Northwestern University alumnus Daniel Ginzburg has received a 2022 Gates Cambridge Scholarship, which identifies and supports outstanding scholars in their work to improve the lives of people across the world.
A 2013 graduate of Northwestern, Ginzburg studied Earth and Planetary sciences to better understand the fundamental processes underpinning the natural environment and how modern society has pushed those processes to the brink of collapse.
“I learned one of the greatest sources of unsustainable natural resource consumption is modern agriculture,” he said. “This was an auspicious realization, as the study of agriculture overlaps with many interesting disciplines from nutrition to environmental sustainability to biotechnology.”
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Image: Daniel Ginzburg will study plant sciences in Cambridge. (Credit: Northwestern University)