UBC alumna Genevieve Barrons has been selected as one of 39 new Gates Cambridge Scholars who will take up a Gates Cambridge Scholarship to study at the University of Cambridge, England, this fall. Barrons will pursue a master’s degree in education. She ran a summer camp and volunteered at a school working on education related projects in Malawi, and currently, she is working as an editor at a community newsletter in Shanghai. She is the eighth UBC student or alumnus to be awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship since the program began in 2001. For more on Barrons, click here.
