Six Indians get Gates Cambridge Scholarship

LONDON: Six Indian students are among 54 students from 28 countries selected as Gates Cambridge Scholars and will begin their postgraduate courses at the University of Cambridge from October, the university announced on Friday.

The 54 successful candidates were selected from a total pool of 3,535 applicants on the basis of their intellectual ability, leadership capacity, academic fit with Cambridge, and their commitment to improving the lives of others.

The six Indian students are: Asiya Islam, who will do a PhD in Sociology; Sridhar Rajan Jagannathan, for PhD in Psychology; Shraddha Kaur, for PhD in Psychology; Ananthanarayanan Kumar, for a PhD in Bio Science; Saba Sharma, for a PhD in Geography; and Sneha Shashidhara, for a PhD in Biological Science.

The subject of research covers the range from aortic aneurysms, breast cancer and childhood leukaemia to sexual violence in India, bilingualism and autism, identity and nationhood in Ukrainian modernist writing and sustainable development. HTC