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Creating centres of excellence
Maria Pawlowska has spent the last three years setting up a network of research excellence centres in Poland as coordinator of the International Research Agendas (IRAP) programme at the Foundation for […]
A personal commitment to grassroots activism
Carlos Adolfo Gonzalez Sierra has recently accepted a new job as Associate Director of ACLAMO Family Centres, a non-profit organisation which provides educational programmes and access to social and health services to […]
Scholar publishes bestselling cybercrime thriller
A Gates Cambridge Scholar has published a bestselling book on cybercrime in Poland. Jakub Szamalek’s new book, Cokolwiek Wybierzesz [Whatever you choose], was published in January and is already on […]
An interview with Yeo Bee Yin
Yeo Bee Yin [2009] did her master’s in chemical engineering as a Gates Cambridge Scholar. She is now Minister of Energy, Science, Technology, Environment and Climate Change in Malaysia where she has helped to set […]
From foster care and astronomy to cowboying
Three Gates Cambridge Scholars will tell personal stories ranging from a year spent at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, cowboying and life in foster care at an event on Wednesday. The Scholar […]
Irina Bokova to deliver Gates Cambridge Annual Lecture
This year’s Gates Cambridge Annual Lecture will be given next month by Irina Bokova, the first female Director-General of UNESCO on the subject of protecting our cultural heritage. The Annual Lecture will […]
Alternative put forward for Planet Nine hypothesis
The strange orbits of some objects in the farthest reaches of our solar system, hypothesised by some astronomers to be shaped by an unknown ninth planet, can instead be explained […]
Sight saving from a grassroots to a global level
When Tom Johnson was a medical student, he built a community organisation that provides free vision screenings and guaranteed follow-up medical and surgical care to people with little or no […]
Taking on the World Marathon Challenge
Greg Nance [2011] did his first ultra marathon on the Jurassic coast in December 2011 while he was a Gates Cambridge Scholar at the University of Cambridge. He has always been […]
Investigating mobile elements in the mammalian genome
A Gates Cambridge Scholar has been awarded a prestigious fellowship at the University of Cambridge to carry out research into the role of mobile elements in the mammalian genome that can cause genetic […]
