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Benjamin Cocanougher

Benjamin Cocanougher

  • Alumni
  • United States
  • 2016 PhD Zoology
  • St Catharine's College

Previous Education

Centre College

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Scholar wins Early Career Research Award

A Gates Cambridge Scholar has been awarded the prestigious Early Career Research Award for Energy and Metabolism by the Biochemical Society in recognition of his exceptional work as a molecular […]

Global education advocate

Gates Cambridge Scholar Carlos Gonzalez Sierra has been selected as one of 16 members of the youth panel of an international commission on financing global education. Carlos [2015], who is […]

Gates Cambridge Hult Prize success

Two social enterprises involving Gates Cambridge Scholars took part in the prestigious Hult Prize regional rounds this weekend, with SimPrints being chosen to go through to the global finals later […]

Funding international research

Maria Pawlowska is keen to promote international scientific collaborations and her new role coordinating the International Research Agendas programme at the Foundation for Polish Science  means she is in a key position […]

From meningitis to the regeneration of biliary tissue

Three Gates Cambridge Scholars will be speaking about their research on meningitis, links between classical and current debates around sexual trauma and the regeneration of biliary tissue outside the liver […]

Feminism in Hip-Hop

A Gates Cambridge Scholar will be performing a piece about feminism in Hip-Hop at an event International Women’s Day event in Cambridge on Wednesday. Aya Waller-Bey’s performance, entitled Pass the […]

Computers create musical

A Gates Cambridge alumnus has worked on the world’s first computer-generated musical. The musical, Beyond the Fence, opened in London’s West End on 22nd February and runs until 5th March. […]

Scholar shortlisted for BBC New Generation Thinker

A Gates Cambridge Scholar doing a PhD in Medical History has been shortlisted to be a BBC New Generation Thinker 2016. Kathryn Crowcroft has been shortlisted for the scheme, which […]

JustMilk wins Pitch@Palace competition

A Gates Cambridge Scholar and her partner have won a highly selective biotechnology competition where they pitched plans to commercialise their novel device for administering life-saving drugs to infants during […]

Inside the Laurent Gbagbo trial

Lesson learned: always check the microphones. Just after the start of the Hague trial of former Côte d’Ivoire president Laurent Gbagbo, prosecutor Eric MacDonald accidentally revealed the names of four […]