Emaline Laney, a former student of Duke Kunshan University’s Global Learning Semester program and a senior at Agnes Scott College, has recently been awarded a Marshall Scholarship, a highly competitive and prestigious academic program for outstanding American students to study in the United Kingdom.
A public health and chemistry double major at Agnes Scott, Laney spent one semester at Duke Kunshan as an international undergraduate student. She was one of the program’s inaugural class when Duke Kunshan first opened in Fall 2014. During her time at Duke Kunshan, Laney took several courses in the field of global health and actively led and participated in extracurricular activities and field trips to local communities. She believes that her experience of studying at Duke Kunshan has helped her to build ‘the knowledge base and motivation to succeed in her next steps.’
‘Emaline was an outstanding student in Global Health Ethics here at Duke Kunshan University. I’ve had the pleasure of recommending her for next steps in her education,’ said Jeffrey Moe, Professor of the Practice of Global Health at Duke Global Health Institute and Duke Kunshan University, ‘I’m using her final paper as an example for current students in the class to emulate.’
‘We are proud to have learned that one of our early students has won this prestigious Marshall award,’ said Denis Simon, Executive Vice Chancellor at Duke Kunshan University. “Our intention is to recruit more and more top-tier students like Emaline, students who have a pioneering spirit and who want to build bridges across borders and cultures as part of their own educational agenda.”
According to British Consul General Jeremy Pilmore-Bedford, Emaline Laney was selected as a recipient of the Marshall Scholarship for her excellent knowledge, broad record of leadership achievements and her thoughtfulness on building the trans-Atlantic relationship. Laney’s exceptional achievements and talent helped her stand out among a pool of strong candidates and won her the recognition from the Marshall Scholarship Commission.
The Marshall Scholarship is one of the most selective graduate fellowships available to American undergraduates, with 3.2% of 970 university-endorsed applicants ultimately securing the scholarship in 2015. This scholarship program is aimed to strengthen the enduring relationship between the British and American people, governments and institutions via financing young American scholars to study at any university in the UK.
Laney will head to England to study epidemiology and control of infectious diseases at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, which will prepare her to become a physician-researcher in the field of global health.
Watch Emaline’s sharing of her experience ar Duke Kunshan:
