Humboldt State University Outstanding Student Cheng Du Awarded Premier Fellowship
Humboldt State University(HSU) Alum Cheng Du is among 30 recipients of the prestigious Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans, the premier graduate school fellowship for immigrants and children of immigrants. The recipients were selected for their potential to make significant contributions to U.S society, culture, or their academic field, and were selected from a pool of nearly 1,450 applicants.
With a two percent acceptance rate, it was the most competitive year in the Fellowship’s history. Each will receive up to $90,000 in funding for the graduate program of their choice.
Born and raised in Zhengzhou, China, Cheng Du went to HSU from Henan University (HENU) as an exchange student. Today, he’s a medical student and Ph.D. candidate in the Weill Cornell/Rockefeller U/Sloan Kettering Tri-Institutional M.D.-Ph.D. program.
The Paul & Daisy Soros fellowship is among Cheng’s long list of academic, scholarly and entrepreneurial accomplishments.
As an undergraduate at HSU, Cheng published papers in 11 peer-reviewed journals—four of which he was the first-author. He then received a fellowship for his tick-borne disease research, completed an internship at the Forsyth Institute of Harvard University School of Dental Medicine, was named an HSU Outstanding Student in 2011, and he was a first-place winner in the CSU Research Competition in 2013.
