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Coding start-up aims to boost quality of computer education
A computer science education start-up founded by a Gates Cambridge Scholar has raised the funds needed to expand its coding education mission into code review with the aim of helping […]
From undergraduate to biotech boss
Just months after completing his MBA at the University of Cambridge Chandler Robinson started a biotech company and sold a potentially life-saving drug that he worked on as an undergraduate, […]
Children’s stories as objects of power
What role do the stories children hear as they grow have in building a sense of identity? Thandeka Cochrane [2015] says children’s stories are crucial to self-formation. She is interested […]
Transforming supramolecular complexes
Researchers have, for the first time, succeeded in transforming the structure of a supramolecular complex in three different ways, according to a new paper. Gates Cambridge Scholar Derrick Roberts [2012] is co-lead author with […]
Tackling male violence through arts education
Will McInerney disliked the formal education system as a child. “I would much rather have been outside playing basketball,” he says. “I struggled in school for a long time. I […]
An enterprising mind
Andrea Cabrero Vilatela was born into an entrepreneurial family and developed a strong interest in science while at school. In the year and a half since she earned her PhD […]
Dr Silvia Breu (1976 – 2018)
Gates Cambridge is deeply saddened to learn of the death of Dr Silvia Breu. Silvia, who was diagnosed with cancer last year, died peacefully at the Arthur Rank Hospice in […]
Arts activist
“Circumstances made me who I am. Hands held high in a pleading beggars position, Grieving, nonetheless believing that the privilege will someday listen To the pledges of my people, Please […]
Asking the fundamental questions
Vincentius Aji Jatikusumo likes asking questions. At school there was never time for the teacher to answer them all, but as a PhD student he has complete freedom to ask […]
A musical story of survival
A Gates Cambridge Scholar is holding an event in Cambridge to launch her new book on music, emotion and survival in Aleppo. The event for Tala Jarjour’s book Sense and Sadness will be held at […]
