普林斯顿学子荣获盖茨剑桥奖学金，成为“盖茨学者”

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盖茨剑桥奖学金(Gates Cambridge Scholarship)是由比尔与美琳达·盖茨基金会(Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation)和剑桥大学于2000年10月共同设立的，从2001年开始颁发。所有获得盖茨奖学金的人被称为“盖茨学者”(Gates Scholars)，入选盖茨学者就像入选了剑桥大学的“尖子班”。盖茨奖学金在美国家喻户晓。众多常青藤院校毕业的优秀学子都希望成为“盖茨学者”。

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普林斯顿大学学子Shaffin Siddiqui 就获得了盖茨奖学金，有机会前往剑桥大学继续他的学业。那么要怎样成为盖茨学者呢?

盖茨剑桥奖学金的网站上，写着这么一段简短的话，来亮明他们的价值观: For intellectually outstanding postgraduate students with a capacity for leadership and a commitment to improving the lives of others.

关键词也就是学术优异，且富有领导力和社会责任感。这是他们遴选盖茨学者的标准，也是整个盖茨社区的主流价值观。下面一起来看一下这位优秀学子的分享吧。

Princeton University senior Shaffin Siddiqui has been awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship. 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.

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Siddiqui is among 23 U.S. winners of the scholarship. Around 80 scholarships are typically awarded each year, with international winners selected in the spring.

Siddiqui is from Dallas, Texas. He plans to pursue an MPhil in the history and philosophy of science and medicine at Cambridge, focusing on how a key socio-intellectual class in diasporic Muslim communities, the ulama (traditionally educated Islamic scholars), have engaged modern biomedicine and promoted varied paradigms and practices of health within Western Muslim populations.

“I intend to study the history of medicine in the modern Muslim world while deepening my understanding of the key methodologies, concepts and debates in the history and philosophy of science,” Siddiqui wrote in his personal statement for the award. “Specifically, I hope to contribute to the history of anti-vaccine, and, more generally, anti-biomedical sentiment in diasporic Muslim communities, particularly those in the U.S. and U.K.”

For his senior thesis, Siddiqui, a concentrator in history, is investigating how Islamic scholars and intellectuals from the Nation of Islam crafted particular narratives of health and healing as a form of cultural resistance.

“Shaffin has so many talents,” said Keith Wailoo, the Henry Putnam University Professor of History and Public Affairs. “He is a voracious learner with a sharp intellect. He writes beautifully and thinks imaginatively. His senior thesis, which explores the complex history of Black Muslim beliefs about health, disease, vaccines and the body, is daring, smart and adventurous. It has been a true pleasure working with such an astute, mature and promising young scholar.”

Siddiqui worked with Wailoo as a research assistant, investigating social and intellectual responses to 19th- and 20th-century American epidemics using documents from the National Institutes of Health digital archives.

From 2019-21, he executed multiple clinical projects using patient data at Baylor University Medical Center under the supervision of Dr. William C. Roberts. The findings were presented at Baylor and published in various national journals of cardiology with Siddiqui as a coauthor.

A member and peer academic adviser in First College, Siddiqui is a former editor of the Princeton Historical Review and former editor and writer for Princeton Public Heath Review.

Siddiqui received the Stone/Davis Senior Thesis Funding Prize in Princeton’s Department of History, Young Chaplain Recognition from the Muslim Life Program, and the Shapiro Prize for Academic Excellence. He also is a recipient of the Confident Muslim Award from the Islamic Society of North America.

He has served as president of Princeton Muslim Student Association, as vice president and treasurer of Muslim Advocates for Social Justice, and is currently on the Princeton Rose Castle Society. He is a former board member of Students for Prison Education and Reform and a former member of the Religious Life Council.

Siddiqui volunteers as an academic adviser for Paper Airplanes, providing academic and professional advising via Zoom to Syrian refugees pursuing higher education and employment. He is also a volunteer for Princeton Peer Nightline and CONTACT of Mercer County, an emotional-health crisis intervention and suicide prevention hotline.

Siddiqui is a hafiz, having memorized the entire Quran verbatim in the Arabic, and has proficiency in both Arabic and Urdu. He publicly recites Quran for the Muslim Life Program every week before the Friday prayer in Murray-Dodge Hall, his favorite building on campus.

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