The Gates Cambridge Scholarships

New Scholars 2008

Scholarships awarded in February 2008

Following interviews held in Annapolis MD in February this year, the Gates Cambridge Trust awarded scholarships for study at the University of Cambridge to 44 US students applying for one-year Masters degrees and longer PhD degrees.

635 students from the United States applied for a Gates Cambridge Scholarship this year, and 119 of them were interviewed 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.

Scholarships awarded in May 2008

The Faculties and Departments of the University of Cambridge put forward the names of 1204 students for consideration for Gates Cambridge Scholarships in April and May.  Panels in Australia and India considered approximately 135 candidates, and panels in Cambridge interviewed 112 candidates in person or by telephone.  Scholarships were offered to 35 candidates for PhD, 26 candidates for MPhil, and 1 BAaffiliated candidate.

Again the Trust greatly appreciates the work of the interview panels in Australia, India and Cambridge, and the assistance of the staff of Wolfson College in Cambridge, the venue for UK interviews.

The Trust has also agreed to support the doctoral studies of 11 Gates Scholars currently completing one-year courses in Cambridge. 

Click on the name of the member below to view their profile.

Name Current or recent University Hometown & State
Miss Emily Alden University of Iowa LeClaire, IA
Mr Marcelo Alvisio Massachusetts Institute of Technology Buenos Aires, Argentina
Mr Abdullahi Aminu University of Lagos Igbobi - fadeyi, Nigeria
Mr Joshua Batson Yale University Saratoga, CA
Miss Marianne Bauer St Andrew's University Munich, Germany
Miss Sytske Besemer Free University Amsterdam Leiden, The Netherlands
Mr Apoorva Bhandari University of Edinburgh Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
Mr Joseph Bonneau Stanford University Ross, CA
Miss Anna Bonnell-Freidin Harvard University Berkeley, CA
Dr Alice Chang James Cook University Brisbane, Australia
Mr Yuyin (Allen) Chen Harvard University West Bloomfield, MI
Miss Shannon Chiu Williams College Woodbridge, CT
Mr Edward Chouchani Carleton University Ottawa, Canada
Miss Lindsay Chura Mount Holyoke College Slingerlands, NY
Mr Joseph Clair Fordham University Corvallis, OR
Mr Benjamin Clemenzi-Allen University of Massachusetts (Amherst) Belchertown, MA
Mr Joshua Cook University of Pennsylvania Burlington, NJ
Mr Edward Davis University of California (Berkeley) Chicago, IL
Mr Mathieu Desruisseaux Harvard University Sherbrooke, Quebec
Mr Michael Duyzend Carleton College Shoreline, WA
Mr William Eucker United States Naval Academy Denver, CO
Mr Alexandre Flavier Ecole Normale Superieure de Paris Toulon, France
Mr Kenneth Fockele Princeton University Gainesville, GA
Miss Molly Fox Yale University Muttontown, NY
Mr Ronn Friedlander Rutgers University Cranford, NJ
Mr Christopher Geissler University of Cambridge Voorhees, NJ
Miss Talia Gershon Massachusetts Institute of Technology East Meadow, NY
Miss Claudia Giambartolomei The George Washington University Rome, Italy
Ms Girija Godbole University of Pune Pune, India
Dr Rajna Golubic Zagreb University Zagreb, Croatia
Mr Tyler Goodspeed Harvard University Exeter, NH
Miss Anna Gordon Australian National University Hamilton, Australia
Mr Philip Graff University of Maryland, Baltimore County Manalapan, NJ
Mr Simon Gray University of Maryland, Baltimore County Durban, South Africa
Mr Andrew Gruen Northwestern University Minnetonka, MN
Miss Katie Gunderson University of Oklahoma Heyburn, ID
Mr Michael Gwinner University of Stuttgart Balingen, Germany
Miss Paula Haas University of Cambridge Hanau, Germany
Mr Michael Hayoun Rutgers University Margate, NJ
Mr Muhammad Irfan University of Cambridge Lahore, Pakistan
