Gates Cambridge Trust Gates Cambridge Scholars 2008 2 Gates Cambridge Scholarship Year Book | 2008 Gates Cambridge Scholars 2008 Scholars are listed alphabetically by name within their year-group. The list includes current Scholars, although a few will start their course in January or April 2009 or later. Several students listed here may be spending all or part of the academic year 2008-09 working away from Cambridge whilst undertaking field-work or other study as an integral part of their doctoral research. The list also retains some Scholars who will complete their PhD thesis and will be leaving Cambridge before the end of the academic year. Some Scholars shown as working for a PhD degree will be required to complete successfully in 2009 a post-graduate certificate or Master’s degree, or similar qualification, before being allowed by the University to proceed with doctoral studies. A full list of the 290 Gates Scholars in residence during 2008–09 appears indexed by name on the last two pages of this yearbook. An alphabetical list of the 534 Gates Scholars who have, as of October 2008, completed the tenure of their scholarships appears on pages 92–100. Contents Preface 4 Gates Cambridge Trust: Trustees and Officers 5 Scholars in Residence 2008 by year of award 2004 8 2005 10 2006 24 2007 39 2008 59 Countries of origin of current Scholars 90 Gates Scholars’ Society: Scholars’ Council 91 Gates Scholars’ Society: Alumni Association 91 Scholars who have completed the tenure of their scholarship 92 Index of Gates Scholars in this yearbook by name 101 NOTES * Indicates that a Scholar applied for and was awarded a second Gates Cambridge Scholarship for further study at Cambridge ** Indicates that a Scholar was given permission by the Trust to defer their Gates Cambridge Scholarship © 2008 Gates Cambridge Trust All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or means, without prior permission in writing of the copyright holder. 4 Gates Cambridge Scholarship Year Book | 2008 Gates Cambridge Scholarship Year Book | 2008 5 Gates Cambridge Trust: Trustees Mr William H. Gates Sr Professor Alison Richard Co-Chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Vice Chancellor of the University of Foundation Cambridge and Chair of the Gates Cambridge Trust Dr William Gerberding Baroness O’Neill of Bengarve PBA Former President of the University of President of the British Academy and Washington former President of Newnham College, Cambridge Lord Rees of Ludlow PRS Mrs Anne Lonsdale President the Royal Society and Former President of Murray Edwards Master of Trinity College, Cambridge College (New Hall), Cambridge, Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, and Chair of Camfed International Professor Lord Broers Dr Andrew Robertson FREng FRS Fellow of UC Berkeley Center for Vice-Chancellor Emeritus of the Emerging and Neglected Disease, and University of Cambridge and Former Gates Scholar 2001 President of the Royal Academy of Engineering Gates Cambridge Trust: Officers Dr Gordon Johnson (Provost) Mr Andrew Thompson MBE President of Wolfson College, and (Treasurer) Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the Fellow (and former Bursar) of Magdalene University of Cambridge College, Cambridge Mr James Smith Dr Jonathan Nicholls (Executive Officer) (Secretary) Senior Member of Wolfson College, Registrary of the University of Cambridge Cambridge Ms Hilary Perrott Mr Thomas Billinge (Executive Officer) (Administrative Assistant) Gates Cambridge Trust: The Scholars 2008 8 Gates Cambridge Scholarship Year Book | 2004 2004 Ms Sarah COURSE IN CAMBRIDGE: INTERESTS: Alexander PhD in Classics My interests include history, politics, philosophy, St John’s College literature, music, film, food and conversation. Ireland PREVIOUS UNIVERSITIES: Trinity College, Dublin I am delighted to have the opportunity to work towards a PhD in Classics at Cambridge. My particular focus is Hellenistic Greek poetry and literary criticism. Ms Laura Allan COURSE IN CAMBRIDGE: 100 million AD sufferers worldwide. This PhD in Pharmacology translates into severe strain on medical, Germany Queens’ College monetary and human resources. I would like to make a contribution towards PREVIOUS UNIVERSITIES: acquiring a clearer understanding of AD University of Newcastle upon Tyne thus advancing the search for treatments which will halt its progression or indeed I am investigating the role of amyloid effect a cure. precursor protein derived peptides in the pathological mechanism of Alzheimer’s INTERESTS: Disease (AD). It has been predicted that I enjoy music and dance of all kinds and both indoor in 50 years time there will be as many as and outdoor sporting activities. Ms Karuna COURSE IN CAMBRIDGE: pathogens, and develop affordable