Latest News
Crafting new types of food and drink
A Gates Cambridge Alumnus and two partners have opened a craft brewery and foods hub in the US. Ronn Friedlander [2008], who did an MPhil in Clinical Biochemistry, is co-founder […]
Poverty, economics and the importance of thinking local
When Gustavo Nicolas Paez started work at the Colombian Ministry of Health two years ago the first issue he dealt with was pricing health insurance. The insurance system assumed people […]
Families of rhythm
Why do songs like “Good King Wenceslas” Christmas carol and the Beatle’s “Yellow Submarine” sound rhythmically similar? Research just published presents a new approach to understanding rhythm perception, based on […]
Rethinking education
When he was growing up in a village in south Punjab, Arif Naveed was surrounded by a family who believed in the importance of education. He excelled, but as he […]
An interactive future for all
A Gates Cambridge Alumnus has published the first book to address the challenges in developing state-of-the-art interactive technologies for the Indian population. Inclusive Human Machine Interaction for India by Pradipta […]
Three Scholars to speak at NAFA symposium
Three Gates Cambridge Scholars will speak about their research on smart engineering, how to estimate the size of early man and whether mobile and wearable technology can boost health. The […]
Mental health and well being in Asia
As a young student, Sabrina Anjara thought research was a bit detached from real life. She has since proven herself wrong. Her master’s thesis was the first empirical study of […]
SimPrints to pilot in Bangladesh
Gates Cambridge Scholars are teaming up with a mobile health organisation in Bangladesh to pilot a fingerprint identification service which could have implications for global health, microfinance and fighting corruption. […]
Deforestation starves fish
Research led by a Gates Cambridge Scholar shows forest debris that drains into lakes is an important contributor to freshwater food chains – bolstering fish diets to the extent that […]
Out of the margins of history
The history of the transportation of convicts between Mexico and the Philippines is little studied and throws up interesting and often messy details about the nature of colonisation in the […]
