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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 […]
Spider conservation
Michael Pashkevich didn’t like spiders when he was growing up, but at 11pm one night halfway into his undergraduate degree he found himself watching a golden orb weaver spider crawling […]
Award for feminist magazine
A feminist magazine co-edited by Gates Cambridge Scholar Marina Velickovic has won an award from the United Nations Population Fund in Bosnia and Hercegovina. The award from the UNFPA is […]
Reading the Earth through its rocks
When she was a teenager, Marcela Gomez went to a book fair in Bogota with her father and sister. Her father, a chemistry professor, needed to buy some books for his class […]
