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30 Sep 2017: During the Summer, I spent a week in Madeira with 5 of my friends from college. We had a great time exploring the island, finding a new activity to do every day. Before Madeira I had never been awa

30 Sep 2017: In 2017 I travelled to the Peruvian Amazon to take part in conservation volunteering with the Crees Foundation in the Manu Biosphere Reserve located just east of the Andes. After arriving in Cusco,

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 Sep 2017: After two weeks of teaching English in Guangzhou I arrived in Hong Kong. That evening I took the tram up to Victoria Peak which offered a spectacular night time view across the city’s glowing sky line

18 Sep 2017: Dame Barbara Stocking, the President of Murray Edwards College, has recently returned from a trip to Uganda and Kenya where, together with Helen Pennant from the Cambridge Trust, she was encouraging s

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

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: 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

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

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

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

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’

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