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Exploring linguistic variation in ancient times
Sólveig Hilmarsdóttir [2022] fell in love with Classics and Latin grammar in secondary school. She is now in the final stages of her PhD thesis on Latin sociolinguistics, focusing on […]
Scholar scoops neuroscience award
Gates Cambridge Scholar Andrea Luppi has been named one of 25 rising stars in Neuroscience by The Transmitter, a leading neuroscience magazine. The Transmitter’s Rising Stars of Neuroscience recognises early-career […]
The meaning of intelligence
“Cephalopods are beautifully strange animals that look like nothing else on Earth, but they are very smart. Hearing that can be eye-opening for some. I hope to leverage that unexpectedness […]
An Alaskan odyssey
Two authors of the Arctic were in conversation at Bill Gates Sr. House this week to celebrate the publication of Ben Weissenbach’s new book North to the Future. Ben was […]
Re-imagining plural, inclusive design futures in AI
Two Gates Cambridge Scholars are co-authors of a new paper on a human-AI art experiment involving the works of the Bangladeshi artist S M Sultan. Abdullah Hasan Safir [2024] from […]
Exploring the infinitely expanding jigsaw puzzle of nature
Ming Yang’s immense curiosity about fundamental science started in childhood. He says: “Consciously or not, it always fascinated me how rich structures lie beneath very simple first principles.” His PhD […]
Mitigating the silences in the archives
How do we ensure that the lives of displaced people and those with a complicated legal status are documented in national archives? Before she started her PhD, Shealynn Hendry [2022] […]
From space food to suing states for future climate change harm
Five Gates Cambridge Scholars gave stimulating talks at the end of last week on topics ranging from space nutrition and paleooceanography to intelligence, ultrahabilitation and whether international courts can sue […]
Recent Scholar returns to Cambridge as assistant professor
A Gates Cambridge Scholar has been appointed an Assistant Professor at the University of Cambridge’s Department of Politics and International Studies at the age of 29 – just one year […]
Piecing together a scientific knowledge puzzle
Zhi-Yu Chen’s research is like piecing together a jigsaw puzzle. Zhi-Yu is interested in the cross-cultural exchange of scientific knowledge between Chinese migrants and other communities in Southeast Asia between […]
