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The suspected mass killer James Holmes no more than an average student, researchers at science camp he attended say... Eagleman says, "Holmes is being depicted as some sort of brilliant researcher who won a rare grant, but there are thousands of research students in this country with such grants. Everyone has one. There is nothing elite about it."

Holmes graduated in the spring of 2010 with a degree in neuroscience from the University of California-Riverside, where he was remembered as an outstanding student who attended on a merit-based scholarship. "He was at the top of the top," said Chancellor Timothy White at a hastily called news conference. "He really distinguished himself."