British Government announces 40 winners of 2023 Marshall Scholarships as program prepares to celebrate 70th anniversary

Washington, DC (12 December 2022) –The 40 winners of the 2023 Marshall Scholarships has been unveiled today by the British Government. The recipients, considered among the most accomplished undergraduate university students and recent graduates in the United States, were chosen following an intense selection process. The 2023 class will begin graduate studies at universities across the United Kingdom next year, coinciding with the 70th anniversary of the scholarship. 

The incoming class is the latest cohort of the seven decades-long program created by an Act of British Parliament in 1953  as a thank you to former US Secretary of State General George Marshall and the US for assistance under the Marshall Plan.  Since then, the British Government has provided scholarships for over 2,200 Americans, many of whom have gone on to play leading roles in addressing society's global challenges. Marshall Scholars currently sit on the US Supreme Court, serve in local, state and federal governments, and have played key roles in the national response to the COVID-19  pandemic.  

This year’s class includes accomplished authors, astrophysicists, human rights advocates and COVID-19 researchers among other disciplines. 85% of the 2023 class intend to pursue public service careers in the US following their time in the UK,  including representatives from the US Military Academy and US Air Force Academy who will take up active duty service upon completing their studies.  

“Whether it is the War in Ukraine or global challenges from the effects of Climate Change, Marshall Scholars continue to work to help address global issues head on,” said Dame Karen Pierce, British Ambassador to the United States. “The British  Government is excited to support these future leaders of American society as they begin the next stage of their lives  studying at some of the UK’s top academic institutions.” 

“Marshall Scholars continue to embody the spirit of the scholarship’s namesake in their commitment to making the world a  better place. They are powerful advocates for excellence and progress in an impressive range of disciplines,” said John Raine, Chair of the Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission. 

The program received 951 applications from candidates representing academic institutions across the United States. Of the  32 US universities represented, over a third are state or public universities and military service academies. The University of  North Dakota, Pitzer College (CA) and Wayne State University (MI) will send Marshall Scholars to the UK for the first time ever. Morehouse College (GA) – one of the top Historically Black Colleges and Universities in the United States – received its first scholarship award since 1996. Wabash College (IN) will send a Marshall Scholar to the UK for the first time in over three decades. 

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 Cardiff University in  Wales. 

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 2023 winners are:

Abdelhamid Arbab — Princeton University

Dominic Arzadon  — Pitzer College

Rachel Chae  — Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Michael Chen — Yale University

Daniel Chen — University of Washington – Seattle

Assata Davis — Rutgers University

Carson Eckhard — University of Pennsylvania

Beatrix Frissell — University of Montana – Missoula

Bayan Galal — Yale University

Kyrolos Georgey — United States Air Force Academy

Hannah Gillespie — University of Notre Dame

Cyril Gilman — Columbia University

Alexis Harrell — SUNY – Buffalo

Clare Heinbaugh — College of William & Mary

Ricky Holder — University of Chicago

Alex Hu — Yale University

Sihao Huang — Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Lauren Jarvis — Baylor University

Kyra Jasper — Stanford University

Sarah Kane — University of Pennsylvania

Aaron Keathley — Wayne State University

Grace Kim — Harvard University

Amy Krimm — University of Pennsylvania

Laura Lewis — California Institute of Technology

Sarah Marze — University of Connecticut

Sydney Menne — University of North Dakota

Natalie Moss — University of Georgia

Nathan Mudrak — Johns Hopkins University

Katie Pascavis — Arizona State University

George Antony Pratt — Morehouse College

Max Pushkin — Brown University

Maggie Sardino — Syracuse University

Kavya Shah — Harvard University

Cooper Smith — Wabash College

Banks Stamp —University of Alabama – Birmingham

Rose Summers — University of Colorado – Boulder

Aristotle Vainikos — Harvard University

Marley Wait — United States Military Academy

Lauren Wilkes — University of Georgia

Samara Zuckerbrod — University of Texas - Austin

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 ● Dr. Dan Barouch, Leading COVID-19 vaccine researcher and William Bosworth Castle Professor of Medicine at  Harvard Medical School 

● Kurt Campbell, Deputy Assistant to the President and Coordinator for the Indo-Pacific, White House National  Security Council 

● Reid Hoffman, Philanthropist and founder of social networking platform LinkedIn 

● Lisa Cook, Economist and currently the first African-American woman and first person of color to sit on the  Federal Reserve Board of Governors. 

● Anne McClain, NASA Astronaut who served aboard the International Space Station in 2018 ● Jocelyn Benson, Secretary of State for the State of Michigan 

● Roger Tsien, 2008 Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry 

● Ray Dolby, Founder of Dolby Laboratories and 1997 winner of the National Medal of Technology and Innovation ● Rebecca F. Kuang, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel and The Poppy War book trilogy.