New Scholars 2009
Gates Cambridge Scholarships awarded to American students, February 2009
Following interviews held in Annapolis, MD on 6 and 7 February 2009, the Gates Cambridge Trust has awarded 37 Gates Cambridge Scholarships to American students to pursue Masters or PhD degrees at the University of Cambridge from October 2009.
Short biographies and photos of the successful candidates are available below.
For the October 2009 entry, 752 students from the United States applied for a Gates Cambridge Scholarship and 101 were shortlisted and attended interview.
The interviews were held at St John’s College and the United States Naval Academy. The Trust is grateful to the President and Staff of St John’s College and to the Superintendent and Staff of the United States Naval Academy for the use of their excellent facilities and for the invaluable support they give the Trust to enable the interviews to be held so efficiently.
The Trust also greatly appreciates the work of those who served on the interview panels.
An article about the new US scholars is available from the University's news page.
The Gates Cambridge Scholarship programme is international in scope: the Trust awards scholarships to candidates from any country outside the United Kingdom. A further round of interviews for candidates from countries other than the USA will be held in mid-April 2009 to select the remaining number of Gates Cambridge Scholars for the October 2009 entry.
Click on the name of the member below to view their profile.
| Name | Current or recent University | Hometown & State |
|---|---|---|
| Miss Alice Adriaenssens | University of California, Davis | Mountain View, CA |
| Mr Braxton Boren | Northwestern University | Pittsfield, IL |
| Miss Zsofia Botyanszki | University of California, Berkeley | Fremont, CA |
| Ms Rachel Boyd | Yale University | Brunswick, ME |
| Miss Kristin Buterbaugh | Northwestern University | Pittsburgh, PA |
| Mr Jon Chachula | US Military Academy | Dayton, OH |
| Ms Usha Chilukuri | Yale University | San Diego, CA |
| Mr Adam Comer | US Air Force Academy | Danville, VA |
| Miss Mary Beth Day | University of Florida | Seneca Falls, NY |
| Mr Stephen DeVries | US Naval Academy | Hamden, CT |
| Mr David Dillon | Northwestern University | Portland, OR |
| Mr Lucas Edelman | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Glenview, IL |
| Mr Alexander Fabry | Harvard University | New York, NY |
| Mr Ryan Going | North Carolina State University | Chapel Hill, NC |
| Miss Kathryn Greenberg | Mount Holyoke College | Raleigh, NC |
| Mr Alexander Jacobs | University of Pennsylvania | New York City, NY |
| Miss Emily Rose Jordan | Columbia University | Chicago, IL |
| Miss Alexandra Kamins | Emory University | Centennial, CO |
| Ms Leah Liu | Pennsylvania State University | Silver Spring, MD |
| Ms Katherine MacCord | University of Pittsburgh | Philadelphia, PA |
| Mr Muhammad (Bilal) Mahmood | Stanford University | Palo Alto, CA |
| Miss Kendra Millington | Mayo Medical School | Cleveland, OH |
| Ms Kavita Ramakrishnan | University of California, Los Angeles | Naperville, IL |
| Ms Elizabeth Ridgeway | Stanford University | Seattle, WA |
| Miss Caroline Robertson | Columbia University | Chicago, IL |
| Mr Chandler Robinson | Stanford University | Columbus, OH |
| Mr Victor Roy | Northwestern University | Bridgewater, NJ |
| Mr William Schmidt | Yale University | Richmond, VA |
| Miss Amanda Scott | Vanderbilt University | Virginia Beach, VA |
| Mr Samuel Sudar | University of Washington | Longview, WA |
| Mr Cameron Taylor | University of California, Santa Cruz | San Francisco, CA |
| Mr Thornton Thompson | University of Kansas | Lenexa, KS |
| Mr Vadim Tsipenyuk | Yale University | New York City, NY |
| Mr Zachary Watson | US Military Academy | Colleyville, TX |
| Mr Samuel Watson | University of Mississippi | Oxford, MS |
| Mr Orian Welling | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Custer, WI |
| Miss Alyssa Wilson | Drexel Unversity | Marlton, NJ |