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A Statement from the AMS
The Association of Marshall Scholars condemns all forms of racism and discrimination. We stand with the Asian, Asian-American, and Pacific Islander community.
UK Government announces 46 winners of the 2021 Marshall Scholarships
The 46 recipients of the 2021 Marshall Scholarships have been unveiled today by the British government. The winners, considered to be among the best and brightest university students and recent graduates in the United States, were chosen following a rigorous selection process and will begin graduate studies at many of the UK’s top academic institutions beginning in September 2021.
Wind Of Change
It’s 1990. The Berlin Wall just fell. The Soviet Union is on the verge of collapse. And the soundtrack to the revolution is one of the best selling songs of all time, the metal ballad “Wind of Change,” by the Scorpions.
Decades later, journalist Patrick Radden Keefe heard a rumor: the song wasn’t written by the Scorpions. It was written by the CIA. This is his journey to find the truth.
Wind of Change is an Original Series from Pineapple Street Studios, Crooked Media and Spotify.
The Marshall Arts & Humanities Series: The Nineteenth Amendment Centennial
From Suffrage to Equal Rights: Women and Constitutional Amendments (Friday, July 10, 12-1pm EDT)
To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment this summer, please join us for a lunchtime discussion with Julie Suk (1997), Professor of Sociology & Political Science at The Graduate Center, CUNY, who will offer a sneak preview of her book, We the Women: The Unstoppable Mothers of the Equal Rights Amendment (available now for pre-order and forthcoming in August 2020), in conversation with Kathleen Sullivan (1976) partner in Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, and former Dean of Stanford Law School.
Welcome remarks by Gene Hickok, Chairman of the Board of The Montpelier Foundation, and moderated by Jeannie Suk Gersen (Marshall Scholar 1995).
The Marshall Arts & Humanities Series: Music
Please join us for a lunchtime listening & online conversation: four musicians and an architect explore musical space and texture in the time of COVID. Programme to include music of Bach, Beaser, Namoradze, Ogonek, and Scriaben, plus some traditional singing. Performers include Michael Poll (2012), Elizabeth Ogonek (2012), Emi Ferguson, Juan Jofre and Nico Namoradze.
A statement from the AMS
Like you, the Association of Marshall Scholars is sickened and angered by recent events. The tragic killing of George Floyd – like Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, Ahmaud Arbery, and countless other Black Americans over the years -- is a horrific reminder of the systemic racial inequities that have plagued our nation for generations.
Marshall Arts & Humanities Series
A lunchtime reading by poet Joyelle McSweeney (1997) sharing her latest work: Toxicon and Arachne (recently reviewed in The New Yorker ) followed by a discussion with author and Kenyon Review poetry editor, David Baker and Kendra Sullivan. This is the first in a series of Marshall Arts & Humanities online events to connect and inspire us over this difficult spring and early summer months.
UK Government announces 46 recipients of 2020 Marshall Scholarships
The British Government today unveiled 46 recipients of the 2020 Marshall Scholarships, the second-largest class in the scholarship program’s 66-year history.
Poll: Majority of Americans continue to support a US-UK bilateral trade deal
Majority of Americans continue to support a US-UK bilateral trade deal. Americans expect ‘special relationship’ to increase after Brexit
2019 Marshall Forum
On April 11, 2019, the Association of Marshall Scholars hosted the third consecutive Marshall Forum, bringing together industry executives and CEOs with diplomats, government dignitaries, Marshall Scholars, and experts, to further US-UK ties and understanding. This half-day executive dialog took place at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace on the sidelines of the annual International Monetary Fund’s Washington DC convening.
2018 US National Public Opinion Survey of Global Strategic Partnerships and Education Diplomacy
The main goal of the national poll was to better understand American popular sentiment regarding the historic alliance between the United States and the United Kingdom. The survey begins to probe American perception of the strength of these ties and whether they are driven by shared values such as democratic norms, cultural expression, military, commercial, or educational ties.