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Tackling misinformation about climate change
Gates Cambridge Scholar Ramit Debnath has been awarded an inaugural Cambridge Zero Fellowship to improve public understanding of climate change. Ramit [2018], a computational social scientist who did his PhD […]
New model can predict brain injury recovery more accurately
The families of patients with traumatic brain injury typically get little information about the recovery possibilities for their loved one aside from whether they will live or die. However, a […]
Addressing food insecurity through plant science
Anoop Tripathi [2022] is one of the few people in the world who have experience of using a newly developed technique of cereal grafting and hybridisation which could help save […]
Taking a critical approach to precision oncology
Precision medicine offers huge possibilities for patients with cancer, but we risk in some cases falling for hype and spin if we do not take a critical approach and ask […]
‘Glaring’ lack of diversity identified in journal editorial teams
Only a third of editors on journal editorial teams in environmental sciences and public health are women and less than a quarter are affiliated to institutions in low- and middle- […]
Exploring at the intersection of humanities and technology
Alex Mentzel has lived many careers and he’s still only in the first part of his life. Brought up in a musical family, he worked as an actor in film, […]
Gates Cambridge announces new Provost
The Gates Cambridge Trust is delighted to announce that its new Provost – its first female leader – will be Professor Eilís Ferran. Professor Ferran has a wealth of experience […]
Scholar selected as member of Junge Akademie
A Gates Cambridge Scholar has been admitted to Germany’s prestigious Die Junge Akademie. Andrea Binder is one of 10 new members to be admitted to the academy. It provides interdisciplinary and socially […]
Cairo Genizah texts ‘could illuminate the history of late Ottoman Egypt’
The Cairo Genizah – a repository of hundreds of thousands of manuscripts that the Jewish residents of Old Cairo produced and consumed in the pre-modern period – also contains hundreds […]
What accounts for humans’ higher cognitive skills?
New research shows how the human brain processes information in ways that support higher cognitive functions than animals. The study, on which Gates Cambridge Scholar Andrea Luppi [2019] is first […]
