British Government announces 41 winners of 2022 Marshall Scholarships

Washington, DC (13 December 2021) –The British Government announced today 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.

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:

Student

US University

UK University

Yasa Baig

Duke University

University of Cambridge

Samuel Brody

United States Air Force Academy

University of Oxford

Allyson Burba

United States Air Force Academy

London School of Economics

Julia Chaffers

Princeton University

University College London

Herman Chavez

University of California – Los Angeles

King’s College London

Maggie Chen

Harvard University

Imperial College London

Kennedy Crowder

University of Pennsylvania

University of Bristol

Aissa Dearing-Benton

Howard University

University of Oxford

Jackson Foster

University of Alabama – Tuscaloosa

Durham University

Isabelle Galko

Southern Methodist University

University of Oxford

Matthew Gannon

Dartmouth College

University of Manchester

Rohit Goyal

Yale University

London School of Economics

Nicolas Graber-Mitchell

Amherst College

University of Oxford

Tommy Hall

United States Military Academy

University of Cambridge

Kade Heckel

United States Naval Academy

University of Sussex

Myya Helm

West Virginia University

Cardiff University

Callie Holley

New York University

Birmingham City University

Jonathan Kuo

University of California – Berkeley

University of Manchester

Abrita Kuthumi

University of New Hampshire

University of Sussex

Abdullah Kuziez

Washington University in St. Louis

University of Oxford

Annie Li

Emory University

University of Oxford

David Li

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

University of Cambridge

Maja Lynn

University of Pittsburgh

Queen’s Universi ty Belfast

James Marek

Duke University

University of Edinburgh

Greta Markey

Carnegie Mellon University

University of East Anglia

Andrew McDonald

Michigan State University

University of Cambridge

Kennedy Miller

University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill

Royal Academy of Music

Lydia Nyacheio

University of Wisconsin – Madison

University of Manchester

Ifeyinwa Ojukwu

Syracuse University

University College London

Chinaza Okonkwo

University of Pennsylvania

University of Oxford

Nina Potischman

Ponoma College

University of Exeter

Akhil Rajan

Yale University

University of Oxford

Evan Robertson

United States Naval Academy

University of Strathclyde

Emma San Martin

United States Military Academy

University of Glasgow

Joshua Slaughter

University of Maryland – Baltimore County

University of Edinburgh

RB Smith

Williams College

University of Edinburgh

Osimiri Sprowal

Temple University

University of Warwick

Berenice Sylverain

Columbia University

University of Oxford

Henry Thompson

United States Naval Academy

King’s College London

Nathaniel Trost

University of Alabama – Tuscaloosa

Goldsmiths, University of London

Max Yates

Montana State University

University 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

For media inquiries about the Marshall Scholarship and the recipients, please contact Josh Stanton at Joshua[email protected].