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British Government announces 41 winners of 2022 Marshall Scholarships

Marshall Scholarships 2022

@UKinUSA – The British Government announced today (13 Dec) the 41 winners of the 2022 Marshall Scholarships. The winners, considered among the top undergraduate university students and recent graduates in the United States, were chosen following a rigorous, months-long selection process.

They will begin graduate studies at top academic institutions across the United Kingdom beginning in September next year.

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The latest class of the UK’s 68-year-old Marshall Scholarship programme reflects a wide range of cultural, academic and geographic backgrounds. Among the cohort are nationally-recognized LGBT rights advocates, artists, award-winning documentary filmmakers and scientists conducting cutting-edge research on Artificial Intelligence and space travel.

This year’s class also features the largest number of Service Academy graduates in the scholarship’s history, with seven Marshall Scholars hailing from the US Military Academy (three), US Naval Academy (two) and the US Air Force Academy (two).

“Marshall Scholars continue to represent the very best of American society, from their ingenuity and creativity to their commitment to public service,” said Dame Karen Pierce, British Ambassador to the United States.

“For decades, the scholarship has played an important role in supporting young future leaders such as these and I am excited for them to continue their development at some of the UK’s top universities.”

The program received nearly 1,000 applications from top undergraduate students representing institutions across the United States. Of the 33 US universities represented, nearly a third are from state or public universities. The University of New Hampshire won its first ever scholarship and the University of Maryland – Baltimore County (1993) and Montana State University (2013) won for only the second time in their respective histories.

“We are delighted to host them in the UK and welcome them into the long and proud tradition of Marshall Scholars who have contributed so much to the US, UK and the world,” said John Raine, Chair of the Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission.

“I am pleased in particular to welcome Scholars from Universities who have not sent Marshall Scholars before and hope even more US Universities will encourage candidates next year”

The program is principally funded by the British Government, but also benefits from generous support through partnership arrangements with world-leading British academic institutions, allowing winners to pursue graduate degrees in almost any academic subject at any university in the UK.

The 2022 class will take up their studies at 21 different institutions across the UK starting next September, ranging from London institutions such as King’s College London to the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland.

The scholarship program also continues to receive generous support from the Association of Marshall Scholars (AMS), the official alumni organisation of the Marshall Scholarship.

The British Schools & Universities Foundation (BUSF) also provides generous support and funds for a scholarship.

The full list of 2022 winners are:

StudentUS UniversityUK University
Yasa BaigDuke UniversityUniversity of Cambridge
Samuel BrodyUnited States Air Force AcademyUniversity of Oxford
Allyson BurbaUnited States Air Force AcademyLondon School of Economics
Julia ChaffersPrinceton UniversityUniversity College London
Herman ChavezUniversity of California – Los AngelesKing’s College London
Maggie ChenHarvard UniversityImperial College London
Kennedy CrowderUniversity of PennsylvaniaUniversity of Bristol
Aissa Dearing-BentonHoward UniversityUniversity of Oxford
Jackson FosterUniversity of Alabama – TuscaloosaDurham University
Isabelle GalkoSouthern Methodist UniversityUniversity of Oxford
Matthew GannonDartmouth CollegeUniversity of Manchester
Rohit GoyalYale UniversityLondon School of Economics
Nicolas Graber-MitchellAmherst CollegeUniversity of Oxford
Tommy HallUnited States Military AcademyUniversity of Cambridge
Kade HeckelUnited States Naval AcademyUniversity of Sussex
Myya HelmWest Virginia UniversityCardiff University
Callie HolleyNew York UniversityBirmingham City University
Jonathan KuoUniversity of California – BerkeleyUniversity of Manchester
Abrita KuthumiUniversity of New HampshireUniversity of Sussex
Abdullah KuziezWashington University in St. LouisUniversity of Oxford
Annie LiEmory UniversityUniversity of Oxford
David LiMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyUniversity of Cambridge
Maja LynnUniversity of PittsburghQueen’s Universi ty Belfast
James MarekDuke UniversityUniversity of Edinburgh
Greta MarkeyCarnegie Mellon UniversityUniversity of East Anglia
Andrew McDonaldMichigan State UniversityUniversity of Cambridge
Kennedy MillerUniversity of North Carolina – Chapel HillRoyal Academy of Music
Lydia NyacheioUniversity of Wisconsin – MadisonUniversity of Manchester
Ifeyinwa OjukwuSyracuse UniversityUniversity College London
Chinaza OkonkwoUniversity of PennsylvaniaUniversity of Oxford
Nina PotischmanPonoma CollegeUniversity of Exeter
Akhil RajanYale UniversityUniversity of Oxford
Evan RobertsonUnited States Naval AcademyUniversity of Strathclyde
Emma San MartinUnited States Military AcademyUniversity of Glasgow
Joshua SlaughterUniversity of Maryland – Baltimore CountyUniversity of Edinburgh
RB SmithWilliams CollegeUniversity of Edinburgh
Osimiri SprowalTemple UniversityUniversity of Warwick
Berenice SylverainColumbia UniversityUniversity of Oxford
Henry ThompsonUnited States Naval AcademyKing’s College London
Nathaniel TrostUniversity of Alabama – TuscaloosaGoldsmiths, University of London
Max YatesMontana State UniversityUniversity of Cambridge

About the Marshall Scholarship

Named for Secretary of State George C. Marshall, the Marshall Scholarship Program began in 1953 as a gesture of gratitude to the people of the United States for the assistance that the UK received after World War II under the Marshall Plan. Since that time, it has remained uniquely positioned among national scholarships for its prestige and scope: offering talented young Americans the chance to study any academic subject at UK universities of their choice for up to 3 years.

This has given rise to an unprecedented breadth of expertise in almost every academic field, producing numerous university presidents, six Pulitzer Prize winners, one Nobel Laureate, fourteen MacArthur Fellows, two-academy-Award nominees, two US Supreme Court Justices and a NASA Astronaut.

With over 2,200 scholarships awarded to date, Marshall Scholars are leading the conversation and direction of some of the most critical issues of our time.

Notable winners of the scholarship include:

  • Supreme Court Associate Justices Stephen Breyer and Neil Gorsuch
  • William Burns, Director of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency
  • Pulitzer Prize-winning authors Anne Applebaum, Tom Friedman, Jeffrey Gettleman and Dan Yergin
  • Ray Dolby, Founder of Dolby Laboratories and 1997 winner of the National Medal of Technology and Innovation
  • Dr. Dan Barouch, Leading COVID-19 vaccine researcher and William Bosworth Castle Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School
  • Reid Hoffman, Philanthropist and founder of social networking platform LinkedIn
  • Anne McClain, NASA Astronaut who served aboard the International Space Station in 2018
  • Jocelyn Benson, Secretary of State for the State of Michigan
  • Patrick Hovakimian, Associate Deputy Attorney General, US Department of Justice
  • Joshua Oppenheimer, Academy Award-nominated documentary film director of The Act of Killing
  • Nancy Gibbs, Former Managing Editor of TIME Magazine
  • Roger Tsien, 2008 Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry
  • R.F. Kuang, Author of the Poppy War book series and 2020 winner of the Astounding Award for Best New Writer

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