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Thirteen inspirational academics have been honoured for the outstanding quality and approach to their teaching. The 20th annual Pilkington Prizes, which honour excellence in teaching across the collegiate University, were held at Murray Edwards College last night.The prizes are awarded annually to academic staff, with candidates nominated by School…

CSD Staff win Highly Commended Award at the Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2013.A paper by Dr Dick Fenner and Dr Heather Cruickshank has won a Highly Commended Award at the Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2013 (Emerald  Publishing). The paper: "Exploring key sustainable development themes through learning activities"was published in …

University Boat Race 2013: Congratulations to Milan Bruncvik (MPhil Student) who become first Czech to row in race's 159-year history.See Telegraph article 28th March 2013http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/9959411/University-Boat-Race-2013-Milan-Bruncvik-ready-to-become-first-Czech-to-row-in-races-159-year-history.html

Congratulations to our students for their sporting victories! Congratulations to Kyle Maggard (MPhil student) and Shoshanna Saxe (PhD student) for their recent wins in the Varsity Ice Hockey Men's and Women's matches. Kyle was Cambridge "man of the match" and scored 5 of the 8 Cambridge goals. Shoshanna played brilliantly and had very loud support …

Timothy Kotin, an MPhil student in Engineering for Sustainable Development and current Gates Cambridge Scholar was recently featured in a video interview by the Gates Cambridge Trust.In the interview, he speaks about his passion for developing solutions which enable long-term sustainable development and how he is harnessing the power of technology …

On February 18th members of the Centre for Sustainable Development were invited to the Cambridge Trusts Scholar’s Reception. The reception is held each year at the Fitzwilliam Museum. Along with our students, HRH The Prince of Wales attended the reception as patron of the Trusts. PhD student Claudia Mendez Jaime and HRH Prince of Wales (Source: CCT…

For Luca Di Mario [2009], water sanitation is the key. He is doing his PhD at the Centre for Sustainable Development (Engineering Department) and is looking to find sustainable business models for scaling up resource recovery from solid waste and waste water so that it can be used in agriculture in developing countries. That includes assessing the …

A new 3 year project funded by EPSRC was launched at the beginning of this year ( January 2013) to develop fresh strategies for managing urban flood risk as part of wider, integrated urban planning intended to achieve environmental enhancement and urban renewal in which multiple benefits of creating blue-green cities are rigorously evaluated and un…

The Eleventh Annual Lecture series will begin on 30th January 2013 with a talk from Professor Jared Diamond, UCLA titled "Growing older in yesterdays world.These public lectures, organised for the specific benefit of the MPhil students, are designed to attract speakers of international standing and repute to give their views on Sustainable Developm…

The use of science to reduce the effects of future natural hazards such as floods, droughts and earthquakes must be stepped up and adopted more widely according to a newly published Foresight report.Science key to reducing impacts of future natural hazards in developing countries3 December 2012"Science already explains why disasters happen, where m…

Dr. Fenner, a recipient of the George Stephenson Gold Medal, the R.A. Carr Prize and the James Watt Medal, spoke to a packed audience at USF on September 26, 2012 for the Patel School of Global Sustainability’s Distinguished Lecture Series. The title of his talk was Engineering Sustainability: Principles into Practice.http://psgs.usf.edu/news/artic…

Dr. Fenner, a recipient of the George Stephenson Gold Medal, the R.A. Carr Prize and the James Watt Medal, spoke to a packed audience at USF on September 26, 2012 for the Patel School of Global Sustainability’s Distinguished Lecture Series. The title of his talk was Engineering Sustainability: Principles into Practice.http://psgs.usf.edu/news/ar…

Where are they now?2012 saw graduates of the MPhil course in Engineering for Sustainable Development (ESD) come back to the Department of Engineering from all over the world to celebrate the programme's tenth anniversary and catch up on developments.When a fatal earthquake hit the city of Christchurch in New Zealand in February 2011, the most sever…

The MPhil in Engineering for Sustainable Development Dissertation Presentations will be held on 17 – 19 July 2012 in LT0, Engineering Department. Schedule attachedPhoto credit: Cruickshank

Cambridge students announced winners of “McKinsey Innovate” 2012Cambridge, UK, 9th May 2012At the final judging ceremony of the McKinsey Innovate 2012 competition, held yesterday evening at The Commonwealth Club, London, The Ethical Tomato Co. was declared winner. The annual competition, sponsored by global management consultancy firm McKinsey & Co…