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Crime down the generations
Children with criminal parents are more than twice as likely to themselves exhibit criminal behaviour, according to a new wide-ranging study led by a Gates Cambridge Scholar which suggests intergenerational […]
Scholar appointed to Latino Affairs commission
A Gates Cambridge Scholar has been appointed as a Commissioner on the Pennsylvania Governor’s Advisory Commission on Latino Affairs. Carlos Adolfo Gonzalez [2015], who did his MPhil at the University of Cambridge […]
Gates Scholar to speak at Black History Month event
Gates Cambridge Scholar Wale Adenbanwi will speak at an event to commemorate 30 years of Black History Month next week. Wale, the first Black African Rhodes Professor of Race Relations […]
Scholar appointed co-director of human rights centre
Gates Cambridge Scholar Ella McPherson has been appointed Co-Director of the Centre of Governance and Human Rights at the University of Cambridge. Ella is Lecturer in the Sociology of New […]
Scholars tell their stories
Four Gates Cambridge Scholars will tell their stories of life in the field at an event on 19th October. The Scholar Stories event will cover archaeology from the Mediterranean to […]
A grander mission
Shefali Mehta has not had a conventional career path and has straddled different academic disciplines. Now working as a freelance consultant on conservation and agriculture issues, she says Gates Cambridge […]
Power and vision
A Gates Cambridge Scholar and fellow PhD students have won funding for a graduate research group on the politics of vision, perception, memory and history, which will address issues of […]
Trailblazing woman in Archaeology
How do human populations adapt to environmental change? One answer is to look at ancient civilisations who have undergone similar change. Suzanne Pilaar Birch’s research uses oxygen isotopes to investigate […]
Top prize for play that incorporates academic research
A Gates Cambridge Scholar whose research contributed to a theatre production has seen the play that she worked on and helped to direct scoop a top theatre prize in Norway. Ragnhild Freng […]
Protect water supplies from storm damage
Clean water matters. My father manages a small water treatment system on the Southeast coast of Florida which provides water to fewer than 1,000 customers. I have seen first hand […]
