UMass Senior Awarded the Churchill Scholarship for Study in U.K.'s Cambridge University

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University of Massachusetts Amherst senior Edridge D’Souza is one of 15 undergraduates nationwide to earn a prestigious 2019 Churchill Scholarship for a year of post-graduate study in genetics at the University of Cambridge in England. 

The international scholarship targets bright young minds with the potential to advance knowledge and discovery in science, math and engineering. D’Souza, 21, a biochemistry and molecular biology major, math minor and member of the Commonwealth Honors College from Shrewsbury, became the second Churchill Scholar from UMass Amherst, which awards more undergraduate STEM degrees than any other college or university in the Commonwealth.

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