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Solving a mathematical problem
Nadja Tschentscher [2010] has always been interested in issues that bring science and the humanities closer together. She believes there is no easy division between the two and that both […]
Acoustics archaeologists recreate Renaissance experience
What would the works of great Renaissance composers like Monteverdi, Willaert and Gabrieli have sounded like when they were heard for the first time? Research by Gates alumnus Braxton Boren […]
Teachers ‘need to be more innovative’
Technology has been the driving force of change in education for too long and teachers need to become more innovative in their use of it, a Gates scholar has told […]
The business of public health
Toby Norman [2010] is passionate about global health, but he realised after years of working with NGOs that a new approach to public health was necessary to have a real […]
Eastern Europe ‘has not learnt the lessons of capitalism’
Most, if not all, of the promises for a better standard of living and a stronger economic system given at the beginning of the transition process in Eastern Europe have […]
Memory and the ageing population
Gates scholar Luning Sun [2010] is interested in the way people’s minds work and in developing a test for measuring memory function to help the increasing ageing population. For his […]
Alumnus scoops award as he launches start-up
A Gates alumnus and entrepreneur has won a prestigious Computer Science award for his thesis which overturns previous assumptions about the discipline and helps to create a foundation for better […]
Jaya Savige invited to Buckingham Palace
Gates scholar Jaya Savige was invited to meet the Queen at an official reception earlier this month ahead of an official royal visit to Australia this week. Jaya [2008], an […]
History prize for Gates alumnus
A Gates alumnus has been awarded two prestigious prizes for his doctoral dissertation on Germany’s policy towards Islam during the 1940s. Dr David Motadel [2006], who is a Research Fellow […]
Behind the scenes at Cambridge Festival of Ideas
The Cambridge Festival of Ideas, a celebration of the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, launches today and a Gates scholar has been working behind the scenes to help it all […]
