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Two Scholars win Awards for Research Impact and Engagement
Two Gates Cambridge Scholars were recently awarded the Impact Award at the Climate and Nature Research Showcase by the University of Cambridge and Cambridge Zero. Kamiar Mohaddes and Mayumi Sato […]
The Gates Cambridge conversation: New ways of disseminating research
Simone Eringfeld and Catherine Tan are from the same Gates Cambridge cohort – 2022 – and share a passion for communicating knowledge in new ways. Both describe themselves as neurodivergent […]
Exchange highlights need for interdisciplinary learning
Gates Cambridge, Rhodes, Clarendon and Marshall scholars gathered at Newnham College in Cambridge on Friday for the UK Global Scholars’ Exchange. The event, which brought together around 125 scholars, was […]
10 Scholars attend Gates Foundation’s Grand Challenges event
Ten Gates Cambridge Scholars were selected to attend a full day of the Gates Foundation’s Grand Challenges Annual Meeting last week. The event, which has run annually for over two […]
In search of radical democracy
Jihad Hami’s PhD will explore self-determination beyond the framework of the nation state with reference to the Kurds, the Kurdish movement and its philosophy. He is interested in new alternatives […]
