Three Duke seniors, Daniel Ehrlich, Sarah Konrad and Marie-Hélène Tomé, were named recipients of the prestigious Marshall Scholarship, making Duke the second-largest producer of recipients over any other institution across the country this year.
The recipients were selected out of 983 applicants and are accompanied by 33 other students from universities across the country. The Marshall Scholarship is a full-ride program for American undergraduates that covers up to three years of graduate study in the United Kingdom.
Ehrlich, a computer science and chemistry major, plans to attend Cambridge University. He currently is conducting research with Heather Stapleton, Ronie-Richele Garcia-Johnson distinguished professor, on applying analytical chemistry techniques to evaluate environmental health exposures, particularly per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) on firefighters.
Throughout his time at Duke, he has served as an intern for the National Institute of Health and is a member of the Jewish Student Union.
Konrad, a history major with minors in computer science and French studies, plans on studying at the University of St. Andrews.
She is a Nakayama Public Service Scholar and a Faculty Scholar, as well as a researcher and author for the Duke Institutional History Project. In one of her projects, she researched the relationships between the wives of Trinity College’s Board of Trustees and how they benefited from slavery. At Duke, she has conducted research in the history and English departments, as well as through a Bass Connections team.
Tomé, a mathematics major — whose interests particularly lie in algebraic and analytic number theory — also plans to attend Cambridge. Tomé authored a paper in the Journal of Number Theory where she was able to answer a conjecture of German mathematician Erich Hecke that had been open since 1920.
In her home state of New York, she has volunteered to help develop math curricula at local elementary and middle schools, and at Duke has served as a teaching assistant in multiple courses across the math department.
Tomé is also the recipient of the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, the Alice T. Schafer Prize by the Association of Women in Mathematics and is a Faculty Scholar.
Duke has produced 36 Marshall Scholarship recipients since the program’s 1953 inception. The 2024 winner was Logan Glasstetter, Trinity ‘22.
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Abby Spiller is a Trinity junior and editor-in-chief of The Chronicle's 120th volume.