PHILADELPHIA - University of Pennsylvania senior Janine Alix Rogers is among 48 U.S. students awarded 2007 Gates Cambridge Scholarships.

The seventh annual contingent of new Gates Scholars, selected from around the world, will begin graduate studies in England at the University of Cambridge in October.

Rogers, of Laie, Hawaii, who will graduate from Penn's School of Arts and Sciences with a double major in health and societies and in philosophy, will pursue a master's degree in the history, philosophy and sociology of science, medicine and technology at Cambridge.

She follows 14 earlier Penn graduates who have been awarded Gates Cambridge Scholarships since the program began in 2001.

"We are very happy and not the least surprised that Alix Rogers has been named a Gates Cambridge Scholar this year," Arthur D. Casciato, director of Penn's Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships, said.  

"What distinguishes the Gates from other prestigious awards for graduate study in the United Kingdom is that it emphasizes the match between a candidate's qualifications and ambitions and a particular program, and Cambridge's MPhil in History, Philosophy and Sociology of Science, Technology and Medicine is a perfect fit for Alix who, taking up the important challenge that bioethics presents, has consistently demonstrated the kind of academic excellence and commitment to creative problem-solving that the Gates Cambridge Scholarship seeks to honor."