Mental Health Awareness Week: Broad Beans
12 May 2026
To celebrate Mental Health Awareness Week we have talked to one of our members, Dr Nadia Radzman, a researcher at the Sainsbury laboratory, Cambridge, and her work on the health benefits of eating broad beans particularly their positive effects on depression thanks to their chemical composition. “Broad beans could do so...
Could the closure of the Strait of Hormuz encourage a more Sustainable Food System?
2 April 2026
Cambridge Perspectives on Regenerative Agriculture, Green Fertilizer, and Behavioural Food Policy in Light of Supply Chain Disruption.
Ed Turner awarded Pilkington Prize
13 March 2026
Professor Ed Turner, Professor of Insect Ecology and Curator of Insects in the Museum of Zoology, has been awarded a Pilkington Prize by the University, in recognition of his outstanding teaching.
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