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Foundation Fellow selected as 2007 Marshall Scholar
By Joelle Prine
jprine@uga.edu
UGA Foundation Fellow Jayanthi Narain has been selected as one of 43 recipients of a 2007 Marshall Scholarship to study in the United Kingdom. Narain, a senior from Macon with majors in international affairs and economics, is the first female and fifth UGA student since 2004 to earn this prestigious national award.

Jayanthi Narain
After graduating in May 2007, Narain will pursue a one-year master of science program in development studies at the London School of Economics and then a master’s degree in Near and Middle Eastern studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London the following year.

“To have four University of Georgia students selected as Marshall Scholars in the past five years is a real point of pride,” said UGA President Michael F. Adams. “I am pleased that our students are exhibiting a heightened interest in world affairs. The Marshall Scholarship will help Jayanthi pursue important studies for the future of our rapidly changing world.”

The Marshall Scholarships were established in 1953 by the British Parliament to serve as a living gift to the U.S. for its role in the Marshall Plan, the European recovery effort after World War II.

The scholarship enables at least 40 students each year to immerse themselves in British life and gain an understanding and appreciation of the unique relationship between the U.S. and Britain.

Each scholarship is for two years of study at any university in the United Kingdom, and includes living expenses, tuition, books, research grants, daily travel and airfare to and from the U.S.

According to Steve Elliott-Gower, UGA’s Marshall Scholarship adviser and associate director of the Honors Program, the selection process is completed through eight regions where a total of 958 applications were received from all over the country.

“I am most pleased that Jayanthi has received this level of recognition of her academic and personal qualities,” said David S. Williams, director of UGA’s Honors Program. “She not only has a very impressive intellect, but she is also an extremely empathetic person.  Jayanthi will doubtless make a great deal of positive difference in the world.”

With her Foundation Fellowship, Narain has traveled to New Zealand, South Korea and the Galapagos Islands and spent last summer in Africa working with an HIV/AIDS education program. This month, she travels to Cambodia as an intern for Heritage Watch.

She aspires to a career in economic development, with a focus on ­community-based solutions to poverty.
 


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