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Gates Scholars’ Alumni Association: Virtual Coffeehouse – Breaking into Politics
This teleconference discusses the challenges, strategies and rewards of youth engagement in politics. Specific topics include: running for office; developing a platform; pursuing fundraising and support; utilizing information technologies; life […]
Gates Cambridge Scholars’ Distinguished Lecture: Professor Joshua Silver gives lecture on adaptive eye technology in the developing world
Professor Joshua Silver gives his Gates Scholars Distinguished Lecture entitled ‘How we do we really bring vision corrective to those that need it in the developing world?’. The lecture was […]
Gates Scholars’ Distinguished Lecture: Film director and writer, Rupert Isaacson, talks about his film ‘The Horse Boy’
Film director and writer, Rupert Isaacson, speaks about his experience filming The Horse Boy at a Gates Scholars’ Distinguished Lecture held on 14 January 2010 .
Gates Scholars’ Distinguished Lecture: Barack Obama’s New Media Director talks digital media in politics and beyond
Barack Obama’s New Media Director discusses the lessons learned from the US presidential campaign at a distinguished lecture in Cambridge.
New Gates Scholars selected for 2010
The full cohort of Gates Scholars for 2010 has now been selected, following the second round of interviews in Cambridge last week. See here for information about the selection process, […]
Gates Scholar interviewed on Naked Scientist radio show
Gates Scholar Niraj Lal (2008) was recently interviewed on the Naked Scientist radio show. The award winning BBC weekly radio programme reaches a potential audience of 6 million listeners across […]
Gates Cambridge Scholar Profile – Siza Mtimbiri
A four minute profile of Siza Mtimbiri, a current Gates Scholar from Zimbabwe undertaking a PhD in Education at St Edmunds’ College. Siza is working on the nexus between education […]
Gates Cambridge Scholar Profile – Rajiv Chowdury
A four minute profile of Rajiv Chowdury, a current Gates Scholar from Bangladesh undertaking a PhD in Public Health.
Gates Cambridge Scholar Profile – Rachel Pike
A four minute profile of Gates Scholar Rachel who works in the Centre for Atmospheric Science studying the effects of large scale biofuel production on atmospheric chemistry. Rachel hopes to […]
Bill and Melinda Gates meet with Gates Cambridge Scholars
A 12 minute film from June 2009 when Bill and Melinda Gates came to Cambridge to meet with Gates Cambridge Scholars.
