Princeton senior Joshua Yang awarded Gates Cambridge Scholarship

Princeton University senior Joshua Yang has been awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship. The awards recognize U.S. students for ”outstanding academic achievement” and “social leadership,” and cover the full cost of a postgraduate degree at the University of Cambridge, according to the prize announcement.

The program was established in 2000 by a donation to the school from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation “to build a global network of future leaders committed to improving the lives of others.” Yang, who is from Palo Alto, California, is among 35 U.S. winners of the scholarship who will join the 25th anniversary cohort. 

He is a philosophy major with a minor in journalism and plans to pursue an MPhil in Modern South Asian Studies at Cambridge in preparation for a career as a journalist. He hopes to begin his career reporting from India or Pakistan. This summer, he will be interning at the international desk of The Washington Post covering foreign breaking news.

While at Princeton, Yang has published articles on India, Israel and Hong Kong in media outlets including Foreign Policy, The Nation and the LA Review of Books, among others. His international experiences have included a Streicker Fellowship in New Delhi, a semester at the University of Oxford, a Dale Summer Award for a project in Hong Kong, and a fall break trip to Berlin for the journalism course “Migration Reporting.”

Read the full announcement on the University's homepage.