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Tag: Cambridge University
COVID-19
As U.S. Schools Face Difficult Choice, Cambridge U Goes Fully Online Until Summer 2021
While U.S. institutions debate whether to open campus for in-person instruction, remain fully online or adopt a hybrid of the two this coming fall, across the pond, Cambridge University has announced all of its lectures will be online-only until summer 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, reported the BBC. “Given that it is likely that […]
May 20, 2020
News Roundup
Stephen Hawking, Best-Known Physicist of His Time, Has Died
LONDON — Stephen Hawking, whose brilliant mind ranged across time and space though his body was paralyzed by disease, has died. He was 76. Hawking died at his home in Cambridge, England, according to a statement by the University of Cambridge. The best-known theoretical physicist of his time, Hawking wrote so lucidly of the mysteries […]
March 14, 2018
STEM
Stephen Hawking’s Ph.D. Thesis Goes Online, Website Crashes
LONDON — Cambridge University has put Stephen Hawking’s doctoral thesis online, triggering such interest that it crashed the university’s website. Completed in 1966 when the renowned physicist and author was 24, “Properties of Expanding Universes” explores ideas about the origins of the universe that have resonated through the scientist’s career. The university says the thesis […]
October 23, 2017
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