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The Gazette: McGill grads Rachel Dokter, Yang Li and Sam Walker awarded Bill Gates scholarships to Cambridge

Published: 9 April 2010

A music historian, a law student and a computational scientist from McGill are among five Canadians and 80 students worldwide awarded scholarships from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to study at the University of Cambridge next year. Rachel Dokter, Samuel Walker and Yang Li were chosen from more than 7,250 applicants for the Gates Scholars program, which allows post graduate students with strong social leadership skills to spend a year focusing on topics of special personal interest. The scholarship covers the full cost of study at Cambridge.

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