means Ganesh MBBCh in Clinical Studies of combating them. In this way, and by Fitzwilliam College participating in international health policy India planning, I hope to make a real difference PREVIOUS UNIVERSITIES: to people’s health in the poorest parts of the University of Cambridge world. The Gates Cambridge Scholarship will INTERESTS: allow me to study clinical medicine and Molecular evolution, political philosophy and pursue doctoral research at Cambridge, international affairs, literature, languages, thereby preparing me for a career as a Bharatanatyam, community service, travel, medical scientist. In the long term, I hope to badminton, wine, chocolate... study virulence mechanisms of microbial Miss Yinglin Ji COURSE IN CAMBRIDGE: research lens. I believe that my potential PhD in English and Applied Linguistics as an English teacher and researcher China Trinity Hall will be further exploited in the highly stimulating and exciting atmosphere of PREVIOUS UNIVERSITIES: Cambridge. I’m also very grateful to the Beijing University Gates Cambridge Trust for their generous Ocean University of China financial support of my PhD study in Cambridge. My career goal is to become a linguist who can view language teaching from INTERESTS: the perspective of a practitioner and Reading, Chinese ancient poetry, music, jogging, meanwhile, a practitioner who would travelling. like to see language teaching through a Gates Cambridge Scholarship Year Book | 2004 9 2004 Miss Ella COURSE IN CAMBRIDGE: living in Mexico City conducting my McPherson PhD in Social and Political Science fieldwork. The aims of my thesis are to shed Pembroke College light on cultures of information as well as United States to provide a greater understanding of the PREVIOUS UNIVERSITIES: important relationship between the press University of Cambridge and human rights organizations in Princeton University combating violations. My PhD is on the factors affecting how the INTERESTS: Mexican press covers human rights stories. Latin American films, documentary photography, This meant I spent a large part of 2006 Mexican food & drink, train travel, ebay. Mr Ramar COURSE IN CAMBRIDGE: infrastructure projects specifically projects Pandia Raj PhD in Engineering related to Structural Engineering. Such Jesus College knowledge will undoubtedly help me India and my country to realise the vision of PREVIOUS UNIVERSITIES: making a developing country like India Indian Institute of Technology into a developed country. I gratefully University of Madras acknowledge the support of the Gates Cambridge Trust. My PhD research in Cambridge University will add value to the research that I have INTERESTS: carried out during my MS at IIT Madras. Badminton, swimming, travelling, listening to music This will enable me to understand and use and reading literature. technological innovation in various Mr Jan Trnka* COURSE IN CAMBRIDGE: history and philosophy of science, again MPhil in History, Philosophy and Sociology of supported by the Gates Cambridge Trust. Czech Republic Science, Technology and Medicine Understanding the philosophical basis of St John’s College modern science is, in my view, crucial if we are to solve the many problems in modern PREVIOUS UNIVERSITIES: biomedical science and practice – from Charles University, Prague cognitive sciences to medical ethics. I had the good fortune to receive my first INTERESTS: Gates scholarship to study mitochondria- Playing sports (rowing, volleyball, skiing and others), targeted antioxidants and other related hiking, backpacking, debating about religion, chemicals, which could potentially help in philosophy, politics and anything else I know little the treatment of diseases such as Parkinson about, learning languages, listening to music, going disease or Alzheimer’s dementia. In 2008 to cinema, meeting interesting people. I will study towards a MPhil in the Ms Abigail COURSE IN CAMBRIDGE: penal policy. I am also interested in Wild** PhD in Criminological Research prison conversion narratives, photographic Pembroke College representation of prisoners, and historical United States constructions of criminal typologies and their PREVIOUS UNIVERSITIES: use in substantiating (frequently racialized) Harvard University claims about atavistic types. I plan to research women’s rights and mental INTERESTS: health care in Latin American prisons. I am Inclusive action learning environments (especially interested in questions of cross-cultural outdoor), primatology, water-skiing, violin, board applicability of prison modeling and games, soccer, neurotheology, sleep/dream research, in culturally contingent explanations for hiking, costume parties. gaps between criminological research and 10 Gates Cambridge Scholarship Year Book | 2004–05