Amina Ahmad ’22, Justin Curl ’22, and Katie Dykstra ’22, as well as alumni Edric Huang ’18 and Nick Keeley ’16, have been awarded the Schwarzman Scholarship, which will fund their graduate study at Tsinghua University in Beijing in 2022.
These five Princetonians are a part of a Schwarzman cohort of 151 scholars from 33 different countries and 106 universities. The scholarship program, founded by Blackstone investment firm co-founder Stephen Schwarzman, allows recipients to pursue a one-year master’s degree in Global Affairs.
The program, now in its sixth year, was inspired by the Rhodes Scholarship and is “designed to meet the challenges of the 21st century and beyond.” As part of the highly selective program, scholars will live in Beijing for a year while studying at Tsinghua University, which is “ranked first in Asia as an indispensable base for China’s political, business, and technological leadership.” The immersive scholarship program aims to “[cultivate] the next generation of leaders.”
Amina Ahmad, a senior in the School of Public and International Affairs from Lahore, Pakistan, cited her Pakistani background as one of her major reasons for applying to the program.
Ahmad explained in an interview with the ‘Prince’ that the Pakistani media “present[s] this homogenous, overwhelmingly positive narrative about what China means to Pakistan, but then if you really look into it and dig deeper into the research, you find out [for example] that there’s a lot of minority...
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