3 Harvard College Seniors Named 2025 Marshall Scholars

Three Harvard College seniors — Laila A. Nasher ’25, Ryan H. Doan-Nguyen ’25, and John Lin ’25 — were named Marshall Scholars on Monday, per a British consulate press release.

This year’s winners were selected from a pool of 983 applicants, with winners coming from 25 universities across 16 U.S. states. Harvard has more winners this year than any other academic institution in the Northeast, with three winners out of eight from the region.

A total of 36 students were selected as recipients of the 2025 Marshall Scholarships.

The Marshall Scholarship, which was established in 1953 as a memorial to former U.S. Secretary of State General George C. Marshall, awards American students with up to three years of graduate study at any university in the United Kingdom. Previous Marshall scholarship recipients include Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch and Harvard Medical School professor Dan H. Barouch ’93.

Lin, a Human Development and Regenerative Biology Concentrator in Currier House, is currently an undergraduate researcher at the Greka Lab at the Broad Institute of MIT studying rare diseases and the regulation of proteins.

Previously, Lin — a former Crimson Magazine editor — has also been involved with the Amgen Scholars Program, where he conducted research on a rare kidney disease.

Doan-Nguyen, a Mather House resident concentrating in History and Literature and Government, interned at the Associated Press last summer. Doan-Nguyen is a former Crimson News and Multimedia editor, and his magazine feature on the history of napalm at Harvard received the Associated Collegiate Press’s 2023 Story of the Year Award.

Nasher, who lives in Mather House and concentrates in History and Anthropology, was previously named as a 2024 Truman Scholar. Nasher, who founded Harvard’s First-Generation Low-Income Task Group, has led efforts to expand programming for FGLI students at Harvard. She also served as director of diversity and outreach for the Institute of Politics.

—Staff writer Neeraja S. Kumar can be reached at neeraja.kumar@thecrimson.com. Follow her on X @neerajasrikumar.