Congratulations to Middlebury’s newest Schwarzman Scholars, Abdijabar Mohamed ‘18.5 and Elsa Alvarado ’18! Elsa and Abdi will join the class of 2020 at Schwarzman College at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China in August. This year, 147 scholars were selected from over 2,800 applicants. This fourth class of Schwarzman scholars comes from 38
countries and 119 universities, with 40% originating from the United States, 20% from China, and 40% from the rest of the world.
Abdijabar Mohamed ‘18.5 and Elsa Alvarado ’18
The purpose of the Schwarzman Scholars program is to “bring together the world’s best young minds to explore and understand the economic, political and cultural factors that have contributed to China’s increasing importance as a global power, and to make them more effective as links between China and the rest of the world.” Read more: https://www.schwarzmanscholars.org/news-article/schwarzman-scholars-announces-class-of-2020/