A North Hall High graduate has earned a prestigious scholarship to continue his studies at a joint program between the National Institutes of Health and Cambridge University. Leland Taylor, valedictorian of the North Hall class of 2008, recently graduated from Davidson College with a degree in computational biology, and is now pursuing his Ph.D. in genetics and bioinformatics as part of the NIH-Cambridge Scholars Program, an accelerated doctoral training program of science students in biomedical research. Taylor said his time at North Hall, particularly a calculus class taught by Jeff Chandler, began his track down this career path.