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New study focuses on role of serotonin in adapting to new environments
Lowering serotonin levels in humans impairs their ability to adapt their emotions and behaviour to changing environments which could have important implications for mental health issues and their treatment, according […]
Designing a VR cockpit for India’s space mission
A Gates Cambridge Scholar will be principal investigator in the design of a virtual reality cockpit for India’s maiden human space flight mission. Pradipta Biswas is Assistant Professor at the Centre for […]
Ed-tech wins Gates Foundation funding for access work
An ed-tech non-profit co-founded by a Gates Cambridge Scholar has received a $980,000 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop its free college affordability tool. Moneythink, co-founded […]
Gates Cambridge: a purposeful community
As the Gates Cambridge Scholarship reaches the end of its 20th anniversary year, its alumni association is holding an event late this month which celebrates some of the factors that […]
Fibre optic project aims to improve Sri Lanka’s infrastructure
A Gates Cambridge Alumnus has formed a partnership between his university, Cambridge and Oxford universities and a local engineering company to introduce a cutting-edge technology to Sri Lanka. A team […]
Building an energy revolution
Context matters when it comes to the transition to renewable energy and researchers need to work with local people on the ground to ensure that associated technologies work better, a […]
20 for 20: Gates Cambridge celebrates its 20th anniversary
Between 2020 and 2021 we have been celebrating the 20th anniversary of Gates Cambridge with a number of special events on everything from climate change to gender, an anniversary edition […]
What motivates electric vehicle drivers?
As the UK faces petrol and diesel shortages, a new study led by a Gates Cambridge Scholar outlines the kind of policies that are needed to drive higher uptake of […]
Beyond the limits in astronomical research
Arnab Sarkar’s PhD research, which he starts this autumn, will review the Nobel prize-winning research of Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar into white dwarfs – very dense and small ‘corpses’ of stars that […]
Power politics and big tech
Alina Utrata’s family is very embedded in Silicon Valley and Alina grew up amid the Silicon Valley boom. Many of her school friends have gone on to take up jobs […]
