Math major wins Marshall Scholarship to Oxford

Colleges & Universities University of Michigan
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<p>Michigan State also had a winner this year. Congrats to the Michigan publics!</p>

<p>[University</a> of Michigan News Service | Math student wins Marshall Scholarship to study in Britain](<a href=“http://www.ns.umich.edu/new/releases/20094-math-student-wins-marshall-scholarship-to-study-in-britain]University”>Math student wins Marshall Scholarship to study in Britain | University of Michigan News)</p>

<p>The Marshall foundation, which awards approximately 35 scholarships annually (similar to the Rhodes scholarship) just awarded a fellow Wolverine a scholarship. As always, those awards seem to be randomly handed out, although Princeton had an astonishing 5 recipiants while Indiana University had an impressive 3 winners. </p>

<p>Michigan’s total number of Marshall recipiants now stands at 17, which is roughly in line with its peers. As in most other cases, only Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Stanford and MIT have produced a disproportionate number of winners, each with over 50. Brown has a mildly impressive 45. Cal, Cornell and the USMA have ~ 30 each. Beyond those 9 universities, the remaining elite have produced between 10-25 winners.</p>

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<p>The Marshall is for Cambridge, not Oxford, by the way, OP</p>

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<p>“The Marshall is for Cambridge, not Oxford, by the way, OP”</p>

<p>University of Michigan News Service | Math student wins Marshall Scholarship to study in Britain</p>

<p>“Carney will spend one year studying the history of science, medicine and technology at the University of Oxford, and another year in math at the University of Cambridge. He looks forward to going abroad, to seeing new places and hearing new ideas in another educational tradition.”</p>

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<p>I think that Michigan is more concerned with getting Fulbright scholarships for it’s best students and devotes more time and resources to it. It makes sense to me. This year alone 29 were secured, the most of any school in the country. Michigan has lead in the awarding of this prestigious award for five of the last seven years. It seems the university sees the return on investment make the time and resources devoted to it well worth the effort.</p>

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<p>I know Alex… he’s a great guy and definitely deserves this. One of his friends posted the article on his facebook page and it has about 70 ‘likes’ already haha</p>