Princeton University seniors Mikaela Gerwin and Rachel Linfield have been awarded Gates Cambridge Scholarships. The awards give outstanding students from outside the United Kingdom the opportunity to pursue postgraduate study at the University of Cambridge. The program was established in 2000 by a donation from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to Cambridge to build a global network of future leaders committed to improving the lives of others.

A transformative gift from an alumni couple will enable Princeton to expand its Bridge Year program, which allows a group of incoming undergraduate students to spend their first two semesters as Princetonians engaged in community service abroad. The gift from Michael Novogratz of the Class of 1987 and Sukey Cáceres Novogratz of the Class of 1989 will allow the program — now known as the Novogratz Bridge Year Program — to offer its life-changing experiences to more students.

Princeton University senior Ryan Chen, a mathematics major who is planning to pursue a Ph.D. in mathematics with the goal of entering academia, has been selected as one of this year’s Churchill Scholars. Chen is one of 16 scholarship winners who will spend a year studying at the University of Cambridge while living at Churchill College, the only college at Cambridge focused on STEM subjects.