Meena Venkataramanan â21 was named a member of the Gates Cambridge Scholarship Class of 2021 on Feb. 8, making her one of 24 U.S. citizens tapped to receive full funding for graduate studies at the University of Cambridge.
The Gates Cambridge Scholarship was established in 2000, after the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation furnished the University of Cambridge with a $210 million gift to sponsor the studies of at least 225 students at any given time.
Students selected for the scholarship must display âoutstanding intellectual ability,â âreasons for choice of course,â âa commitment to improving the lives of others,â âand leadership potential,â per the website.
Venkataramanan â a former Crimson News editor â is a joint concentrator in English and South Asian Studies with a secondary field in Ethnicity, Migration, Rights. She said she will pursue an M.Phil. in English Studies: Modern and Contemporary Literature at the University o