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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 European Fellowship

A Gates Cambridge Scholar has been awarded a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions research fellowship to pursue research on healing from chronic wounds. Derrick Roberts has won one of Europe’s most competitive and […]

Hip-Hop in the classroom

How can Hip-Hop culture be used in the classroom to increase underrepresented communities’ access to universities? Aya Waller-Bey [2015] says Hip-Hop is rich with potential for engaging and educating students. […]

Europe’s top young social entrepreneurs

Two Gates Cambridge Scholars who co-founded the start-up SimPrints have been named in Forbes’ 30 under 30 Europe list for Social Entrepreneurs. Daniel Storisteanu [2012] and Toby Norman were named […]

Computer science revolution

A start-up founded and led by a Gates Cambridge Scholar has become the first South African organisation selected by Google to champion a national initiative to revolutionise the fields of […]

Beijing bound

A Gates Cambridge Scholar has won a prestigious scholarship to study for a master’s in China later this year. Carlos Gonzalez Sierra [2015], who is doing a master’s in Latin American […]

The origins of farming in Africa

How did farming develop in south eastern Nigeria and what are the implications today? Chioma Ngonadi’s PhD will take a broad look at how the agricultural tradition became established in […]

Alumna chosen as Rising Star

A Gates Cambridge alumna has been selected as a Rising Star in the Association for Psychological Science, reflecting the best and brightest of psychological science. Molly Crockett is one of […]

Self-harm and eating disorders in Japan

A new book explores representations of femininity and what it means to be a woman in relation to the rise in eating disorders and self-harm in Japan. The book, Femininity, Self-harm […]

Evolving genes

Ruoyun Hui [2015] believes that an understanding of the past is essential to interpret what we observe today. As student of Biology, this means she has been drawn to evolutionary […]

ASEAN: a useful model for Arctic cooperation

Governing regimes and indigenous groups in the Arctic should work to rise above regional divisions and build a vibrant identity of inclusiveness and cooperation, a Gates Cambridge Alumnus argues in a […]