browse your Graduation Yearbook now ⬇️

Graduation Yearbook 2024 Cambridge Alumni, celebrate your achievement and relive graduation memories with your online Yearbook. While one chapter is ending, another is beginning, and Cambridge will be with you every step of the way.

📣 2 days to go until we start welcoming 3,500 more graduates to our community!

📸 Look out for updates and pictures from the celebrations and wish them congrats in the comments ⬇️

📖 At 9 years old, Alice was told that her learning prospects wouldn’t extend far beyond primary school — and yet her academic journey took her from Ghana to and back again! 🌍 This is the story of how her determination became a passion for making education, particularly in science and technology, a possibility for all...

🔗 https://www.alumni.cam.ac.uk/story/transforming-the-landscape-of-stem-in-africa-dr-alice-amegah

🎓 In our latest alumni story, read about Christ's College, Cambridge alumna Dr Alice Amegah, who graduated from the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge with a PhD in Education and International Development. Alice is the founder of Education And Aspirations, an NGO providing education and career guidance in Ghana and across Africa. https://educationandaspirations.org/

University of Cambridge

📷 :
1: Alice observing pupils at a STEM Awareness Day
2: Alice with family and friends at her PhD graduation
3: Alice at the World Bank UK
4: Alice and her mum at her Cambridge graduation

🌐 From ground-breaking research to successful spin-outs, is Europe’s “unicorn” capital 🦄 and a hub of innovation. In this article, Vice-Chancellor Professor Deborah Prentice highlights the University’s role as a driver of economic growth, innovation, and productivity.

https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/vice-chancellor-on-how-cambridge-can-drive-uk-economic-growth

🌟 To call alumnus Dr Lewis Owens (Queens' College, Cambridge 1996) a veteran volunteer is an understatement. He's been weaving together the threads of meaningful service since his days, working part-time as a carer to fund his PhD.

🎙️ We caught up with Lewis ahead of his charity walk from Addenbrooke’s to the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (via all 31 Colleges!) to raise funds for the unit — just the latest in his volunteering narrative...

🔗 Read his story: https://www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/story/inspirations-behind-dr-lewis-owens-passion-for-service



1. Dr Lewis Owens in office.
2. Lewis pushing the trolley around Hillingdon Hospital.
3. Lewis running the Royal Parks Half Marathon in aid of Prisoners’ Education Trust.

📣 The 2024 programme is now live! From stargazing 🤩 at the Institute of Astronomy, to delving into the science of anti-obesity medications 💊 with Professor Giles Yeo, which session are you most interested in attending?

🎟️ Bookings open 10 July

https://www.alumni.cam.ac.uk/festival/events?src=social

🎙️ Meet Umaima Ahmad, former corporate lawyer and alumna, now co-founder and CEO of medtech startup, 52North. Her company has created Neutrocheck®, a small, easy-to-use device and app that allows patients undergoing chemotherapy to test their own blood on the move if they feel unwell, potentially reducing the number of hospital visits.

🗨️ It allows patients to test themselves anywhere and then give their doctor the results over the phone. The doctor can then assess if you're at risk or not.

🔗 Read the full story: https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/caring-for-cancer-patients

📰 In case you missed it, achievers have been recognised in the King's Birthday Honours 2024, which recognises the achievements and service of people across the UK, from all walks of life. 🎖️

See the list: https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/cambridge-achievers-recognised-in-kings-birthday-honours-2024

Happy 🥪 Tell us, where's your favourite place in and around Cambridge for a picnic? Can you beat a picnic in a punt at Grantchester Meadows? 🤔

Morning ☀️ Here's some lovely photos of this year's May Bumps by Mike Thornton with thanks to Trinity Hall, Cambridge 😎

📸 Photos:
1. The three miniature cannons that start the race
2. Three boats chasing each other up the River Cam, with spectators lining the towpath. In the distance, you can just see a boat that's pulled over. (Help us out here – who are the boats in this pic?)
3. One of the Women's crews Trinity Hall, Cambridge
4. Men's crew from Lady Margaret Boat Club St John's College - credit Giorgio Divitini
5. A boat that successfully bumped another and earned their 'foliage' - credit Giorgio Divitini

This week is , a week of celebration for female entrepreneurs throughout the UK. 💪

Did you know that Cambridge Judge Business School runs the university-level entrepreneurship learning programme, EnterpriseWOMEN, which is designed for women in the early-stages of their entrepreneurial journey.

🔗 Find out more about the programme https://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/entrepreneurship/programmes/enterprisewomen/