*Marjorie Sorensen [2010] is doing a PhD in Zoology at the University of Cambridge where she is a Gates Cambridge Scholar.

Migratory birds make seemingly impossible journeys thousands of kilometres long. They cross oceans, high mountains and barren deserts to exploit the...

*Njoki Wamai [2012] is a Gates Cambridge Scholar from Kenya in Politics and IR. She was a human rights worker during the Kenyan Post Election Violence in 2007/08, focusing on women's experience of the mediation process that followed. Her current research is on the impact of the external...

*Joan Ko [2006] is part of Arup's sustainability group in Melbourne. She did an MPhil in Engineering for Sustainable Development. Photo credit: Marcus and http://www.freedigitalphotos.net.

Over the past five years, more and more of my work is with developers who are developing...

*Brianne Kent [2011] and Cameron Taylor [2009] are doing PhDs in Experimental Psychology and Italian respectively. Photo credit: Jeremy Russell.

Last week, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet , Tenzin Gyatso, visited Cambridge to attend the

*Sara Habibi [2011] is doing a PhD in Post-Conflict Reconciliation. Photo credit: Ambro and http://www.freedigitalphotos.net.

Countries which have been through deep trauma and crisis caused by violence and war need to prioritise conflict-sensitive approaches to education, an international meeting heard earlier this...

*Alexandra Kamins [2009] studied for a PhD in Veterinary Science with the support of a Gates Cambridge Scholarship. Picture credit: Danilo Rizzuti and http://www.freedigitalphotos.net

The lines on the graph were flip-flopping across the printout more than the election results of...

*Daniel Storisteanu [2012] is doing a PhD in Medicine. Picture credit: http://www.freedigitalphotos.net and Stuart Miles.

Last July on Parliament Hill in Canada, funeral bells tolled for an unlikely victim. Hundreds of scientists clad in white lab coats paced mournfully, lamenting what they were calling 'the death of science...

*Brianne Kent [2011] is doing a PhD in Experimental Psychology

When it comes to the brain, it seems that bigger is better. Neurogenesis is the term scientists use to refer to the production of new brain cells, called 'neurons'. It was once thought that neurogenesis only occurred prenatally,...

*Rajna Golubic [2008] is doing a PhD in Epidemiology which she began in 2010. Picture credit: Sura Nualpradid and http://www.freedigitalphotos.net.

"Doing some physical activity is better than doing none." (10 facts on physical activity, World Health Organization)

While the benefits of...

Kathryn (Kate) Crowcroft [2012] is twice Gates Scholar. Her PhD focusses on medical and theological ideas about the mouth from medieval into early modern culture.

Admittedly, discussions on medieval thought do not often start with genetics, nor such opportunistic use...

*Njoki Wamai [2012] is doing a PhD in Politics and International Studies. Photo: Jerome Starkey and Creative Commons.

Since Mali adopted a new constitution in 1992, the country has been considered democratic and subsequent elections were lauded free and fair as President...

*Mary Beth Day [2009] is doing a PhD in Earth Sciences. Picture credit: http://www.freedigitalphotos.net and J. Frasse.

I grew up between the Great Lakes and the Finger Lakes, and for the first two decades of my life my...

*Yen-Chun Cheryl Chen [2010] is currently a PhD student studying Sociology at the University of Cambridge. Picture credit: Danilo Rizzuti and http://www.freedigitalphotos.net.

After the Chinese New Year, I will officially become a 30-year-old woman. Chinese New Year used to be a fun-filled...

*Marie Brunet [2011] is doing a PhD in Pharmacology. Picture credit: Dream designs and http://www.freedigitalphotos.net.

I am a PhD student in Pharmacology. As I learnt over the past year, this can be a pretty good conversation killer. Except if people misunderstand you and are suddenly dying to know...

Albert A. Arhin (2012) is doing a PhD in Geography. He was previously a Research and Policy Manager for Oxfam in Ghana working on health, climate change and agriculture. Picture credit: Sheelamohan and http://www.freedigitalphotos.net.

There is a growing move at the international level towards universal health coverage (UHC)...

*Brianne Kent is a Gates Cambridge Scholar doing a PhD in Experimental Psychology. Picture credit: www.freedigitalphotos.net and Ohmega1982.

The unprecedented rise in obesity is now a global epidemic. It is widely known that the accumulation of excess body fat increases the risk...

Max Reibman [2010] is a Gates Cambridge Scholar doing a PhD in History.

Amid a drawn-out civil war in Syria, sectarian tensions across Libya and Bahrain and a stalled political process in Yemen, Egypt has emerged among its neighbour states as a paradox of post-revolutionary change in the...

The publication of HPG's new report Sanctuary in the city: urban displacement and vulnerability in the Gaza Strip coincides with the immediate aftermath of the Israeli military operation Pillar of Defence. The operation saw 450 homes destroyed or severely damaged;...

Stan Wang [2011] is doing a PhD in Surgery at the University of Cambridge.

Monday, October 8th 2012 could have been a morning like any other in the Gurdon lab, save for a few unique exceptions. To begin with, this was the first time my supervisor, Sir John...

*Todd Tucker is doing a PhD in Developmental Studies. For more on his studies, click here. Picture credit: Graur Codrin and www.freedigitalphotos.net.

Tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of death in the world today....