Optics senior wins Churchill Scholarship

Cerami

oren Cerami '02 has been selected to receive a prestigious Churchill Scholarship. Starting this fall, she will spend a year at Cambridge University's Churchill College, pursuing a master's degree in engineering. Cerami is the eighth Rochester student to receive a Churchill Scholarship since the University was invited to participate in the program in 1982.

The Churchill Foundation Scholarship Program is open to students at 63 participating institutions, which, in addition to the University, include such schools as Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Stanford, and Cornell. The scholarships are presented annually by the Winston Churchill Foundation of the United States, which makes approximately 10 awards of between $25,000 and $27,000 each for graduate study in engineering, mathematics, or science. Students are chosen on the basis of outstanding academic achievement, original and creative work, and character and concern for critical problems facing society.

Cerami will receive a bachelor of science degree in optics this May from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. While at Rochester, Cerami played for four years on the varsity women's soccer team. She is president of Tau Beta Pi, the engineering honor society, and works in the University's tutoring program.

After her year in England, Cerami will return to the United States to pursue a doctoral degree in optics, applied physics, or electrical engineering.

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