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5 Apr 2017: Professor Bell Burnell matriculated at New Hall in 1965. As a postgraduate student, Bell Burnell discovered the first radio pulsars while studying and advised by her thesis supervisor Antony Hewish

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

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: 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.

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 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: 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.

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

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