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Gates Cambridge weddings
The Gates Cambridge community has forged lifelong friendships, business partnerships and even some marriages. Since the Scholarship was launched 25 years ago, there have been a number of Gates Cambridge […]
Scientists identify five ages of the human brain over a lifetime
Neuroscientists at the University of Cambridge, led by Gates Cambridge Scholar Dr Alexa Mousley [2021], have identified five “major epochs” of brain structure over the course of a human life, […]
Towards scalable pro-social AI
Yaroslava [Yara] Kyrychenko began her PhD in Psychology in 2022, just months after Russia invaded her country Ukraine. It aims to understand how social media, and social technology more generally, can […]
Gates Cambridge seeks Academic Director of Community Programmes
An exciting opportunity has arisen to help deliver our vision for the future of the Gates Cambridge Trust and Scholarship. The Trust and Scholarship turned 25 in 2025 and we […]
Exploring linguistic variation in ancient times
Sólveig Hilmarsdóttir [2022] fell in love with Classics and Latin grammar in secondary school. She is now in the final stages of her PhD thesis on Latin sociolinguistics, focusing on […]
