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Integrating refugees in Germany and Lebanon
A Gates Cambridge alumna has been awarded a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellowship to compare the ways refugees are integrated into host societies in Germany and Lebanon. Hanna Baumann [2012], […]
Provost to head Society for Neuroscience
Gates Cambridge Provost Professor Barry Everitt has been chosen as President-Elect of the Society for Neuroscience. He is the first President of the Society to be actively based at an […]
Memories are made of this
Levan Bokeria has been researching how memories are formed and consolidated, in essence how they move from our short to our long term memory. He says: “I am looking at […]
Cycling in service
A Gates Cambridge Scholar is cycling 545 miles to raise funds for HIV/AIDS treatment in the Bay Area of California through AIDS/LifeCycle. Ben Cole [2011] had just moved to San […]
A voice for basic human rights
Salma Daoudi is interested in exploring social and economic rights as basic human rights and in how issues such as access to health and education get little attention because those […]
The State of Things
A Gates Cambridge Scholar is raising funds to start a unique educational platform that addresses shortcomings in citizenship and political education across the UK and other regions of the world. […]
Predicting footfall at new venues
How can new urban venues better predict their chances of success? Researchers at the University of Cambridge have used the Foursquare platform to look at footfall in localised areas at […]
Exploring Andean prehistory
A Gates Cambridge Scholar has become a National Geographic explorer after winning a National Geographic Early Career grant. Sara Morrisset [2016] won the $5K grant for her archaeological fieldwork this […]
Exploring alternative forms of power
Sandile Mtetwa wants to transform the energy sector in her country. Her PhD in Chemistry, which she will begin in the autumn, will investigate alternative energy sources which can produce […]
GSS navigates uncertainty
Scholars need to collaboratively design new institutions to tackle the crises of the 21st century world, the first Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court told the Global Scholars Symposium […]
