2020 Harvard Cambridge Scholars

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Four seniors have won Harvard-Cambridge Scholarships to study at Cambridge University during the 2020-21 academic year. 

Fernanda Baron, of Lowell House, a sociology concentrator with a secondary field in the studies of women, gender, and sexuality, will be the Governor William Shirley Scholar at Pembroke College. Caroline Engelmayer, of Currier House, a classics concentrator, will be the Lionel de Jersey Harvard Scholar at Emmanuel College. Juan Carlos Fernandez del Castillo, of Mather House, a mathematics concentrator, will be the John Eliot Scholar at Jesus College. Bilal Nadeem, of Quincy House, a human developmental and regenerative biology concentrator with a secondary field in global health and health policy and a language citation in modern standard Arabic, will be the Charles H. Fiske III Scholar at Trinity College.

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