Professor Robert Lethbridge, who will succeed Dr Gordon Johnson as Provost of the Gates Cambridge Trust from 1 October 2010, has been profiled in the Times Higher Education Supplement.
Professor Lethbridge, currently Master of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, is confident that the Gates programme will produce future world leaders and plans to raise the overseas profile of the programme even further.
Godspower Major is keen to improve his knowledge of how to boost biodiversity in oil palm plantations. He thinks the grounds are ripe for expansion in West Africa and he wants to ensure that, if that happens, African farmers do not repeat some of the mistakes made in Asia where biodiversity has been negatively impacted […]
What legal protections exist to protect women from having their fertility and period-tracking data used against them to suggest they have had an abortion or used contraception? After the overturning of Roe v. Wade in the US the prospect of that data being used against women in court could be a reality for many women, […]
Uchechukwu Ogechukwu [Uche for short] is a man on a mission. As an undergraduate he did a project on reducing waste at his father’s factory and found that most of it was caused by energy supply issues. While at the University, he co-founded a solar energy company with four other friends and has gained major […]
It’s an age-old question: Why don’t people cooperate even when it is in their best interest to do so? It’s also an urgent question as we face huge global challenges mired in conflict and polarisation. A new paper in The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology offers fresh psychological insights into this question through the lens […]
