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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

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

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

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

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

23 Feb 2017: According to Hamann, increased activity in the middle orbital cortex is usually associated with pleasure and positive emotion.

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.

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