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Leila Haghighat

San Diego biology student wins prestigious Churchill Scholarship

UCSDnews: An undergraduate biology major at the University of California, San Diego has won a prestigious Churchill Scholarship to study at Cambridge University in the UK next year, one of only 14 students nationwide this year to receive the coveted honor.

Recipients are chosen based on academic accomplishments and demonstrated commitment to a career in science, engineering or mathematics, including substantial accomplishments in original research. Eight of 480 former Churchill Scholars have gone on to win a Nobel Prize.

Leila Haghighat, a senior biology major who will graduate this spring from UC San Diego after completing her coursework in three years, is the second student from UCSD to have won the Churchill Scholarship since the inception of the program in 1963. She will spend the next year working towards an M.Phil. degree in translational medicine and therapeutics at Cambridge University.

“Learning that I had been named a Churchill Scholar over the phone was incredibly surreal,” Haghighat said. “It felt like being in a reality TV show, but of the nerdy type. Cambridge has always been at the forefront of scientific research, while remaining rooted to its historical tradition. To study and work at the convergence of those two is an opportunity that I’m so thankful and excited to have.”

The Churchill Scholarship will cover Haghighat’s tuition fees and travel and provide a stipend. She will also be eligible for a $2,000 research grant to present her research findings abroad >>>

18-Feb-2011
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mahmoudg

congrats

by mahmoudg on

Well done.


Simorgh5555

Excellent

by Simorgh5555 on

Well done. My warmest congratulations to you and your family. 


Darius Kadivar

Congrats But Who is willing to be Iran's Churchill ?

by Darius Kadivar on

On a side Note irrelevant to this eminent lady whom I congratulate for her well deserved achievement I would like to make the following observation:

We already have a King in Exile but unlike the British who in times of crisis consider rallying the Flag behind their King in a common battle against tyranny, We Iranians in our individual megalomania behave the Opposite and look for any given Presidential wannabe as the next PREEEEEEEZIIIIIIIIIIDEEEEEEEEENT Mahboub !

Well Maybe from now on we should start looking at congratulating the individual success of a fellow Iranian by calling him or her our PRIIIIIIIIME MINIIIIIIIIIISTEEEEEEEEREH Mahboub.

How about that for a Change ? At least it would be more constructive than the destructive path we have been choosing for the past 3 Decades.

Congrats to Miss Leila Haghighat nevertheless ...

My observation is not directed to you but our Collective Self ... Or at least what is left of it:

Words For Eternity ...

Other than that all the best in your studies and Enjoy Your Stay in England the Last Genuine Land of Kings and Queens and Prime Ministers to be ...

Recommended watching:


Winston Churchill with King GeorgeVI giving a speech broadcast to the United States

 


siminkhanum

we are so proud

by siminkhanum on

Leila is my niece and we are all proud of her!