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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 […]
Using AI to improve social housing for the most vulnerable
Cambridge researchers, including Gates Cambridge Scholars Adhib Hussain Syed [2025] and Ramit Debnath [2018], are developing an artificial intelligence tool that could tell UK councils which social housing tenants are […]
Gates Cambridge interviewer dies
Gates Cambridge is greatly saddened to learn of the death of Professor Paul Hewett who was a shortlister and interviewer for Gates Cambridge on the Physical Sciences panel for over […]
War draws borders. Life quietly erases them.
Last month in Mumbai, something unusual happened. Restaurants quietly put up signs: “Vada and dosa not available due to LPG [liquified petroleum gas] issues.” Street vendors adjusted their menus, replacing […]
