Aberdeen born Dr Sarah Little is busily preparing to fly off to New York in August thanks to her success in winning the prestigious Saint Andrew’s Society of the State of New York Scholarship.
The Society offers only two scholarships per year, valued at $15,000 each, and the competition is open to students with a Scottish background who have graduated for the first time from a Scottish university, or from Oxford and Cambridge, in the year of the Award. Each University vets its own applicants and then nominates one to go forward to the final selection.
Dr Little, a former pupil of St Margaret’s School for Girls in Aberdeen, is keen to specialise in surgery and she will spend her year at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan, within the Department of Hepatobilliary Surgery (cancer of the liver and pancreas).
Dr Little said: “I was honoured and delighted to win this scholarship.
“My goal is to have a career in surgery. The year I will spend at the Cancer Centre will be a tremendous opportunity to learn new skills and extend my knowledge of the use of surgery in treating liver and pancreatic cancer. While there, I will also doing an MSc degree.”
The aim of the Scholarship is to strengthen relationships between Scottish universities and New York State. The Selection Committee this year comprised The Rt Hon. Viscount Leckie KT KCVO TD DL, Chairman, The Royal Bank of Scotland; Lord Cameron of Lochbroom, Senator of the College of Justice in Scotland and former Lord Advocate; Mr Peter Mackay CB, Former Secretary/Chief Executive, Scottish Office Industry Department; Professor John Archer FREng FRSE, Principal and Vice Chancellor of Heriot-Watt University; and Professor Andrew Miller CBE PhD FRSE, Principal and Vice Chancellor of the University of Stirling
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