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Four Indian Americans named 2013 Marshall Scholars
Thursday December 06, 2012 01:02:53 PM,
IANS
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Washington: Four Indian Americans are among the
recipients of the prestigious Marshall Scholarships, giving them
the opportunity to study at a university of their choice in
Britain next autumn.
The two-year scholarship is distributed to approximately 40
promising young American students by the Marshal Aid Commemoration
Commission every year.
The Indian-American winners are Aditya Ashok from Boston College,
Aditya Balasubramanian from Harvard University, Paras Minhas from
the University of Pittsburgh and Rahul Rekhi from Rice University.
Ashok, a history and biology graduate, served in numerous
leadership positions on campus during his time as co-president of
the AIDS Awareness Committee. He recently served as an intern at
the Office of National AIDS Policy at the White House. He will be
studying global health at the University of Glasgow from August
2013.
Rekhi, a Barry M. Goldwater and Harry S. Truman Scholar, has
participated in several health and policy-based internships at
organizations like Beyond Traditional Borders, the World Health
Organization and the National Science Foundation. He has chosen to
study biomedical engineering at the University of Oxford, where he
will receive his master's degree.
Balasubramanian will be studying econometrics and mathematical
economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
For about a year, he worked at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty
Action Lab in New Delhi and focused on the inner workings of
political and campaign processes.
Minhas, who will be studying molecular cell biology at the
University College London next autumn is interested in furthering
his career as a physician and scientist.
Minhas has received countless awards in college, including a
coveted Goldwater Scholarship. He is currently an Amgen Scholar at
MIT and Research Fellow at the Mayo Clinic.
(Arun Kumar can be contacted at arun.kumar@ians.in)
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