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In December, Nolan Musslewhite ’25 and Travis Kanoa Chai Andrade ’24 were named 2025 Marshall scholars and received all-expenses-paid opportunities to study at British universities for two years.  

Musslewhite, who comes from Washington D.C., is a history major. At Princeton, he co-founded and co-directs the Africa Program at the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination, and he is co-president of the Alexander Hamilton Society. Musslewhite plans to study African studies at The School of Oriental African Studies and history at the University of Oxford, with the goal of shaping U.S. policies impacting Africa, according to the program’s announcement. 

Chai Andrade, who majored in anthropology at Princeton, is from Keaau, Hawaii. According to his LinkedIn, as a student he received numerous awards from the University including the Shapiro Prize for Academic Excellence and a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship, and he served as a Residential College Adviser, co-chair of the Rockefeller College Council, and a research fellow at Nuclear Princeton. He is planning to pursue a master’s degree in the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas at the University of East Anglia, with the aim of eventually becoming a professor. 

In January, three Princeton seniors were among the 150 students selected to be part of the 10th cohort of Schwarzman scholars. They will start their master’s in global affairs at Tsinghua University in Beijing in August as part of the one-year, fully funded program. 

Diya Kraybill ’25, who was raised in Singapore, is majoring in politics. At Princeton, she has served as vice president for her class, editor-in-chief of the Princeton Legal Journal, a Cicero Fellow in Princeton’s Program in Law and Public Policy, and a residential college community living adviser. According to the University’s announcement, she plans to pursue a career in international law. 

Issa Mudashiru ’25, of Bethesda, Maryland, is studying anthropology at Princeton. He is co-captain of the men’s varsity soccer team, a Class of 2025 Global Health Scholar by Princeton’s Center for Health and Wellbeing, and a student athlete wellness leader. He plans to become an orthopedic surgeon and work with global health officials to bolster health systems in Africa, according to the University. 

New Jerseyan James Zhang ’25, who is majoring in computer science, is president emeritus of the Princeton Entrepreneurship Club and an organizer for Princeton AI Alignment, a student group concerned with the safety of AI. According to the University, he hopes to become an AI researcher-entrepreneur. 

Professors Sandie Bermann (comparative literature) and Rick Register (chemical and biological engineering) were honored as the University’s inaugural Distinguished Faculty Service Award recipients in February. The award “recognizes faculty who have made exceptional contributions in service to Princeton not only within, but also beyond their academic departments,” according to a news release. The honorees received a medal and a monetary award.

Bermann has served on many faculty committees, including the Committee on Committees and the University Student Life Committee, and in numerous leadership roles, as chair of the Department of Comparative Literature and co-founder of the Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication. She currently directs the Program in Values and Public Life.

Register heads the Princeton Materials Institute, and his past leadership roles include director of the Princeton Center for Complex Materials, chair of the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, and director of graduate studies for chemical engineering and chemical and biological engineering. 

Princeton University Concerts was awarded $20,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to support the Healing with Music series, a multi-year project launched in 2022. Receiving the grant is “a historic moment for Princeton University Concerts,” artistic and executive director Marna Seltzer said in a news release. “For 131 years, our programming has been mostly made possible by the generosity of our patrons. To have the support of the National Endowment for the Arts for the very first time is not just vital financial reinforcement but also important recognition for the work that we do to expand the impact and accessibility of classical chamber music.”