Mr Noah Isserman Amherst College Urbana, IL
Mr Arun Jacob St Stephen's College, University of Delhi Chungom, Kerala, India
Miss Smruthi Jayasundar Sri Ramachandra University Chennai, India
Miss Jesse Kalata Boston University Mansfield, PA
Miss Tae-Yeoun Keum Yale University Taguig City, Metro Manila, Philippines
Mr Koel Ko University of Cambridge Kowloon, Hong Kong
Mr Sreenivasa Kondapally Seshasai University of Cambridge Secunedrabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
Miss Eszter Kovacs University of Sydney Sydney, Australia
Mr Naveen Krishnan Massachusetts Institute of Technology Del Mar, CA
Mr Niraj Lal Australian National University Perth, Australia
Miss Alexandra Leech University of Cambridge Blackrock, Ireland
Miss Julia Fan Li University of British Columbia Vancouver, Canada
Miss Rachel Linn University of Cambridge Sunnyvale, CA
Mr Sean Lip University of Cambridge Selangor, Malaysia
Ms Corina Logan Evergreen State (Washington) Arlington, WA
Mr Andrew Lynch University of Kentucky Williamsburg, KY
Miss Galina Mardilovich New York University New York, NY
Mr Andrew Marin Georgia Institute of Technology Plano, TX
Miss Margaret McCarthy University of Toronto Ottawa, Canada
Mr Michael McMahon United States Military Academy Farmingville, NY
Ms Ramona Meyricke Australian National University Perth, Australia
Ms Barbara Miltner University of Michigan Foster City, CA
Ms Silvia Montano Palomino University of Cambridge Haninge, Sweden
Mr Oded Naaman Hebrew University Yarkona, Israel
Mr Samuel Nartey University of Cambridge Hohoe, Ghana
Miss Chawita Netirojjanakul Massachusetts Institute of Technology Bangkok, Thailand
Mr Yifan Ng University of Cambridge Singapore
Miss Stella Nordhagen University of Washington Snowmass Village, CO
Ms Amber North Northwestern University Snohomish, WA
Mr Brendan O'Dwyer National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland
Mr Ji Yeol Oh University of Cambridge Joongangdong, Republic of Korea
Mr Matthew Oreska College of William and Mary Richmond, VA
Miss Aurelie Papon University of Cambridge Paris, France
Miss Meghana Patel Sheffield Hallam University Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
Mr Duc Phan University of Cambridge Hanoi, Vietnam
Miss Suzanne Pilaar Rutgers University Haledon, NJ
Miss Hannah Pincham University of Sydney Randwick, Australia
Mr Mateusz Plucinski Princeton University Morgantown, WV
Mr Shawn Powers Williams College Danvers, MA
Ms Surabhi Ranganathan New York University New Delhi, India
Mr Jayant Ravalia University of Cambridge Kisumu, Kenya
Mr Robert Rose United States Military Academy Los Angeles, CA
Mrs Jennifer Saari University of Cambridge Turku, Finland
Miss Sukanya Sarbadhikary Jawaharlal Nehru University Kolkata, India
Mr Jaya Savige University of Queensland Bribie Island, Australia
Mr Jeremiah Schwarz University of Cambridge New York, NY
Miss Susanne Schweizer Maastricht University Kriens, Switzerland
Miss Elizabeth Sefton University of Chicago Jacksonville, FL
Miss Jessica Shang Harvard University Silver Spring, MD
Mr Chander Shekhar Sharma Indian Institute of Science - Bangalore Patiala, Punjab, India
Mr Murat Siviloglu University of the Bosphorus Istanbul, Turkey
Mr Pawel Sledz Warsaw University Mierzyn, Poland
Mr William Smiley University of Utah Portage, WI
Mr Brian Spatocco Rutgers University Washington Township, NJ
Mr Philip Strik University of Oxford Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Mr Garth Strohbehn University of Iowa Ames, IA
Mr Satish Subramanian University of Pennsylvania Lusaka, Zambia
Miss Wee Zi Tan University of York Singapore
Miss Yvonne Tew Harvard University Selangor, Malaysia
Mr Rishi Wadhera Mayo Clinic College of Medicine Rochester, MN
Mr Yingqi Wang University of Cambridge Shanghai, China
Miss Tara Westover Brigham Young University Clifton, ID