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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 […]
Artificial Intelligence applications in critical care
A Gates Cambridge Scholar will be presenting on his research findings at the BrainX Community Live event this week. Shubhayu Bhattacharyay [2021] will be speaking about Artificial Intelligence applications in […]
Bridging the public health data gap
When Anwesha Lahiri [2021] was doing her master’s fieldwork in India, she visited a tribal village in a remote area on top of a mountain between two districts. Only around […]
Tracing the origins of our political beliefs
What makes some people more vulnerable to extremism than others? How do we build cognitive resilience against extreme ideologies? And how does the brain react to misinformation on social media? […]
A leading woman in STEAM
A Gates Cambridge Scholar has been selected as one of the 75 leading women in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics in India. Yama Dixit will feature in the second edition of […]
Tackling the obesity epidemic in Africa
When she left school, Paula-Peace James-Okoro [2022] intended to become a medical doctor, but after starting a degree in Biochemistry she discovered a passion for the subject and for using […]
Triple win for Bill Gates Sr. Prize
For the first time three Gates Cambridge Scholars are sharing this year’s Bill Gates Sr. Prize in recognition of their outstanding research and social leadership. Kim van Daalen, Reetika Subramanian […]
Gates Cambridge Annual Report published
The Gates Cambridge Trust’s Annual Report 2021 is now available. It includes a summary of the Trust’s work during the year and the impact of our scholars and alumni in […]
Scholar one of 28 to win Carnegie Fellowship
A Gates Cambridge Scholar has been named as one of the 2022 Class of Andrew Carnegie Fellows. Jonathan Corpus Ong, Associate Professor of Global Digital Media at the University of […]
