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Bill Gates Sr Prize 2024 awarded
An outstanding scholar who has led efforts to strengthen the Gates Cambridge community has won this year’s Bill Gates Sr Prize in recognition of the way he exemplifies the Gates Cambridge values. Stephen Metcalf [2019] has been selected for the prize which was established by the Gates Cambridge Trustees in June 2012 in recognition of […]
Gates Cambridge Class of 2024 announced
The Gates Cambridge Class of 2024 made up of 75 outstanding new scholars has been officially announced. The Gates Cambridge scholarship programme is the University of Cambridge’s flagship international postgraduate scholarship programme. It was established through a US$210 million donation to the University of Cambridge from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in 2000. Since […]
First cohort of 2024 Gates Cambridge Scholars announced
Twenty-six of the most academically outstanding and socially committed US citizens have been selected to be part of the 2024 class of Gates Cambridge Scholars at the University of Cambridge. The US Scholars-elect, who will take up their awards this October, are from a wide range of backgrounds. They come from 20 universities across the […]
Celebrating 50 years of Cairo Genizah research
A Gates Cambridge Scholar has co-authored a new book which brings together the research and memories of three generations of Cairo Genizah scholars and celebrates 50 years of progress in the field since the founding of the Cambridge Genizah Research Unit in 1974. Genizah means a hidden storage room and almost one thousand years ago, […]
The Holy Spirit: its meaning and its potential misuse
Avweroswo Akpojaro was not very religious as a child, but it was when he was reading the Bible as a teenager that he had a powerful religious experience and started to study religious texts. He always had questions, however, relating to Christian practice. Although he studied Geology at university and went into teaching, he continued […]
The cost of ecological disaster
Not so long ago, prevailing work on the macroeconomics of climate change contended that – while set to fiscally devastate low-income countries near the equator – many cooler, wealthier nations will escape the financial fallout and even profit from warmer climes. By 2017, influential studies had fed into an International Monetary Fund global report showing […]
Navigating the politics of sex work
Sharmila Parmanand’s research on sex work was already having an impact beyond academia while she was at Cambridge, but she is now writing a book which she hopes will bring the issues to a wider audience. While at Cambridge, Sharmila [2016] took part in an all-female panel discussion on the future of UK foreign policy […]
Exploring the emotions behind Archaeology
Archaeology is a discipline that excavates the past, piecing together scant and often disparate details to answer questions about how people lived, grew, interacted and died. For Madalyn Grant [2024], this means that Archaeology is a discipline steeped in human emotions. Yet, for a subject so infused with emotion, its practitioners tend not to confront […]
Celebrating the natural world
A new seven-part natural history series will explore the wildlife of our planet’s largest continent, covering the length and breadth of Asia and highlighting dramatic, previously unseen behaviour. Presented by Sir David Attenborough, the series, which is due out shortly, will also feature the work of Gates Cambridge Scholar Alex Vail, researcher-turned-wildlife-cinematographer. Filmed over the […]
Study highlights misperceptions about carbon footprint of richest
The personal carbon footprint of the richest people in society is grossly underestimated, both by the rich themselves and by those on middle and lower incomes, no matter which country they come from, according to a new study co-authored by two Gates Cambridge Scholars. At the same time, the study found that both the rich […]
Book celebrates 50th anniversary of Cambridge’s Genizah Research Unit
This October sees the publication of the first illustrated introduction to the unique collections of Cairo Genizah manuscripts at Cambridge University Library, revealing the forgotten stories of Jewish, Muslim and Christian communities at the centre of a millennium of world history. The coffee table book, co-authored by Gates Cambridge Scholar Nick Posegay [2017] and Melonie Schmierer-Lee, […]
How can we improve healthcare for all?
