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Breaking through the health boundaries
Ghufran Al Sayed was beginning her clinical work as a medical student in Manchester when Covid hit. Like many medical students at the time, she was redeployed onto Covid wards […]
New thinking for education leaders
A Gates Cambridge Scholar has co-authored a new book which is being described by leading educationalists as transforming the way schools think about change. The Pruning Principle offers a new approach […]
A passion for biotech innovation in Africa
Taryn Adams has long been interested in bridging the gap between science and business in order to ensure science has practical, useful applications. Coming from South Africa, she says the […]
Caught on camera: how we see the world through digital images
Emmanuel Iduma will be one of the first people to do the University of Cambridge’s new PhD in Digital Humanities and he brings a wealth of experience in multimedia to […]
Tributes paid to Arif Naveed – ‘a brilliant scholar and an even better human being’
It is with great sadness that the Trust has learned of the death of Gates Cambridge Scholar Arif Naveed [2014]. Arif did his PhD in Education at the University of […]
Tributes to Arif Naveed
“Arif Naveed’s mission as a sociologist and economist of education was to achieve social justice for marginalised groups, especially those in poor communities. His internationally valued contribution was to design […]
Healing through regenerative medicine
Kerem Çitak [2024] comes from a medical family, but he opted instead to go into Materials Science and Bioengineering. At the heart of his work at Cambridge, however, is an emphasis […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
