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Indian origin students win 2026 Marshall Scholarship
The Marshall Scholarship for American students is funded by the UK government as a gesture of gratitude for the Marshall Plan.
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Staff Reporter - Fri, 12, Dec 2025
- 02:37 EST
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Ashwin Sivakumar and Sreenidhi Surineni/ / Enlight Education and Harvard University
The British Government has announced that India origin students Ashwin Sivakumar and Sreenidhi Surineni are among the winners of the 2026 Marshall Scholarship, recognizing their outstanding academic achievement, leadership, and ambassadorial potential.
The Marshall Scholarship, established by an Act of Parliament in 1953 as a gesture of gratitude for the Marshall Plan, is funded by the UK government with additional support from leading British universities, the Association of Marshall Scholars, and partner foundations.
It enables outstanding American graduates to pursue postgraduate study in any discipline at top universities across the United Kingdom, fostering lasting intellectual and cultural exchange between the U.S. and the U.K.
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Ashwin Sivakumar, a student of Integrative Biology at the Harvard University, he is fascinated by how organisms adapt. His research uses genetics to explore two big questions, how nature's incredible diversity evolved, and what allows species to cope with rapid human-driven environmental changes.
He also founded The NativeBiota Project to champion birds and protect urban wildlife habitats. The project collaborates with the Pasadena Audubon Society, WWF-India, and numerous birding and naturalist communities to promote native urban ecosystems and document biodiversity across two continents.
Sreenidhi Surineni, an undergraduate at University of California- Riverside, studies the intersectionality of neuroscience, engineering, and computation, finding ways to better understand brain disease and improve patient care.
Surineni is the Founder and CEO of Enlight Education, a nonprofit organization established in 2018. He has significantly impacted under-resourced elementary schools by raising over $20,000 for new science equipment and providing STEM education to students in the Inland Empire and India.
Other than Sivakumar and Sivakumar, Maya Butani from Princeton University and Dhruvak Mirani from the University of Maryland are also among the 43 winners of the 2026 Marshall Scholarship.
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