College Senior, Alumnus Named Marshall Scholars
December 16, 2011
Corey Metzman, C’12, W’12, and Michael Poll, C’09, have been awarded Marshall Scholarships for graduate study in the United Kingdom.
Metzman is the co-founder of Penn’s Dorm Room Diplomacy, a cross-campus initiative to foster mutual understanding and communication between college students in the United States and the Middle East. This past summer, he traveled to a coffee farm in Nicaragua as a part of a research team lead by Graduate School of Education professor Sharon Ravitch. Metzman intends to study at the London School of Economics to pursue a master of science in development studies, followed by Oxford University for a master’s in evidence-based social intervention.
Poll is a solo classical guitarist and a 2010 Fulbright Scholar. He is currently pursuing a performance diploma at the I.J. Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznan, Poland. During his time at Penn, Poll was a founding member of the Green Campus Partnership and participated in the Penn Baroque Ensemble and the Penn Choir and Choral Society. He also performed solo recitals in several countries including Italy, Panama, Poland and the United States. From 2007 until 2010, Poll served on the faculty of the Bryn Mawr Conservatory of Music.
The Marshall Scholarships were established by the British government in 1953 to express British gratitude for the European Recovery Program, instituted by General George C. Marshall in 1947 when he served as U.S. Secretary of State. The scholarship is for study at any university in the United Kingdom.