UW-Madison has its first prestigious Churchill scholarship winner in 30 years.
Daniel Lecoanet, a Madison native whoâ??s been involved in chemistry and mathematical research on campus since high school, is one of only 14 Churchill scholars from America this year, with five of the U.S. scholars coming from public universities.
He will spend the 2010-11 academic year at Cambridge University in England, in the historic math program that has produced such luminaries as Sir Isaac Newton and William Thomson, Lord Kelvin.