Senior Jacob Finley named 2026 Churchill Scholar
Erin Blasko
University of Notre Dame senior Jacob Finley has been named a 2026 Churchill Scholar. He is one of 16 selected for the award from a pool of nearly 160 applicants. He is Notre Dame’s fifth Churchill Scholar overall and second in the past three years.
A 2025 Goldwater Scholar, Finley is an honors track physics-in-medicine major from Kentucky with research and clinical interests in radiation oncology — an orientation shaped by witnessing family members and hospice patients undergo cancer...