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West Cambridge Business Centre The Cavendish Laboratory from across the lake in winter. West Cambridge is a university site to the west of Cambridge city centre in England.As part of the West Cambridge Master Plan, several of the University of Cambridge's departments have relocated to the West Cambridge site from the centre of town due to overcrowding.
The Fawcett building (1938) was named in recognition of her contribution to the college, and that of her family. She died in Hendon [14] on 10 June 1948, two months after her 80th birthday, a month after the Grace that allowed women to be awarded the Cambridge BA degree received royal assent (see women's education at the University of Cambridge ...
Constance Tipper (born Constance Fligg Elam; 16 February 1894 – 14 December 1995) was an English metallurgist and crystallographer. [1] [2] She investigated brittle fracture and the ductile-brittle transition of metals used in the construction of warships, and was the first female full-time faculty member at Cambridge University Department of Engineering.
This is a partial list of 20th-century women artists, sorted alphabetically by decade of birth.These artists are known for creating artworks that are primarily visual in nature, in traditional media such as painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, ceramics as well as in more recently developed genres, such as installation art, performance art, conceptual art, digital art and video art.
She was a leading mid-19th-century feminist and women's rights activist. [2] [3] She published her influential Brief Summary of the Laws of England concerning Women in 1854 and the English Woman's Journal in 1858. Bodichon co-founded Girton College, Cambridge (1869). Her brother was the Arctic explorer Benjamin Leigh Smith.
Newnham College is a women's constituent college of the University of Cambridge. [4] The college was founded in 1871 by a group organising Lectures for Ladies, members of which included philosopher Henry Sidgwick and suffragist campaigner Millicent Garrett Fawcett. It was the second women's college to be founded at Cambridge, following Girton ...
In 2016, Bateman attended a Cambridge University Faculty of Economics meeting naked, as a protest against Brexit. [19] She had the words "Brexit leaves Britain naked" written across her torso. [ 20 ] On 14 January 2019, Bateman delivered an hour-long lecture against Brexit at the Cambridge Junction while naked, [ 21 ] then asked the audience to ...
Between 1976 and 1986, she was a fellow of Newnham College and a lecturer in chemistry at Trinity College of the University of Cambridge. [6] [7] From 1984 to 1991, she was a director of the Fitzwilliam Museum Trust in Cambridge. She was a non-executive director of Mid Anglia Radio plc between 1988 and 1995. [8]