Kerem Çitak [2024] comes from a medical family, but he opted instead to go into Materials Science and Bioengineering. At the heart of his work at Cambridge, however, is an emphasis on healing. He arrived there through his interest in materials science and its potential to tackle global challenges. Indeed it is at the intersection of […]
A Gates Cambridge Scholar has co-authored a new book which brings together the research and memories of three generations of Cairo Genizah scholars and celebrates 50 years of progress in the field since the founding of the Cambridge Genizah Research Unit in 1974. Genizah means a hidden storage room and almost one thousand years ago, […]
Avweroswo Akpojaro was not very religious as a child, but it was when he was reading the Bible as a teenager that he had a powerful religious experience and started to study religious texts. He always had questions, however, relating to Christian practice. Although he studied Geology at university and went into teaching, he continued […]
Not so long ago, prevailing work on the macroeconomics of climate change contended that – while set to fiscally devastate low-income countries near the equator – many cooler, wealthier nations will escape the financial fallout and even profit from warmer climes. By 2017, influential studies had fed into an International Monetary Fund global report showing […]