In 2013, Tara Cookson had just returned from fieldwork in the Peruvian Andes where she had been studying conditional cash transfer programmes. She had identified various problems with the programmes […]
The human endeavour is driven by dreams, for to dream is to exist boundlessly in ways both triumphant and terrible. So fundamental are dreams that, from first breath, we are […]
“There was a sense of urgency and optimism,” recalls Andy Robertson [2001] talking about how the Gates Cambridge Alumni Association first began to take shape. While the seeds of the […]
Gates Cambridge Scholar Ilana Walder-Biesanz is one of five recipients of a $5 million Bezos Courage & Civility Award for her work to encourage outstanding budding mathematicians to reach their […]