ANN ARBOR— Benjamin Novick of Ann Arbor, a senior at the University of Michigan Residential College, has been awarded a Marshall Scholarship for two years of study at a British university. He was one of 40 American students from among 800 applicants to receive the scholarship, established in 1953 by the British government as a national gesture of thanks to the people of the United States for assistance after World War II under the Marshall Plan.

A history major in the Honors Program at U-M, Novick will study modern history at the University of Oxford. He has a special interest in Irish involvement in World War I. In addition to maintaining a 4.0 grade point average, Novick has been a bass clarinetist in the Ann Arbor Civic and Concert bands, has served as a music teacher in summer programs for the Ann Arbor public schools and was a band counselor at the Interlochen Center for the Performing Arts. A volunteer at Ann Arbor Community Television Network, he also founded a club that choreographs stage combats and dramatic fencing.

At U-M, Novick has been the vice chair of the Michigan Student Assembly‘s Student Rights Commission, served on the board of editors of the campus humor magazine, and on Residential College and Department of History curriculum committees, and is a member of Phi Alpha Theta, the national history honor society. Novick also holds a first degree Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do. According to the British Consulate-General in Chicago, ” he has the makings of a first class historian in research, scholarship and teaching ability. This outstanding candidate will become a leading academic or journalist.”

Honors Program

Interlochen Center for the Performing Arts

Michigan Student Assembly