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What do the founder of a children’s health centre from Botswana, an award-winning Nigerian author and a theoretical cosmologist have in common?

All have been selected as Gates Cambridge Scholars in 2026

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Features - The researcher analysing far-right rhetoric on Facebook
Meet Raphael Hernandes, a PhD student at Cambridge Digital Humanities and Selwyn College. He is a researcher and data journalist specialising in AI, journalism, and society.

News - Helping young conservationists plug in and shine bright
The Student Conference in Conservation Science has connected thousands of young conservationists determined to tackle the biodiversity crisis. This year it celebrates its 25th anniversary.

News - €211 million funding for Cambridge graphene photonics spinout
University spinout, CamGraPhIC, has received the European Commission greenlight for €211 million funding (about £183 million) from Italy to support the development of photonic optical transceivers based on graphene.
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Admissions - Subject Masterclasses: Tuesday 5 to Thursday 21 May
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Exhibitions - War Craft at the Fitzwilliam Museum: until Sunday 23 August
Bringing together objects crafted in the moment and aftermath of historic battles, modern warfare and contemporary war, War Craft shares the stories of the soldiers, civilians and prisoners of war who made them.

Exhibitions - Living Water: poetry, art and the fight for clean rivers: until Saturday 5 December
Living Water is a free exhibition at Cambridge University Library and Pembroke College. The exhibition uncovers the extraordinary, creative friendship between artist Barrie Cooke and poets Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes and John Montague.
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