Pair to study at Oxford University.
By: David Campbell
Princeton University seniors Patrick Cunningham and Joshua Geltzer have been awarded 2005 Marshall Scholarships, which cover the cost of living and studying at a British university of the recipient’s choice for two to three years.
Mr. Cunningham is an English major and recipient of several creative-writing awards. He will use his scholarship money to seek a master’s degree in English literature at Oxford University.
Mr. Geltzer, who is concentrating his studies at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, will choose a university to pursue a master’s degree in international relations, the university said.
Financed by the British government, the Marshall Scholarships are awarded each year to American students who have demonstrated academic excellence and leadership potential. The Marshall Scholarships were founded in 1953 as gesture of thanks to the United States for post-war assistance under the Marshall Plan.
Mr. Cunningham, an Ohio native, will focus on English literature of the 19th century while at Oxford, with special emphasis on the dramatic work of the aesthetic movement. He is editor-in-chief of Tiger Magazine and an editor of Nassau Weekly magazine and a member of the Princeton Undergraduate Honor Committee.
"Patrick is the ideal Marshall Scholar," said Neil Rudenstine, former Harvard University president who now teaches part time at Princeton. "He’s intellectually brilliant, but he’s also adventurous and imaginative. He’s a fine example of high intelligence, inventiveness and deep immersion in everything that he takes on."
Mr. Geltzer is a New York City native whose primary interest is in transatlantic relations. He plans to work on issues of transatlantic communication, signaling, perception and misperception for his senior thesis, the university said.
He serves as an officer of the Law and Public Affairs Forum and is a junior fellow in the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions. He is treasurer of the Ivy Club, president of the Student Bioethics Forum and co-editor-in-chief of the Princeton Journal of Bioethics.
"Josh Geltzer is one of those delightful students who combines academic rigor with a broad-ranging and genuine intellectual curiosity," said Princeton Provost Christopher Eisgruber. "He has taken demanding courses from all corners of the university curriculum, and he has thrived in each of them. I am pleased, but certainly not surprised, that he has received a Marshall Scholarship."

