Senior named Churchill Scholar
A Harvard senior has been named a Churchill Scholar, one of 14 students nationwide who will be awarded one year of postgraduate study at the University of Cambridge in the fields of sciences, mathematics, or engineering. “I haven’t been abroad to Europe that much, and I’m excited about the opportunity to study at Cambridge and do some traveling,” said Tony Feng ’13. “There are about 200 other people in my program (at Cambridge), so in my mind, it’s a great chance to experience a new part of the world and meet people from very different backgrounds.” Feng will complete a master of advanced study in theoretical mathematics with a special interest in analysis, differential geometry, and physics, all subjects that relate to his work in algebraic geometry and number theory. “It’s good to have a broad knowledge of math,” Feng said. “If you jump into research, you can go very deep and become...