Three Gates Cambridge Scholars discuss various ways to improve healthcare for all in the final episode of the first series of the So, now what? Podcast. Victor Roy, Johanna Riha and Sabrina Anjara focus on issues such as gender inequities, mental health and access to medicine. They emphasise the importance of investing in women’s health […]
‘We need a global conversation on agriculture and food’
The last few years have seen huge turbulence globally and that has affected every part of our lives, including food and agriculture. In some respects, that turbulence has brought opportunities, says Stella Nordhagen, a Gates Cambridge Scholar who is a Research Lead at the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition. Covid, for instance, disrupted global food […]
Scholar appointed to defence research leadership role
A Gates Cambridge Scholar has been selected as chief of the Research and Engineering Division of the US Army Engineer and Research Development Center’s (ERDC) Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL). Orian Welling’s responsibilities include managing research, development and investigation activities in support of the US Department of Defence, the Department of the Army, […]
The future of warfare
Christopher Kirchhoff [2001] has just co-authored a book which gives an inside look at Unit X, the elite unit within the Pentagon that he and co-author Raj M Shah founded. It brings Silicon Valley’s cutting-edge technology to America’s military. The book Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War, was […]
Olympic opening ceremony harks back to tradition of ‘liquid streets’
The opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympic Games today will see athletes from around the world cross the centre of Paris on boats, navigating the waters of the river Seine, using it and its banks as life-size stages. Although the ceremony is being billed as innovative, it is in fact part of a centuries-old tradition […]
Why AI needs to be inclusive
When Hannah Claus [2024] studied computer science at school she soon realised that she was in a room full of white boys, looking at posters of white men. “I could not see myself in that,” she says. “I realised there were no role models to follow and that I had to become that myself. There […]
How can we create a more tolerant world?
Three Gates Cambridge scholars debate how we can create a more tolerant world in the sixth episode* of the podcast So, now what?, launched today. Alina Utrata, José Izquierdo and Farhan Samanani explore the importance of face-to-face interactions, trust and cooperation in building tolerance. They also examine the role of technology and social media in […]
Building Indigenous people’s citizenship rights: the role of heritage
Oscar Espinoza Martin [2024] sees archaeology and cultural heritage as tools for strengthening Indigenous people’s sense of citizenship. “It is important how people feel about their past and how they navigate from there to the present,” he says. As an Indigenous person growing up in Lima with an early interest in history and philosophy, he […]
Inside Unit X
A Gates Cambridge Scholar has co-authored a book which gives an inside look at Unit X, the elite unit within the Pentagon that brings Silicon Valley’s cutting-edge technology to America’s military. Christopher Kirchhoff is co-author with Raj M Shah of Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War, published […]
Towards better public service delivery in Pakistan
Rafi Kakar [2024] is keen to contribute to better public service delivery and development outcomes in Pakistan by employing a research approach that blends theory with the realities of public policymaking. He believes that the devolution of social sectors to the provinces in 2010 has created both challenges and opportunities for governance reforms and improvements […]
Using virtual reality in the service of stroke recovery
Brielle Stark [2012] is pioneering new ways of approaching the language problems faced by stroke patients. She was recently awarded a Fulbright Scholar Award to conduct research in Australia, starting in Spring 2025. She will be moving to Australia to work with her long-time colleague Dr Lucy Bryant at the University of Technology Sydney on […]
Rethinking feminist approaches to gender-based violence
Ilaria Michelis [2019] was completely surprised when, earlier this year, she was awarded this year’s Journal of Gender Studies Janet Blackman Prize. The Prize celebrates scholarship on international feminist movements and trade unions/women in work. It was awarded for an article she published the year before in the Journal of Gender Studies based on an issue […]
Scholars scoop three social impact awards
Three Gates Cambridge Scholars have been recognised with awards from the Vice Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. The 15 Social Impact Awards in six categories were launched for the first time by Cambridge Hub in 2018-19, to celebrate students who have shown exceptional achievement in, and commitment to, creating positive social change. Since then, […]
Report highlights fatal health risk of climate change in Europe
