Mississippi State University senior biology major Lucas Ferguson just got a free ride to study the evolution of viruses at the University of Cambridge in England.
The Batesville native is one of only 36 Americans -- and the first ever MSU student -- to receive a Gates Cambridge scholarship, which pays students' full tuition for masters programs at one of the world's oldest and most premier universities. For Ferguson, that means researching for a year in the heart of the "Silicon Valley" of bio-
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