Alumni Festival 2018: Recent Episodes
Cambridge University
Join Chris Sandbrook and Masters in Conservation Leadership alumni to explore the challenges facing our world, and discuss how best we can protect our planet.
Find out how Cambridge vets are addressing the health problems suffered by flat-faced dog breeds using a unique test
Join Tuomas Knowles, Professor of Physical Chemistry and Biophysics, to hear how Cambridge is working to understand the molecular mechanisms underlying dementia, the greatest threat to modern healthcare, and how to counteract them.
Professor Roberto Maiolino explores our current understanding of the early phases of galaxy formation in the primeval Universe and the processes that have transformed galaxies across the cosmic epochs.
Join Dr Emily Shuckburgh to find out what the latest science tells us about the scale and urgency of the climate change threat.
Join Eric Miska, Herchel Smith Professor of Molecular Genetics, to hear about the magic molecule RNA.
Join Dr Giles Yeo to explore our genetic differences and how our different responses to the environment affect obesity.
Join Professor Paul Linden to hear about the ‘Managing Air for Green Inner Cities’ (MAGIC) project.
Join Professor Ed Bullmore as he reveals breakthrough new science on the link between depression and inflammation of the body and brain.
Explore how the use of flexible moulds might change our approach to using concrete, the second most used substance on earth after water, with Dr John Orr.
Dr Tanya Filer asks if governments really can embrace digital and emerging technologies.
Uncover the relationship between flowering plants and the animals that pollinate them with Professor Beverley Glover
Understand how synthetic biology is being used to design a pathway from gene to diagnostic in the diagnosis of infectious disease.
Discover how dendrochronology, the dating of tree-rings, is identifying and shifting research frontiers and cross disciplinary boundaries.
Professor Rae Langton argues that a living democracy needs and deserves better than post-truth.
Dr Vincent Mak, from Cambridge Judge Business School, introduces nudge, the art and science of influencing behaviour through subtle changes in the environment.
Join Professor Catherine Barnard to consider the current state of play with Brexit and the outlook for the future.
Nicholas Hytner wonders why high art shouldn’t be popular and why entertainment shouldn’t be high art.
What makes a city viable and sustainable, and what drives the development of future cities?