The Trust is pleased to announce the names of the new Gates Cambridge Scholars from the USA who were selected in Annapolis, MD on 6 and 7 February 2009.
Full details are available from the New US Scholars 2009 page.
An article on the new scholars is available from www.admin.cam.ac.uk/news/dp/2009021203.
A Gates Cambridge Scholar has been shortlisted for a Women of the Future Award for her research into countering misinformation. Melisa Basol [2018] was shortlisted for the science category of the UK Awards which recognises “truly remarkable female scientists, forging new ground in research and scientific achievement”. There are 11 other categories and three special […]
Two Gates Cambridge Scholars have joined forces to work on a drug candidate that has the potential to replace one of the most widely used cancer drugs around the world. Dr Anand Jeyasekharan [2004], who did his PhD in Oncology, and Dr Chandler Robinson [2009] who did an MBA at Cambridge, will collaborate on a […]
Growing up in a small town in Bengal, Jigisha Bhattacharya [2022] developed a particular sensitivity to marginalised groups and conflicts between different communities and identities from an early age. It is this interest and her experience of political protests at university, combined with a longstanding curiosity about the links between politics and the arts, that […]
Scholar-Elect Tristan Dot [2022] grew up with an interest in computer science and a passion for art history. As time evolved he began to see the similarities between computer vision and art history and has created his own works of art, using computer-generated images. He says: “Art history is the study of images and so […]
