Nine Receive Thouron Awards to Study in United Kingdom

Thouron Award

Five College seniors and four recent College alumni have each received a 2022 Thouron Award to pursue graduate studies in the United Kingdom. Each scholarship recipient receives tuition for as long as two years, as well as travel and living stipends, to earn a graduate degree there.

Established in 1960 and supported with gifts by the late John Thouron and his wife, Esther du Pont Thouron, the Thouron Award is a graduate exchange program between Penn and U.K. universities that aims to improve understanding and relations between the two countries.

Penn’s nine 2022 Thouron Scholars are:

Ayina Anyachebelu, from Lagos, Nigeria, is a senior in the Huntsman Program in International Studies and Business in the College and the Wharton School, majoring in business strategy and international studies.

Michael John, from Boston, graduated in 2020 with a bachelor’s degree in Africana studies and a minor in political science.

Anjali Mahajan, of Jackson, Tennessee, is a senior majoring in political science, with minors in French and chemistry.

Sabine Nix, from South Salem, New York, graduated in 2020 with a bachelor’s degree in earth science.

Robert Novak, from Chatham, New Jersey, is a senior majoring in biochemistry, biophysics, and physics and is submatriculating for a master’s degree in chemistry, as part of the Roy and Diana Vagelos Scholars Program in the Molecular Life Sciences.

Trevor Núñez, of Brooklyn, New York, graduated in 2021 with a bachelor’s degree in political science with a concentration in American politics.

Andrew Orner, from Darien, Connecticut, is a senior double majoring in economics and in political science with a concentration in international relations, with a minor in Hispanic studies.

Lawrence Phillips, of Harrison, New York, is a senior majoring in physics and philosophy.

Mark Rinder, of Morganville, New Jersey, graduated in 2019 from the Huntsman Program in International Studies and Business in the College and the Wharton School, with concentrations in statistics and business economics and public policy and a minor in Latin American and Latinx studies.

To read more about the scholars, click here.

 

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