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Gates Cambridge Scholarships

Gates Cambridge is an international scholarship programme at the University of Cambridge for outstanding postgraduate students who share a potential for social leadership and a desire to improve the lives of others. At its heart are our values of Community, Learning, Internationality, Compassion and Change.

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Scholar to command NASA space mission

Gates Cambridge Scholar Kayla Barron [2010] will serve as spacecraft commander of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-14 mission to the International Space Station which will launch no earlier than spring 2027. The […]

Aerial maps reveal successful woodland expansion in Scotland

A University of Cambridge team, co-led by Gates Cambridge Scholar Aland Chan, has used aerial surveys across a huge swathe of the Cairngorms National Park in Scotland to create detailed […]

Gates Cambridge Originals: Martin Kaonga

Martin Kaonga [2001] has two PhDs, one in Carbon Biogeochemistry at the University of Cambridge and the other in Christian Apologetics at NTS Indiana which explored the interactions between science […]

Gates Cambridge Originals: Riikka Hofmann

Education always matters, says Riikka Hofmann, Professor of the Learning Sciences at the University of Cambridge. “And because it matters so much it is always a contested area. But I […]