HS East Senior Awarded Full Ride to Duke University

High School East senior Puja Bansal has been awarded an Angier B. Duke Memorial Scholarship from Duke University. 

Only eight high school seniors from across the country received the scholarship, which covers full tuition, room and board and mandatory fees for four years, as well as a six-week summer study program at the University of Oxford in England. 

Scholars are also offered up to $5,000 for research or other educational enrichment programs. Based on estimated tuition rates, the scholarship, awarded to students who show promise of being intellectual leaders, from the prestigious North Carolina school will be worth more than $200,000 to a student over a four-year period.

Earlier this year, Puja was named a semifinalist in the 2013 Intel Science Talent Search.