NEW YORK, NY - Three Indian American students were among the 43 named as 2018 Marshall Scholarship recipients, the Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission announced in a Dec. 4 news release. Among the recipients are Pradnya Narkhede of the University of Chicago, Shruthi Rajasekar of Princeton University, and Meghana Vagwala of Duke University. The 43 students from across the U.S. will be taking up degree courses...
at leading British universities in a wide variety of disciplines beginning in September 2018. Narkhede and Vagwala will each study at the University of Edinburgh while Rajasekar will be studying at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. “I’m proud to congratulate the recipients of this year’s Marshall Scholarship, who represent the brightest young minds and leaders the U.S. has to offer,” Sir Kim Darroch, British ambassador to the United States, said in a statement. “For over six decades, the Marshall Scholarship has played an important part in maintaining the strong bonds of friendship between our two countries. This further expansion of scholarships continues to demonstrate our commitment to our special relationship with the U.S. and promoting strong academic ties,” he said.Narkhede, will use her Marshall Scholarship to combine two one-year degrees: the first at the University of Edinburgh in science and technology in society, and the second at Imperial College London in plant chemical biology.
“This award provides me with an unrivaled opportunity to probe the relationship between science and sustainable development,” Narkhede, said. Born and raised in rural India, Narkhede grew up visiting her family’s sugar cane farm—an experience that “beckoned an early fascination with the natural world,” she said. Rajasekar will go to London to work toward a Master of Arts in the new opera making and writing program at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama during her first year abroad. During the second year, she will pursue a Master of Music in ethnomusicology at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. She plans to use the degrees to help her meet her long-term goal of writing an opera set in India, it said.Rajasekar grew up steeped in the idiom of Southern Indian music. She has shared her cultural heritage broadly with the university community while studying to become equally adept in classical Western music as a performer and composer. Vagwala plans to study medical anthropology at the University of Edinburgh and global mental health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
“This award provides me with an unrivaled opportunity to probe the relationship between science and sustainable development,” Narkhede, said. Born and raised in rural India, Narkhede grew up visiting her family’s sugar cane farm—an experience that “beckoned an early fascination with the natural world,” she said. Rajasekar will go to London to work toward a Master of Arts in the new opera making and writing program at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama during her first year abroad. During the second year, she will pursue a Master of Music in ethnomusicology at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. She plans to use the degrees to help her meet her long-term goal of writing an opera set in India, it said.Rajasekar grew up steeped in the idiom of Southern Indian music. She has shared her cultural heritage broadly with the university community while studying to become equally adept in classical Western music as a performer and composer. Vagwala plans to study medical anthropology at the University of Edinburgh and global mental health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
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