Lucia Calthorpe, C’16, of Berkeley, California, is one of the 35 Gates Cambridge Scholars selected this year from the US. She will graduate in May with a BA in health & societies, concentrating in public health. At the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, she plans to pursue an MPhil in epidemiology. She hopes to continue to investigate the potential for schools to function as a locus for health intervention, with a specific focus on mechanisms for preventing childhood obesity.

She will be joined by Morgan Seag, C’08, who earned her BA in political science with minors in African studies and French at Penn. Ms. Seag plans to pursue a PhD in polar studies at the University of Cambridge.