Cambridge academics make female power list

Two leading Cambridge academics have been acknowledged in the Sunday Telegraph's 100 Most Powerful Women in Britain list. Athene Donald, Professor of Experimental Physics, and Mary Beard, Professor of Classics, were two of only nine women listed in the Academia section. Professor Lisa Jardine, an Honorary Fellow of King's and Jesus colleges, was also profiled. Professor Donald, the University's gender and equality champion, and Director of the Women in Science, Engineering and Technology Initiative, was made a Dame in this year's Queen's Birthday Honours for services to Physics. She is also a Fellow of the Royal Society. Her current research lies at the interface of Physics and Biology, working on problems associated with protein aggregation and cellular biophysics. Her entry in the list reads: "Her research into the way molecules and cells function has implications for sufferers of Alzheimer's disease and the development of hip replacements and prosthetic limbs.