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Water for life
A Gates Cambridge alumna whose research on groundwater resources in agriculture led to major policy changes benefiting thousands of farmers in West Bengal has been named the first recipient of […]
Video helps to boost teacher effectiveness
The Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) has launched a video featuring a Gates Cambridge alumnus discussing his work on a World Bank project that benchmarks teacher policies around the […]
The origins of globalisation
Most development specialists focus on the 1970s and onwards when they talk about the origins of the current global situation, but Luke Fletcher [2010] believes it is vital to look […]
Alumnus oversees major police operation
A Gates Cambridge Alumnus oversaw the policing of a major political rally in Germany in early August. Dirk-Hinrich Haar [2005] is Superintendent for Germany’s Federal Police and Deputy Chief of […]
How to be a Gates Cambridge Scholar
Do you want to apply for a prestigious Gates Cambridge Scholarship? Then find out all the information you need at a webinar on 6 September. The webinar will be hosted […]
New GCAA directors named
The new Gates Cambridge Alumni Association Board of Directors has been announced. Co-Chairs are Nathan George (USA, 2003) and Mamta Thangaraj (India, 2003). Nathan, the GCAA’s former Membership Director (USA), […]
Why the UK needs a science-based drug policy
Why do some people become addicts and others do not? In the UK about 6% of young people try cocaine. Despite the incredible addictive powers of the drug, only about […]
Listening to women’s history
Indian women’s accounts of the impact of partition have been little heard. Anjali Datta wants to focus not only on how the partition of 1947 affected them, but on the […]
The educational impact of the Arab Spring
What will the wider impact of the Arab Spring be on social policies around the Middle East region? Gates Cambridge Scholar Elect Mona Jebril is interested in looking at the […]
Mutating proteins
Scientists have used bioinformatics approaches to shed new light on the way our bodies produce proteins, which could help design therapeutic strategies for tissue-specific diseases such as cancer. Next-Generation Sequencing […]
