Two from MIT named 2025 Gates Cambridge Scholars

MIT elderly Markey Freudenburg-Puricelli and current alumna Abigail (” Abbie”) Schipper ’24 have actually been picked as Gates Cambridge Scholars and will certainly start graduate researches this autumn in the area of their option at Cambridge College in the U.K.

Currently commemorating its 25th year, the Gates Cambridge program gives totally moneyed post-graduate scholarships to superior candidates from nations beyond the U.K. The objective of Gates Cambridge is to develop a worldwide network of future leaders devoted to transforming the globe right.

Trainees thinking about putting on Gates Cambridge must call Kim Benard, associate dean of recognized fellowships in Job Advising and Expert Growth.

Markey Freudenburg-Puricelli

Freudenburg-Puricelli is learning Planet, climatic, and worldly scientific researches and minoring in Spanish. Her enthusiasm for geoscience has actually led her to take a trip to various edges of the globe to carry out geologic fieldwork. These experiences have actually encouraged her to seek a profession in creating clinical plan and ecological guideline that can shield those most susceptible to environment modification. As a Gates Cambridge Scholar, she will certainly seek an MPhil in ecological plan.

Coming To MIT, Freudenburg-Puricelli signed up with the Terrascope first-year knowing neighborhood, which concentrates on hands-on education and learning associating with worldwide ecological concerns. She after that ended up being an undergraduate study aide in the McGee Laboratory for Paleoclimate and Geochronology, where she collected and analyzed information made use of to comprehend environment attributes of ice throughout north Canada.

Complying with a summer season teaching fellowship in Chile looking into volcanoes at the Universidad Católica del Norte, Freudenburg-Puricelli signed up with the Gehring Laboratory for Plant Genes, Epigenetics, and Seed Biology. Last summer season, she took a trip to Peru to deal with the Division of Paleontology at the Universidad Nacional de Piura, carrying out fieldwork and preserving and arranging fossil samplings. Freudenburg-Puricelli has actually likewise done fieldwork on sedimentology in New Mexico, geological mapping in the Mojave Desert, and area oceanography onboard the SSV Corwith Cramer.

On school, Freudenburg-Puricelli is a passionate glassblower and has actually been a mentor aide at the MIT glassblowing laboratory. She is likewise a tourist guide for the MIT Workplace of Admissions and has actually offered with the Division of Planet, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences’ first-year pre-orientation program.

Abigail “Abbie” Schipper ’24

Initially from Rose City, Oregon, Schipper finished from MIT with a BS in mechanical design and a small in biology. At Cambridge, she will certainly seek an MPhil in design, looking into clinical gadgets made use of in pre-hospital injury systems in reduced- and middle-income nations with the Cambridge Health and wellness Solutions Style team.

At MIT, Schipper belonged to MIT Emergency situation Medical Solutions, offering on the rescue and acting as the heartsafe police officer and supervisor of rescue procedures. Influenced by her operate in mouth-to-mouth resuscitation education and learning, she aided produce the LifeSaveHer job, which intends to lower the sex difference in out-of-hospital heart attack survival results with the development of women mouth-to-mouth resuscitation mannequins and linked study. This group was the first-place champion of the 2023 PKG Concepts Competitors and a recipient of the Eloranta Research Study Fellowship.

Schipper’s job has actually likewise concentrated on creating clinical gadgets for low-resource or severe settings. As an undergraduate, she did study in the laboratory of Teacher Giovanni Traverso, where she dealt with a job creating a medication distribution dental implant for areas with restricted accessibility to surgical treatment. Throughout a summer season teaching fellowship at the College University London Collaborative Facility for Addition Health and wellness, she collaborated with the U.K.’s National Health and wellness Solution to produce resilient, inexpensive co2 sensing units to approximate the threat of air-borne transmittable condition transmission in sanctuaries for individuals experiencing being homeless.

After college graduation, Schipper interned at legend Area Style with MISTI Denmark, creating life support group for an undersea environment that will certainly be made use of for astronaut training and oceanographic study.

Schipper belonged to the Rout knowing neighborhood, Sigma Kappa Sorority, and her living team, Burton 3rd. In her downtime, she appreciates dealing with bikes and playing the piano.