#  Former Undergraduate Fellow Craig McFarland Named Harvard-UK Fellow and Clarendon Scholar 

 





July 10, 2025

 

 

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Craig McFarland (right) holds his diploma.The Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics is proud to share that Craig McFarland ('25), a former Undergraduate Fellow and founder of the Undergraduate Ethics Society, has been named a Harvard-UK Fellow and Clarendon Scholar. This fall, Craig will pursue a one-year MSc in Neuroscience at the University of Oxford, continuing his academic journey focused on neuroscience, law, and ethics.

As a Harvard-UK Fellow, Craig received the Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship, which is "Awarded annually to one outstanding Harvard senior, providing one year of fully-funded study and living costs at any university in the British Commonwealth." Knox Fellows in particular are selected through a rigorous competitive process on the basis of "...future promise of leadership, strength of character, keen mind, balanced judgement and a devotion to the democratic ideal."

The Clarendon Scholarship, offered by the Clarendon Fund, provides full funding and a stipend for students to attend Oxford: "When selecting Clarendon scholars, the University has only one goal in mind: to choose the best students worldwide, as decided by experts in each student’s field."

During his time at Harvard, Craig founded the Harvard Undergraduate Ethics Society and Captained the Ethics Debate Team with the support of the ELSCE. His work helped build a vibrant student community focused on exploring questions of moral and political significance. With the support of the Center's Lester Kissel Grant in Practical Ethics, he published research in the *Journal of Medical Ethics*, *American Journal of Bioethics*, and *AJOB-Neuroscience*.

Craig described his experience at the ELSCE as "the most formative" of his college years and credits the Center with contributing to shaping the path that led to these prestigious honors.