Pitt Honors College Student Wins Churchill Scholarship!

Pitt Honors College student Clayton Magill, an Arts and Sciences (A&S) student majoring in geology with a minor in German, has been named a Churchill Scholar by the Winston Churchill Foundation for his exceptional ability and outstanding academic achievement.

This is the first year the University was invited to participate in the Churchill Scholarship competition. Magill, Pitt's only nominee, was one of 11 U.S. students and the only one from a Pennsylvania university selected for the award. He is interested in the multidisciplinary paleoenvironmental study of lake sediments from the Limnes Basin in Western Crete and plans to study the Quaternary Science coursework at the University of Cambridge's Churchill College.