UCSD Student Awarded Gates
Scholarship To Study In England

March 5, 2007

By Jan Jennings

Eviatar Yemini, a student at the University of California, San Diego, has been awarded a 2007 Gates Cambridge Scholarship and will begin graduate studies at the University of Cambridge, England. He is one of 48 candidates from the United States to receive the award.

Yemini, from New York City, will join young men and women from throughout the world to study arts, science, humanities, social science, technology, and medicine.

The Gates Cambridge Scholarships were begun in 2001 by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. “We need highly educated leaders, skilled in research and analysis, who will undertake a creative approach to defining and solving problems so that we can address the injustices and inequities around our world,” said founder Bill Gates. “Gates Cambridge Scholarships give young people an opportunity to develop and refine such skills.”

In the first six years of the program 621 students from 78 countries have taken scholarships at Cambridge. Currently, the Gates Cambridge Scholarship program has students from 56 countries.

For further information on the Gates Cambridge Scholarship program, visit the website at www.gates.scholarships.cam.ac.uk.

 

Media Contact: Jan Jennings, 858-8224-1684