WESTBOROUGH — Ryan Doan-Nguyen, a resident of Westborough who currently attends Harvard University, was among the 36 winners of the 2025 Marshall Scholarship.
With the award, which was announced by the British government on Monday, Dec. 16, he will begin graduate studies at a university in the United Kingdom.
Doan-Nguyen was a recent intern with The Associated Press whose articles have received the Associated Collegiate Press’ 2023 Story of the Year Award and the Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA)’s 2024 Student Excellence in Written Reporting Award.
The program was created by an act of the British Parliament in 1953 as a living memorial to former U.S. Secretary of State General George C. Marshall and American assistance provided following World War II. The scholarship allows up to three years of fully funded graduate study in any academic topic at any university in the United Kingdom, home to 17 of the top 100 universities in the world.
The program received 983 applications this year from candidates representing academic institutions across the United States.
