University Scholars Program

	Paidamoyo Ash-girl Chapfuwa (Pratt) is a native of Bulawayo , Zimbabwe . She attended high school at Mpopoma High in Bulawayo through 2007. She left Zimbabwe to complete the International Baccalaureate program through Pestalozzi International Village at Hastings College of Arts and Technology in the UK . Paidamoyo was the Zimbabwe Junior chess champion and continued to play chess at Pestalozzi. She also served as an apprentice for the Visionary Soap Company, a fair trade company that helps families in developing countries to send their children to school. At Duke, Paidamoyo is interested in studying engineering, mathematics, and business and hopes to return to Zimbabwe to use her engineering degree to help her community.
	Kanchan Chauhan (Pratt) hails from Sunsari , Nepal where she attended the Budhanilkantha School in Kathmandu , a government designated National School of Nepal. She completed her high school education in the UK through the International Baccalaureate program through Pestalozzi International Village at Hastings College of Arts and Technology. She is an avid swimmer and runner and is committed to community service. As secretary of the Rotoract Club and UNYSA, Kanchan helped raise funds to volunteer during the summer at her village school in Nepal , encouraging awareness of global warming and environmental hazards in the community. Kanchan intends to study electrical engineering, political science, environmental studies and anthropology at Duke and hopes to return to Nepal to work in the Ministry of Environment, Science, and Technology.
	Amy Flis (Pratt) is a graduate of Carmel High School in Carmel, Indiana, where she served as editor-in-chief of the school newspaper, treasurer of Key Club, and principal member of the Central Indiana Dance Ensemble, a not-for-profit ballet company. She has worked summers as a kennel assistant at a veterinary hospital and as a substitute instructor at her dance studio. Amy plans to continue dancing at Duke, while plunging into biomedical engineering. After spending her most recent summer in China , she also plans to study Chinese and pursue the Global Health certificate. She hopes to eventually work and research in veterinary medicine.
	Bora Kang (Trinity) was born in South Korea and came to the U.S. at age 8, settling with her family in McDonough , Ga. Bora graduated from Union Grove High School , where she was very active in several community service organizations, including serving as founder and president of her school's chapter of the Key Club. She also received awards for her roles as witness and attorney in Mock Trial. In addition, she plays the flute and joined the Clayton State University Ensemble in her first year of high school. An avid researcher, Bora won 4 th place at the Intel International Science Fair for her research exploring the bactericidal and antiseptic properties of honey. At Duke, she plans to continue her research in science and to major in chemistry and to pursue her interests in law and music, whether in the classroom or extracurricularly.
	Samuel Chun Chit Lai (Trinity) is a Hong Konger who spent his last two years studying in a place for which Google Map is unable to provide a satellite imagery of the region (at the closet zoom level) that bears the school's zip code. The last character of his Chinese name contains the word philosophy - and Chun Chit is planning to study Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Duke, but he has yet to finish reading any books on philosophy with the exception of perhaps "Sophie's World." He dreams of creating an ancient Martial Arts world with an epic scale of Peter Jackson's Middle-Earth, but in reality he cannot even manage to scoop a sphere of frozen chocolate ice cream, let alone perform "taekwondo." He is not particularly fond of shopping, evidenced by his finger-countable times of visits to Wal-mart in his last two years, but loses a considerable amount of control when he enters a bookstore. However, just like people who buy clothes that had only been worn once during purchase, Chun Chit too often buys books that remain gathering dust on his shelves. Hence until today he oscillates between an agony of apprehending the scale of his ignorance and a bliss of realizing the scope of the secretive beauty the world holds, which he has still yet to discover.
	Maggie Love (Trinity) received her I.B. Diploma from North Mecklenburg High School in Charlotte, North Carolina . She played 1 st violin in the UNCC Youth Orchestra and was committed to community service. As a student ambassador for the Echo Foundation, Maggie and other ambassadors visited Holocaust sites in Europe and met with Elie Wiesel and donated art supplies and shoes to children in Rwanda , the Echo Foundation's current focus. She has a wide range of intellectual interests including neuroscience, chemistry, French, Spanish, and creative writing. She hopes to study medicine and writing and use her skills to benefit under-served areas of the world and to write about health and social issues in developing nations.
	Dhrusti Patel (Trinity) was born in Nairobi , Kenya and came to the U.S. in 2001 where she graduated from South Forsyth High School in Cumming , Georgia . Fluent in Gujarati and English, Dhrusti also studied Latin and Spanish, and received awards in both languages in high school. She also won regional and state awards with her teammates on the math team as well as in Science Olympiad and served as president of Mu Alpha Theta, the national math honors society. Dhrusti also helped raise funds for Project Nicaragua to build houses for the homeless in Chacraseca. She is interested in studying pre-medicine, foreign languages and literature, and philosophy at Duke and hopes to return to Kenya to serve as a "doctor without borders."
	Silvia Seceleanu (Trinity) hails from Cluj-Napoca, Romania. She has won awards in English, history, computer science and political essay competitions. She was active in the school debate club, Habitat for Humanity Romania, and was team captain of the Romanian national high school championship basketball team for 5 years. She intends to study political science and economics at Duke, with a focus on international relations. Silvia hopes to return to Romania to become a prominent woman politician and to improve Romanian political life or else to work as a policy analyst in an international organization to help create sustainable economic policies for developing countries.