Two Duke seniors win scholarships

Two Duke University seniors have earned scholarships for graduate study in the United Kingdom.

Sally Liu and Dan Roberts are among 40 winners of the Marshall Scholarship, an annual award established in 1953 to commemorate the Marshall Plan.

Liu, of San Diego, is a pre-med student. She plans to study public health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the London School of Economics.

Liu plans to return to medical school after earning master’s degrees in public health and health policy, planning and financing.

Roberts, of Melville, N.Y., majors in both physics and electrical and computer engineering, and minors in mathematics. He will be earning a Certificate of Advanced Study in mathematics at the University of Cambridge. He then plans to work with Sir John Pendry.

“I am excited and honored to have the chance to work with Professor Pendry, who is the foremost authority of the field I study -- transformational optics,” Roberts said. “I couldn’t imagine a better research opportunity than to work in an emerging field with one of its leading investigators.”