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 are 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 that time, the British Government has provided scholarships for over 2,200 Americans, many of whom have gone on to play leading roles addressing global challenges facing society. 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. Our Atlanta Region finalists include scholars interested in computational biology, stem cell and regeneration therapies, and human osteology and biological anthropological science. 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 completion of their studies.

“This is my first year participating in the selection process for the Marshall Scholarship and the high standard of the applications that we received was impressive.

This is one of the most prestigious and rewarding national scholarships available to American students in the world today and everyone who puts themselves forward deserves to be recognised as it is a very rigorous selection process.
I would like to congratulate our six winners who are outstanding students with diverse interests from top US academic institutions. Giving them the opportunity to study at some of Britain’s best universities as well as the experience of living in the UK will be important in shaping their future careers and personal journeys.”

- Rachel Galloway, HM Consul General to the South Eastern United States

“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 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.

This year’s winners from the Atlanta Region are:

· George Anthony Pratt (Morehouse College) of Jacksonville, FL.
· Assata Davis (Rutgers University) of Roswell, GA
· Natalie Moss (University of Georgia) of Norcross, GA
· Banks Stamp (University of Alabama at Birmingham) of Phenix City, AL
· Kavya Shah (Harvard University) of Orlando, FL
· Kyra Jasper (Stanford University) of Cary, NC


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

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