WILLIAMSBURG, Va., Feb. 23 -- William and Mary issued the following news release:

In her first year at William & Mary, Kate Carline '26 was already thinking strategically about how she could chart a path toward a career in biotechnology that could serve communities.

"Her first week on campus, she asked me how she should prepare herself for graduate studies," remembers Dan Cristol, chancellor professor of biology and director of the 1693 Scholars Program. "She was 17!"

Now that forethought, persistence and commitment has paid off royally for Carline, who is the first-ever William & Mary student to win a Churchill Scholarship for one year of graduate study at the University of Cambridge.

Carline is one of only two students this year to re...