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Gates Cambridge at the Cambridge Festival
Gates Cambridge Scholars will be speaking at the Cambridge Festival next month on a range of topics, from climate change social entrepreneurs to local currencies and AI. The Cambridge Festival runs […]
First cohort of 2024 Gates Cambridge Scholars announced
Twenty-six of the most academically outstanding and socially committed US citizens have been selected to be part of the 2024 class of Gates Cambridge Scholars at the University of Cambridge. […]
What is education for?
Best-selling author Tara Westover [2009], researcher Aliya Khalid [2015] and Thabo Msibi [2009], Deputy Vice Chancellor for Teaching and Learning at the University of KwaZulu-Natal are the guests in the […]
Why technology needs feminism
What is good technology? Is ‘good’ technology even possible? And how can feminism contribute towards it? Those questions and more are at the heart of a new book co-edited by […]
‘Knowledge alone isn’t enough’
The summer before starting his PhD at the University of Cambridge, Rob Henderson was working up a book proposal with his literary agent. That book, Troubled, is published next month […]
Connecting climate change and mental health
A Gates Cambridge Scholar is organising a webinar to publicise the formal launch of a public, online information hub on the intersection between climate change and mental health. Colleen Rollins […]
Reconnecting through music
When José Izquierdo [2013] was working on his PhD at Cambridge on how Latin American composers united European and local influences in the 19th century, he found a way to make […]
Scholar on winning team for inaugural AI prize
A project on how local authorities in England can use AI ethically to improve the public value they offer has been selected as one of five winners of a new […]
Gates Cambridge Scholar wins Sundance directing award
A Gates Cambridge Scholar has won the US Documentary Directing Award at the Sundance Film Festival for an investigation into systematic abuse at an Indian residential school in Canada. Emily […]
Celebrating science in Pune
Why do we forget most of our memories from infancy? How can psychedelics help rats decide better? What happens when worms are high on cannabis? These were some of the […]
