Will Motley earns Marshall Scholarship
Will Motley, a Middlebury College senior majoring in biochemistry, is one of 43 American students awarded Marshall Scholarships to study at a university in Britain next year. The 2006 awards were announced on Nov. 28.
Motley, a native of Brooklyn, New York, has spent the past five summers at the Mount Desert Island Biological Lab in Maine, researching chloride transport through the protein that is defective in patients with cystic fibrosis. For his thesis work at Middlebury, he has recognized a gene that controls meiosis in mice and causes sterility if it is mutant. Since his sophomore year, he has worked as an emergency medical technician with the Middlebury Volunteer Ambulance Association. At Oxford, he plans to pursue a doctorate in molecular biology, producing animal models for a human disease and using them to test potential therapies.
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Marshall Scholar studies at Oxford
Spring 2005: Aliza Watters graduated summa cum laude from Middlebury in February 2005. In the fall of 2004, she was one of 43 American students awarded Marshall Scholarships for study in Britain. Watters, from Old Brookville, New York, on Long Island, was an English major at Middlebury, and attended the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in the summer of 2002. She spent January to May 2003 in the Czech Republic, studying Central and Eastern European literature. She is using her Marshall Scholarship at Oxford University, where in the fall of '05 she embarked on two consecutive one-year masters programs in English, the first in 20th century English literature and the second in European literature.
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