Senior adds prestigious Marshall Scholarship to string of academic honors

Claire Evensen, the daughter of a physician and an engineering physics professor, says she sometimes feels like her college major was predestined.

“From a young age, my parents instilled in me this attitude that science is cool,” she says.

As an undergraduate at UW–Madison, Evensen has excelled in biochemistry and mathematics, winning numerous honors for her academic work and original research. Her latest award is the most prestigious yet: a Marshall Scholarship.

Read the full story originally written by Doug Erickson.