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Davis Winner Hatches Scholarship Plan
Desmond Rgwaringesu ’14
Photo by Randall Barton
To win the Davis Project for Peace, Desmond Rgwaringesu ’14 had to count his chickens before they hatched.
This summer he plans to return to his native Zimbabwe and raise chickens to support village kids going to school.
Now in its sixth year, Davis Projects for Peace awards $10,000 to undergraduates to implement grassroots projects that promote peace.
Having won the prize, Desmond will return to Gokomere, a myriad of villages scattered around a farm founded by Jesuit missionaries in the 19th century. The area is served by two primary schools and a Catholic high school where most of the students are boarders.
There is a serious achievement gap between those students whose families can afford to board them and the day-scholars that walk to school each day from home.
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Our Brilliant Students
With the flowering of the cherry trees on Eliot Circle comes the notice of the spring crop of student awards and fellowships. We salute the following Reed students for their scholarship, dedication and inventiveness.
Davis Projects for Peace
Two seniors in biochemistry and molecular biology, Gabe Butterfield '12 of Sedro-Woolley, Washington, and Michael Gonzales '12 of Round Rock, Texas, have designed a grassroots project in Nicaragua this summer for Davis Projects for Peace.
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Reedie Wins Gates Scholarship
Elizabeth Honor Wilder '11 has won a prestigious Gates Cambridge Scholarship, recognizing exceptional academic achievement and the capacity for leadership.
The award will allow Elizabeth to spend a year at Cambridge pursuing Victorian ideas about wardship, education, the family, and the individual.
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