Harvard Cambridge Scholarship winners of 2016

The four winners will begin study in the other Cambridge this fall.

Four seniors have won Harvard Cambridge Scholarships to study at Cambridge University during the 2016-2017 academic year. Alona Bach of Berkeley, California, and Cabot House, a history and science concentrator, will be the Lionel De Jersey Harvard Scholar at Emmanuel College; Vivek Banerjee, of Studio City, California, and Dunster House, a social studies concentrator, will be the William Shirley Scholar at Pembroke College; Ramya Rangan, of Los Altos Hills, California, and Currier House, a joint concentrator in computer science and mathematics, will be the Charles Henry Fiske III Scholar at Trinity College; and Tamara Fernando of Colombo, Sri Lanka, and Adams House, a history and literature concetrator, will be the John Eliot Scholar at Jesus College.

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