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Webinar for US applicants takes place next week
Gates alumni and the Gates Cambridge Trust will be holding a webinar in September for US applicants on how to apply for a scholarship. The US Application webinar will be […]
Under the microscope
When Guilhem Chalancon was seven he wanted to be a neurosurgeon. He was interested in the biology of the brain and waded his way through heavy medical texts. “I learnt […]
Wellbeing and where you live
While Annalijn Conklin was growing up, she saw her mother and her best childhood girlfriend suffer from a number of progressive chronic illnesses. During childhood, Annalijn’s mother was in and […]
Webinar on career development scheduled for October
Three Gates alumni are organising a webinar on career development, continuing research and networking. The webinar, the second in a series of talks for scholars on career development, is expected […]
Hi-tech cluster workers ‘make reluctant social networkers’
Innovation and high-tech “clusters” inspired by the success of Silicon Valley in the United States are, ironically, struggling to get much social networking out of the scientists who inhabit them, […]
Gates Scholar – Elect makes local headlines
Mukhta Natrajan was described as “promising scholar” when she joined the Center of Undergraduate Research Opportunities program at the University of Georgia, a quality that must have stuck with her, […]
Rwandan Entreprise Week a big success
One hundred and fifty Rwandan students attended the first Rwandan Enterprise Week last week. The Week is an initiative of a group of Cambridge students, including Gates scholar Julia Fan Li [2008]. The […]
Blood and books
Anne Leone‘s PhD is about the significance of blood in the work of Dante so it is ironic that her involvement in a vampire film society is completely unconnected with […]
Alumna gives presentation at Singapore scholarship fair
A representative from the Gates Cambridge Alumni Association gave a presentation to around 200 prospective students at a scholarship fair in Singapore earlier this month. Ivy Chia [2004], Director of […]
Max Gwiazda
For someone who did his PhD in medieval monastic architecture, studying something as contemporary as the politics of a city like Jerusalem may seem a large leap, but for Max […]
