05 March
2026

CPS President Professor John Carr awarded BSPP Honorary Membership

CPS President Professor John Carr awarded BSPP Honorary Membership for exceptional contribution to plant pathology.

15 January
2026

Travel Grant helps PhD student present his work in Hawaii

A CPS Travel Grant helped PhD student John Hancock to present his work at the World Federation of Neuro-Oncology Societies meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii.

01 January
2026

Professor John Carr becomes CPS President

Professor John Carr from the Department of Plant Sciences becomes CPS President.

18 November
2025

Inside AI Partnerships: How Big Tech, Startups & Universities Shape the Future

Register now for Inside AI Partnerships: How Big Tech, Startups & Universities Shape the Future event, Thursday 27 November 14:30 - 16:30.

09 October
2025

Sowing the seeds of science

200 years since the appointment of John Stevens Henslow as the fourth Professor of Botany.

16 September
2025

Event

PdOC Research Showcase 2025

Tickets now available for The PdOC Research Showcase 2025 on 10th November 2025 at West Hub, Cambridge

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Regenerating the British Countryside: From Evidence to Action

09:00 - 17:00 Cambridge University Engineering Department One-Day Meeting Online Lecture Booking Recommended

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Under control? The hidden technology of automatic control past and future

Professor Malcolm Smith FREng FRS

17:30 - 18:30 Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Cambridge Michaelmas Term Booking Recommended

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From Darwin’s paper on evolution to the development of stem cell research, publications from the Society continue to shape the scientific landscape.

Mathematical Proceedings is one of the few high-quality journals publishing original research papers that cover the whole range of pure and applied mathematics, theoretical physics and statistics.

Biological Reviews covers the entire range of the biological sciences, presenting several review articles per issue. Although scholarly and with extensive bibliographies, the articles are aimed at non-specialist biologists as well as researchers in the field.

The Spirit of Inquiry celebrates the 200^th anniversary of the remarkable Cambridge Philosophical Society and brings to life the many remarkable episodes and illustrious figures associated with the Society, including Adam Sedgwick, Mary Somerville, Charles Darwin, and Lawrence Bragg.

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