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From space exploration to food security: Gates Cambridge at the Cambridge Festival
Over a dozen Gates Cambridge scholars will showcase their research at this year’s Cambridge Festival. The Festival, which runs from 17th March to 2nd April, is one of the largest festivals of its kind in the country, featuring over 360 mostly free events, and showcases cutting edge research across the University of Cambridge and beyond. Gates […]
The journey to space and back
Kayla Barron never imagined that she would be an astronaut when she was a Gates Cambridge Scholar back in 2010/11. But through being open-minded and taking ‘one decision at a time’, inspired by a desire to find where she could contribute and challenge herself the most, she made it into space. Just back from a […]
Gates Cambridge Scholars celebrate International Women’s Day
Two Gates Cambridge Scholars will be speaking on gender equality issues at this year’s Cambridge Festival in April. Professor Jennifer Piscopo, Director of the Center for Research and Scholarship at Occidental College in Los Angeles, California, will be speaking on a panel on Women and power after Covid with Mary Ann Sieghart, author of The Authority […]
Blast off for scholar as she heads into space
Gates Cambridge Alumna Kayla Barron is among four astronauts who will lifted off on 10th November on a journey towards the International Space Station for a six-month science mission. The four astronauts blasted off on the SpaceX Crew Dragon and will dock to the space station. This is the third crew rotation mission with astronauts […]
The Scholar 2021 goes live
The 2021 edition of The Scholar, the Gates Cambridge magazine, is now out and celebrates the scholarship’s 20th anniversary with many of the articles focused on the theme of memory. For the first time the magazine, which is edited and written by Scholars and Alumni, has gone entirely online. Fang Liu [2020], editor of The […]
First spaceflight for Gates Cambridge Scholar
Gates Cambridge Scholar Kayla Barron will make her first spaceflight later this year after NASA announced that it has assigned her to serve as a mission specialist for the agency’s SpaceX Crew-3 mission to the International Space Station. The mission is due to launch on October 23rd. Kayla became a NASA astronaut in January 2020 […]
The Scholar 2020 now out
The 2020 edition of The Scholar magazine is out with articles on everything from the need to reframe climate change action to early cancer detection and confronting everyday racism. The Scholar is written and edited by Gates Cambridge Scholars and Alumni. This year’s editing team are Editor in Chief Reetika Subramanian [2019], Assistant Editor Grant […]
Aiming for the Moon
Kayla Barron has been a pioneer throughout her working life. One of the first class of women commissioned into the US Navy’s submarine community, she is now a graduate of NASA’s astronaut training programme and could become one of the first women to set foot on the Moon. In December Kayla [2010] finished her training […]
Scholar selected as NASA astronaut candidate
Gates Cambridge Scholar Kayla Barron has been selected by NASA to join the 2017 Astronaut Candidate Class and will report for duty in August 2017. Kayla [2010], who did an MPhil in Nuclear Engineering at the University of Cambridge after doing her undergraduate training at the US Naval Academy, worked as a Submarine Warfare Officer […]
