Penn Senior and Penn Alum Win Marshall Scholarships

PHILADELPHIA-- The Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships at the University of Pennsylvania today announced that Corey Metzman and Michael Poll have won United Kingdom Government Scholarships for graduate studies in the United Kingdom.

Metzman is a senior pursuing a dual degree in international studies and business in Penn’s College of Arts and Sciences and Wharton School through the Huntsman Program. Poll is a 2009 Penn graduate.

Metzman previously received a Truman Scholarship in the spring of 2011. He has demonstrated a deep personal and scholarly commitment to public service, both locally and internationally. He has traveled extensively for his studies and research while at Penn. On a recent trip to Nicaragua, he assisted a Penn Graduate School of Education research team led by Professor Sharon Ravich with its development research on a rural coffee farm, and he is now conducting the statistical analysis as a full-fledged researcher. He is co-founder of Penn’s Dorm Room Diplomacy, a cross-campus attempt to generate mutual understanding and communication between college students in the United States and the Middle East.

Metzman plans to attend the London School of Economics to pursue a master’s of science in development studies, followed by Oxford University for another MSc in evidence-based social interaction.

At Penn, Poll, the University’s other Marshall recipient, was a student member of the Penn Green Campus Partnership. Since graduating from Penn, he has studied solfège and conducting at the Curtis Institute of Music and German and History at the Freie Universität in Berlin. Poll studied, performed and lectured in Poland as a Fulbright Scholar. He has given solo musical performances locally and internationally and was a faculty member at the Bryn Mawr Conservatory of Music from 2007 through 2010.

Poll plans to attend the Royal Academy of Music to study classical guitar performance.

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