New Group and LinkedIn
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Dear all,
As a new member of the Networks and Volunteers Working Group, I am
pleased to invite you to join the new Alumni Group Leaders forum on LinkedIn.
I would be very interested sharing best practice and discussing issues
relevant to our networks of Alumni Groups. If you have not already joined
you are very welcome to take part at http://linkd.in/ujs0LQ
I would also like to extend a warm welcome to our new Alumni Group in Bulgaria
and its leader Mr Trayan Trayanov (Darwin 2009)
Hanadi Jabado (Sidney Sussex 1995)
Networks and Volunteers Working Group
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CARO Christmas opening hours
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CARO will close on Friday 23 December and re-open on
Tuesday 2 January.
We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for the work you do
with your Alumni Group and we wish you a very happy Christmas and a
peaceful New Year.
Molly, Jan and Martyn
Networks and Volunteers team
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Memory like a fish
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The traditional belief that fish have short memory spans
may not be as true as we thought. Gates scholar Alex Vail is carrying out
research that reveals how fish remember other sea creatures and even
people.
www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/memory-like-a-fish
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The man with the golden brain
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What’s the point of a brain? A fundamental question that
has led Professor Daniel Wolpert to some remarkable conclusions about how
and why the brain controls and predicts movement. In a recent talk for
TED, Wolpert explores the research that resulted in him receiving the
Golden Brain Award.
Wakefulness and energy expenditure rely on “orexin cells”, which secrete
a stimulant called orexin/hypocretin in the brain. Reduced activity in
these unique cells results in narcolepsy and has been linked to weight
gain.
Click on the following link to see the full video
www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/the-man-with-the-golden-brain
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Did you know?
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We have welcomed nine more Alumni Groups this year from Ireland to Australia
and Kazakhstan to Bulgaria.
The most visited Group webpage page of the year was Cambridge Society of
London. This was closely followed by the Cambridge Society of Surrey and
the German Cambridge Society.
In total the Groups pages have received over 20,000 hits this year and we
hope to improve on this figure in 2012.
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