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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 […]
The future of UK foreign policy
A Gates Cambridge Scholar is taking part in an all-female panel discussion on the future of UK foreign policy at the Palace of Westminster tonight. Sharmila Parmanand is taking part in the Fabian International […]
Inoculating people against fake news
The events of 2016 have prompted a lot of reflection around the role of fake news in the votes in the UK and US, particularly attitudes to and manipulation of […]
