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An interdisciplinary approach in Cambridge

ALISON Richard, vice-chancellor, University of Cambridge, is on a 10-day visit to India. This is her first overseas visit in the University's 800^thanniversary year.
Talking about the university's focus areas in academics, Richard mentions the importance of an integrated interdisciplinary approach towards education. With individual academic disciplines becoming more pliant and blurred, she says, an interdisciplinary approach is today relevant at both the postgraduate level as well as for research collaborations. She adds, "We have a whole set of new Master's programmes that involve environmental fields and are highly interdisciplinary. Even at the undergraduate level, students are being increasingly encouraged to explore cognate subjects in different areas that are not directly relevant to their chosen field of study."
The need of the hour, feels Richard, is an interdisciplinary approach because many of the greatest challenges we see around us cannot be addressed seriously by a single individual working in isolation. Be it the global economic meltdown, religious conflicts or the global climate change - all these issues demand a greater participation of people from different fields and different parts of the world. "In due course, we will not only cross disciplinary boundaries but also manage to blur geographical boundaries."
As to the challenges of a post-recession period, Richard says that the university has a good financial discipline in place. "We will be able to tide through this especially because we rely on a diverse set of revenues."
As to the university's fresh initiatives, she informs, "We are in the process of building the largest facility lab that will house the largest concentration of plant scientists in the world. This lab will focus on fundamental research in plant development and diversity. Our next step will be to expand the fundamental research and apply it to real-world issues of agronomy, agriculture and food security. Another of the university's initiative includes the new centre for physics of medicine, where clinical specialists and doctors are working together to bring the fruits of physics to the bedside. "It's again a partnership where fundamental science is being explored in creative ways with direct impact on patients and health care," Richard concludes.

UG SCHOLARSHIPS AT CAMBRIDGE

The University of Cambridge has announced the Manmohan Singh undergraduate scholarship programme for Indian students. The scholarship programme will provide full funding, covering fees and means-tested maintenance, for undergraduate study in any subject at any of the colleges that are part of the University of Cambridge.
Alison Richard, vice-chancellor of the university, unveiled this scholarship programme on January 12 in Delhi. The scholarship fund will be launched with gifts from Sir Evelyn and Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild through the Eranda Foundation and from the Sunil Bharti Mittal-led company Bharti Airtel (through Bharti Foundation). The fund will be underpinned by substantial funding from Cambridge assessment, a department of the university and the parent of Cambridge International Examinations (CIE).
A 1.5 million pounds fund has been set up to support the Indian students; this includes a half million pound endowment in perpetuity. As the programme develops, there are expected to be up to 10 Manmohan Singh undergraduate scholars studying at the university at any one time.
The scholarships programme will complement the three Manmohan Singh Scholarships that were launched for postgraduate students at St John's College, Cambridge, and were announced in Delhi in November 2007. The �35,000 postgraduate scholarship covers all costs, including tuition, maintenance, and cost of living for Indian students to read for PhD and MPhil degrees at St John's College in areas such as science, technology and social sciences.

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