Two New Yorkers Win 2007 Gates Scholarships
Two students from New York City are among 48 Americans selected to be Gates scholars in 2007.
Eviatar Yemini, a Computational Neurobiology Ph.D. student at the University of California, San Diego, and Kathryn Tabb, who graduated from the University of Chicago in 2006, were chosen from a field of about 650 applicants.
Ms. Yemini, who is from Manhattan, will study muscle paralysis in C. elegans, a millimeter-long worm, with the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology.
Ms. Tabb, also from Manhattan, will research the philosophy of psychiatry and clinical psychology.
The scholarships were created in 2000 by the world's richest charity, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Similar to the Rhodes and Marshall, the Gates Scholarship provides funding for graduate study at Cambridge University in England.
