Five Columbians will soon be pursuing graduate studies in the United Kingdom as recipients of prestigious Rhodes and Marshall Scholarships.
Columbia College seniors Fatima AlJarman AlNuaimi and Stanley Davis have been awarded Rhodes Scholarships, which fund two to three years of graduate study in any field at the University of Oxford. AlJarman AlNuaimi, a native of the United Arab Emirates who was the editor in chief of Quarto and founded a journal that publishes the work of women from Southwest Asia and North Africa, will pursue an advanced degree in world literature. Davis, a psychology major from Tennessee who oversees fifty other undergraduate researchers in Columbia’s CyberPsych Lab, will study experimental psychology and comparative social policy.
Fellow College senior Joseph Karaganis and recent graduates Theo Taplitz ’25CC and Brianna Przywozny ’25SEAS have received Marshall Scholarships, which fund graduate study at any UK institution. Karaganis is a native New Yorker who has taught political science to high schoolers and incarcerated individuals and will study philosophy at Oxford. Taplitz is an LA-raised director and writer who plans to pursue scriptwriting at the University of East Anglia and filmmaking at Goldsmiths, University of London. Przywozny, a native of New Jersey who has already earned a master’s degree in biomedical engineering from Columbia and conducted research on how gravity affects biological systems, will pursue a doctorate in engineering at Oxford.
