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Herzer & Mediratta win Marshall Scholarships
Issue date: 12/4/08
Senior Kurt Herzer and graduate Rishi Mediratta ('08), both majors in public health, have been awarded prestigious Marshall Scholarships, a two-year grant to pursue graduate studies in the United Kingdom that is given to 40 students annually.
Herzer will pursue a masters degree in social policy at University of Oxford while Mediratta will use the scholarship to study medical anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London in his first year and public health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in his second.
Both students, who plan to attend medical school after studying in England, have been described as academic "fanatics," in the best meaning of the word, by John Bader, associate dean for Academic Programs and Advising and scholarship advisor, who has worked closely with both winners.
"Students who win a scholarship like that have a kind of otherworldliness to them, they're really not normal people . . . They have taken interests and passions in their lives and pushed them well beyond the realm of the normal . . . You have to be a bit insane," Bader said.
The 55-year-old scholarship was established by an act of British Parliament to strengthen relations between the two countries.
Due to the universal recognition of the scholarship as one of the top awards for American undergraduates and the paucity of spots available, winning two scholarships in one year gives any university cause to celebrate.
Still, Herzer emphasized he does not view any scholarship as a prize.
"I don't see scholarships as goals. A lot of people do. I see scholarships as means to a greater goal . . . I was surprised and ecstatic, but if I didn't get it, the mission and vision wouldn't have changed," he said.
Herzer, who is a Truman Scholar, is featured on the cover of the most recent issue of Hopkins's Arts & Science Magazine, and plans on studying at either St. Johns or Trinity College within Oxford.
Herzer will pursue a masters degree in social policy at University of Oxford while Mediratta will use the scholarship to study medical anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London in his first year and public health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in his second.
Both students, who plan to attend medical school after studying in England, have been described as academic "fanatics," in the best meaning of the word, by John Bader, associate dean for Academic Programs and Advising and scholarship advisor, who has worked closely with both winners.
"Students who win a scholarship like that have a kind of otherworldliness to them, they're really not normal people . . . They have taken interests and passions in their lives and pushed them well beyond the realm of the normal . . . You have to be a bit insane," Bader said.
The 55-year-old scholarship was established by an act of British Parliament to strengthen relations between the two countries.
Due to the universal recognition of the scholarship as one of the top awards for American undergraduates and the paucity of spots available, winning two scholarships in one year gives any university cause to celebrate.
Still, Herzer emphasized he does not view any scholarship as a prize.
"I don't see scholarships as goals. A lot of people do. I see scholarships as means to a greater goal . . . I was surprised and ecstatic, but if I didn't get it, the mission and vision wouldn't have changed," he said.
Herzer, who is a Truman Scholar, is featured on the cover of the most recent issue of Hopkins's Arts & Science Magazine, and plans on studying at either St. Johns or Trinity College within Oxford.
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