Climate change is here, in Europe, and it kills. This is the warning of 69 contributors of the 2024 Europe report of the Lancet Countdown, published today in the Lancet Public Health and led by Gates Cambridge Scholar Kim Van Daalen [2018]. Tracking the links between climate change and health across the region, the new […]
Celebrating a new home for Gates Cambridge
The Gates Cambridge family celebrated the opening of the new Bill Gates Sr. House last week. Former Provosts, Vice-Chancellors, trustees, staff and Gates Cambridge Scholars from across the years as well as representatives from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation gathered to inaugurate the new state-of-the-art building which brings together scholars and staff for the […]
A new home for Gates Cambridge
The Gates Cambridge Trust is officially opening Bill Gates Sr. House, a multi-million-pound, state-of-the-art, sustainable building in central Cambridge, at an event today [3rd May] which includes an oral history film of the University of Cambridge’s prestigious scholarship programme. The building is a tribute to Bill Gates Sr.’s seminal role in establishing the Gates Cambridge […]
From digital accessibility to space flight
Pradipta Biswas was very short-sighted as a young child and that meant his ability to travel around or play outdoors was heavily restricted. That early experience, he says, “created a force in me to overcome barriers for myself and others so that physical impairments shouldn’t stop people from achieving their dreams”. It has driven his […]
21st century curator
Even while he was doing his PhD in art history, Julien Domercq was not only getting involved in the British art scene, he was curating one of the biggest art exhibitions of the day. Julien [2013] had taken up a two-year entry-level contract at the National Gallery a couple of years into his PhD on […]
Gates Cambridge seeks Interim Director
About us The Gates Cambridge mission is to build a global network of future leaders committed to improving the lives of others. We achieve this mission by selecting outstanding scholars from countries outside the UK and providing them with full-cost scholarships to pursue postgraduate degrees in any subject available at the University of Cambridge. Gates […]
Gates Cambridge Annual Lecture to focus on ways out of permacrisis
This year’s Gates Cambridge Lecture will include a Nobel Laureate, a President of a Cambridge college and, for the first time, a Gates Cambridge Scholar. The Lecture, A global turning point: how to escape the permacrisis, will be given on 22nd April [5-7.30pm] at St John’s College and will feature Nobel Laureate and economist Michael […]
Gates Cambridge at the Cambridge Festival
Gates Cambridge Scholars will be speaking at the Cambridge Festival next month on a range of topics, from climate change social entrepreneurs to local currencies and AI. The Cambridge Festival runs from 13th to 28th March and is teeming with hundreds of events, most of them free, which celebrate the rich research being done at the […]
Celebrating science in Pune
Why do we forget most of our memories from infancy? How can psychedelics help rats decide better? What happens when worms are high on cannabis? These were some of the questions I was asked at the India Science Festival (ISF), organised by the Foundation for Advancing Science and Technology, India. The festival was held at […]
Gates Cambridge seeks Programme Assistant
About us Gates Cambridge Scholarships are prestigious, highly competitive, full-cost scholarships awarded to outstanding applicants from countries outside the UK to pursue a full-time postgraduate degree in any subject available at the University of Cambridge. Gates Cambridge Scholars become part of a lifelong global community defined by its core value of commitment to improving the […]
Gates Cambridge Trust seeks Global Engagement Officer
About us Gates Cambridge Scholarships are prestigious, highly competitive, full-cost scholarships awarded to outstanding applicants from countries outside the UK to pursue a full-time postgraduate degree in any subject available at the University of Cambridge. Gates Cambridge Scholars become part of a lifelong global community defined by its core value of commitment to improving the […]
Telling the story of climate science
How do you tell the story of climate science and why does it matter? These are questions that Sarah Dry [2003] is grappling with. In her work on the history of science, biography has always been key. Through it she is trying to show the connections between the personal lives of scientists and the work […]
Aiming for the Moon
Kayla Barron has been a pioneer throughout her working life. One of the first class of women commissioned into the US Navy’s submarine community, she is now a graduate of NASA’s astronaut training programme and could become one of the first women to set foot on the Moon. In December Kayla [2010] finished her training […]
Gates Scholars win entrepreneurial prizes
Gates Scholars and Alumni have won prizes for their entrepreneurial ideas. Julia Fan Li, Apoorva Bhandari, Eva-Maria Hempe, Andrew Lynch and Rongjun Chen were involved in four of the 20 successful submissions that won the Cambridge Entrepreneurs prize. The £100 cash prizes were awarded for the best summaries of a business idea in not more […]
