A St. James native recently received the scholarship to study cancer research in Italy this fall. Alexa DeAngelis, a member of the 2008 graduating class of Harbor Country Day School and a graduate of St. Anthony’s High School and Georgetown University, was recently granted a Fulbright scholarship to study at Sapienza-Universita di Roma in Rome, beginning in October 2017.

As a biochemistry major at Georgetown, DeAngelis was a member of the chemistry club and of the Georgetown University Research Opportunities Program.