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Celebrating Bill Gates Sr.
Gates Cambridge celebrated the past, present and future of the scholarship programme this weekend at an event to mark what would have been Bill Gates Sr.’s 100th birthday. The event […]
Leading with courage in turbulent times
History is plastic and leaders have more agency today than they may have tomorrow so it is vital that they use it courageously to build a better future, the co-founder […]
Gates Cambridge weddings
The Gates Cambridge community has forged lifelong friendships, business partnerships and even some marriages. Since the Scholarship was launched 25 years ago, there have been a number of Gates Cambridge […]
Scientists identify five ages of the human brain over a lifetime
Neuroscientists at the University of Cambridge, led by Gates Cambridge Scholar Dr Alexa Mousley [2021], have identified five “major epochs” of brain structure over the course of a human life, […]
Towards scalable pro-social AI
Yaroslava [Yara] Kyrychenko began her PhD in Psychology in 2022, just months after Russia invaded her country Ukraine. It aims to understand how social media, and social technology more generally, can […]
