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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

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: 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

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

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

25 May 2017: I work as a Senior Patent Attorney at a leading semiconductor design company.  Previously I worked as a Patent Attorney in a UK Patent and Trademark Attorney firm, and before this I spent some ti

23 Feb 2017: So why do we, the human race, adore these loveable creatures? If you don't then you're not human, seriously if you find pandas ugly there is something wrong. A behavioural neuroscientist calle

30 Sep 2017: The Gateway Challenges and Rosemary Murray fund allowed me to spend 5 weeks of my summer travelling around South-East Asia with a group of four friends. We left at the end of June, which meant that af

16 Mar 2017: Flow chemistry equipment   One of the things that is challenging about scientific research is that the problems needing to be solved are constantly evolving. Solutions which were previousl

28 Sep 2017: In 1983, when I was a Cambridge undergraduate studying Part II Pathology, the virus HIV was identified in patients suffering from a newly observed fatal disease called AIDS (acquired immune defici

16 Feb 2017: There are women in science. And then there is the science of women in science. Exploring and applying this science is important to me as a social psychologist, from the USA. Why do we need a science o

24 Oct 2017: As we have seen these past weeks with Harvey Weinstein, unfettered power leaves the way open for the unscrupulous, arrogant and narcissistic. Whether in film, sports or music, the differences in rewar

11 May 2017: What area of science are you working in? I am the chief editor of Nature Reviews Materials – a journal published by Springer Nature. We launched in January 2016 and, as the first journal in the

1 Jun 2017: Naked mole rats are undoubtedly ugly. With a hairless wrinkled body, small sharp claws and two large protruding teeth capable of moving independently, they appear more like a mutant from a horror fi

2 Mar 2017: Materials Science for me was a good middle ground between engineering and “pure” science, as it lies at the boundaries between chemistry, physics, and engineering. It is a very directly ap

30 Sep 2017: During the summer, I joined a team of 20 students to participate as a research assistant in a two week wildlife conservation expedition in Croatia. The trip was coordinated by Operation Wallacea, an o

10 Nov 2017: Waking up to experiments with plants and algae. My name’s Liat and I’m currently in my fourth year studying for a masters in Biochemistry. I started out at Murray Edwards doing natural sciences whi

12 Oct 2017:   I’m about to start my second year studying maths at Cambridge and I can’t wait to go back, even though it had never actually been my plan to do maths! I originally intended to do physics, ha

20 Apr 2017: My educational background gave me a passion for applied science and engineering, and a summer vacation job in the chemical industry gave me an appreciation for the wide variety of opportunities availa

26 Jan 2017: The amount of times I’ve tripped over or hit something while walking around in the dark is unfathomable; it’s got to the point where I’ve somewhat accepted my incapability to manoeuv

30 Sep 2017: Upon completing my first year of studying the “classic trio” of the Physical Natural Sciences modules, physics, chemistry and material science, I was left uncertain which branch of science was the mos

30 Sep 2017: My Gateway funding allowed me to travel with four friends to New York, Toronto and through the Canadian Rockies for a total of 16 days. We flew into Toronto thinking that we would have a couple of hou

4 May 2017: Optunia Microdasys (‘Bunny ears’ cactus)   There has been increased demand for new methods of separating oil and water mixtures both from environmental protection organis

18 May 2017: When I came to Cambridge I thought I’d end up in Physics, but I’m currently in my third year doing Materials Science! I’d barely even heard of materials science before I did Natura

12 Jan 2017: As a researcher on the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, one of the things I love about my job is that on a day-to-day basis I get to interact with scientists from different backg

8 Jun 2017: Halfway through my degree, I can confidently say that there’s nothing I would rather be doing. Physics is a stimulating subject in so many ways, allowing a really deep understanding of how the

23 Mar 2017: I never really classed myself as a scientist; after all, I was arty, a writer, a people person and more into ‘why’ than ‘how’. Art and English literature were ‘my thing

2 Feb 2017: Some people see beauty in the works by the great Masters of the Renaissance or in the words of Shakespeare, but I see beauty in the cellular world. It’s only when you sit back, slow down and loo

16 Nov 2017: In addition to doing research in Maths, I have been teaching at university since I was myself an undergraduate: in different roles, about different topics, and to different types of students. I was a

23 Nov 2017: For me, the most important transition in the evolution of life on Earth is the one that occurred over half a billion years ago during the Ediacaran time period. Prior to the Ediacaran, there had been

30 Sep 2017: Myself and eleven other University Pentathletes went to the Caribbean to develop our skills and fitness before the start of term. The 9-day trip saw us swim over 10 km, run over 30km, ride along co

26 Jan 2017: There are three types of love. In order of increasing strength, these are: ‘Eros’ (or erotic) love; ‘Philos’ (or friendship) love and ‘Agape’ (or unconditional love

30 Nov 2017: Ever since Mars has been known to humans, it has been a source of speculation. Is there life on Mars? Does Mars have oceans? Can humans live on Mars? Essentially, Mars is a huge area of curiosity an