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Angela Harper named Gates Cambridge Scholar
April 19, 2018 | Admissions, Recognition, Scholars, Student, Top Stories
Angela Harper (’17), a physics student already pursuing a master’s degree at the University of Cambridge as Wake Forest’s first Churchill Scholar, has been selected for the Gates Cambridge Scholarship to earn her Ph.D. at the distinguished British institution.
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Mathematics student named Goldwater Scholar
April 13, 2018 | Admissions, Recognition, Scholars, Student, Top Stories
Dylan King, a sophomore mathematics and computer science major from Walnut Cove, N.C., has been named a 2018 Barry S. Goldwater Scholar. King was selected as one of 211 students from around the country to receive the award for the 2018-19 academic year.
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Angela Harper named Churchill Scholar
January 26, 2017 | Scholars, Student, Top Stories
Wake Forest senior Angela Harper has been named one of 15 Churchill Scholars who will study at the University of Cambridge for the academic year 2017-18. She is the first Wake Forest student to receive this highly selective award.
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Juniors win Truman, Beinecke Scholarships
April 21, 2016 | Scholars, Student, Top Stories
WFU juniors have won two of the most prestigious scholarships for graduate study in the country: the Truman Scholarship and the Beinecke Scholarship.
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Students awarded Gates Cambridge Scholarships
April 7, 2015 | Mentoring, Research, Scholars, School of Medicine, Student, Top Stories
Wake Forest University senior Abdulmalik Obaid has earned the prestigious Gates Cambridge Scholarship, which sends recipients to the University of Cambridge in England to pursue a full-time postgraduate degree.
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O’Connell named Rhodes Scholar
November 24, 2013 | Alumni, For Alumni, For Parents, National, Recognition, Scholars, Student, Top Stories
Wake Forest graduate James M. O’Connell has been named a Rhodes Scholar. O’Connell, who is from Tampa, Fla., graduated summa cum laude in May 2013 with a bachelor of arts in politics and international affairs. He plans to complete a masters in public policy.
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Chemistry major named Goldwater Scholar
April 16, 2013 | For Alumni, For Parents, National, Recognition, Scholars, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Alec Christian, a junior from Salem, Conn., who studies organic chemistry, was recently awarded a Goldwater Scholarship. Christian was selected as one of 271 math, science and engineering students from around the country to receive the award for the 2013-2014 school year.
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Lyons named Truman Scholar
March 30, 2012 | Recognition, Scholars, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Wake Forest junior J’Taime Lyons of Whitakers, N.C., is among a distinguished group of undergraduate students nationwide who have been named 2012 Truman Scholars by the Washington-based Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation.
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Turner named Rhodes Scholar
November 20, 2011 | For Alumni, For Parents, International, Recognition, Scholars, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Brandon Turner, a Wake Forest senior who studies biophysics and plays rugby, has been named a Rhodes Scholar. Turner, who is from Fontana, Calif., conducts research on the molecular structure of proteins.
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Alumnus named Pickering Fellow
July 5, 2011 | Alumni, For Alumni, For Parents, International, Pro Humanitate, Scholars, Top Stories
Bernardo Diaz (’07) has been named one of 40 Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellows for 2011. Fellows are selected by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation to prepare for careers in the United States foreign service corps.
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