Mercer Times

Recent Princeton graduates Yuno Iwasaki and Ananya Agustin Malhotra have been named recipients of the 2024 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans, a merit-based graduate school program for immigrants and children of immigrants. The fellowship, which aims to support individuals with the potential to make significant contributions to the United States, selected 30 fellows this year from a pool of 2,323 applicants.

Yuno Iwasaki, who graduated in the Class of 2023, shared her excitement about the opportunity, stating, "I will use the grant to support my work towards a Ph.D. in physics at the University of California, Berkeley." Iwasaki, whose background includes a Japanese father and a Romanian mother, conducted groundbreaking research during her time at Princeton and was awarded the Kusaka Memorial Prize in Physics for her senior thesis on electromagnetic filters.

Ananya Agustin Malhotra, a member of the Class of 2020, expressed her gratitude for the fellowship, mentioning, "The grant will support my pursuit of a J.D. degree at Yale Law School." Malhotra, whose parents hail from India and the Philippines, majored in the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton and holds a master's in modern European history from Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar.

Both Iwasaki and Malhotra have demonstrated exceptional dedication to their fields of study and community engagement, making them deserving recipients of the prestigious Soros Fellowship.