A senior chemistry student at UW-Madison has been selected as one of 14 Americans to win a Churchill scholarship, one of the most prestigious scholarships in higher education.
Green Bay native Joshua Shutter will be heading to the University of Cambridge in England to pursue a master of philosophy in chemistry degree, according to a news release from the university.
With the Churchill scholarship awarded to a UW-Madison student, the university is one of only four American universities to have Churchill, Rhodes and Marshall scholars in the same year. The other three are Harvard, Princeton and Georgia Tech.
“The potential to perform research alongside esteemed faculty was one of the primary reasons why I chose to attend UW-Madison,” Shutter said in the news release.
“Overall, the ability to perform research early on in my undergraduate career both motivated me and opened a variety of opportunities, from NASA to the Churchill scholarship, that would have seemed unimaginable to me four years ago.”