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7 Dec 2017: Besides taking standard engineering moducles, I now study Business Economics, which I find fascinatin despite never having done it before, and I've kept up my French by doing language classes

30 Sep 2017: Using Gateway funding, I travelled to Funchal, a city on the island of Madeira in Portugal with a group of friends. As we were each travelling from different countries, planning this trip entailed coo

19 Apr 2017: Professor Dame Julia King DBE FREng is an engineer who was Vice-Chancellor of Aston University from 2006 to 2016. She read Natural Sciences at New Hall, matriculating in 1972. King is a crossbench

30 Nov 2017: I’m sure when you think of a fish, the first word that pops into your head isn’t ‘fascinating.’ Fish certainly aren't the most loved animal on the planet, and you'd think that they definitely wouldn’t

30 Sep 2017: This year with the help of Gateway Challenges Funding, I finally made it to France. I did French from Year 7 through to GCSE at high school and have never stayed in France before. I wanted the opportu

30 Sep 2017: At the beginning of August, 2017, I travelled to Augsburg in Southern Germany to complete a month-long German language course for beginners. The Gateway Fund contributed towards the cost of this trip.

2 Nov 2017: I can vividly recall the summer of 2008 in Sri Lanka, looking out of my hotel window and my eyes beholding a bright, fluorescent pink…it was a flamingo. With its broad curves and long stick-like legs

30 Sep 2017: After taking French lessons at the university’s language centre for the past two years, this summer I decided to put Gateway’s funding opportunity to good use and live in Lyon, France for two weeks.

30 Sep 2017: Cambridge Development Initiative is a student-run development CIO working in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Each year, about 40 volunteers from Cambridge join with 40 volunteers from universities across Dar

30 Sep 2017: I always knew that, if I were to ever use Gateway funding for a summer experience, it had to be for a research trip to Warsaw – the city is my favourite place in the world, and its bountiful, if hea

19 Oct 2017: How my degree has helped me Having graduated from Murray Edwards in June with a Masters in Chemical Engineering, I joined the graduate scheme at Jaguar Land Rover. While a very different field to w

1 Sep 2017: With the funding I received from the Murray-Edwards Gateway program I was able to travel to Cameroon this summer, exploring the beautiful country and reconnecting with Cameroonian friends while workin

5 Oct 2017: As a child I asked an infinite number of questions: Why is it always raining? Why can’t I eat chocolate for breakfast? Why is the sky blue? Yet all these questions were answered with ‘‘it just is’

19 Jan 2017: When studying phenomena outside the controlled conditions of the lab there are a whole host of variables that can affect your results. How an animal population behaves one season to the next, or why o

9 Feb 2017: There are two lectures that stick in my mind about career guidance while at Cambridge studying Computer Science.  One advised that the ONLY career path worth doing was to get a smart suit, join o

30 Sep 2017: I’ve wanted to go interrailing for a long time and through Gateway, I’ve finally been able to fulfil my wish. Planning the holiday was trickier than anticipated as ensuring we always had affordable pl

9 Mar 2017: Women make up nearly half of the UK workforce but only around 13% of those working in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) occupations, and less than 20% of senior managers in

21 Sep 2017: I started at Cambridge Medical Robotics Ltd in September 2014 to join a team of engineers and scientists aiming to develop the next generation universal robotic system for minimal access surgery.

26 Oct 2017: Richard, The economic costs of pain in the United States. J Pain, 2012.

27 Apr 2017: It has been more than 20 years since I set foot in Murray Edwards, excited to have made it to Cambridge. I had chosen to study Maths, the subject that I most loved at school. Soon after I found out th