Tag: Gates Cambridge Scholars

From high school dropout to U.S. Gates Cambridge scholar

Once a dropout, now a Cal grad and elite scholar with photos

April 16, 2013:

Justin Park dropped out of high school, but he never lost his love of literature and learning. After 20 years as a bartender, bike messenger and military man, Park returned to school at UC Berkeley, graduated — and now has been selected as a Gates Cambridge Scholar, a top world honor.

Four from Berkeley win prestigious Gates Cambridge Scholarships

February 22, 2012:

Forty young U.S. scholars — four of them with a UC Berkeley pedigree — have been named to receive the 2012 Gates Cambridge Scholarship, a prestigious award that pays the full cost of a graduate degree in any field of study at Cambridge University.