Princeton graduates Yuno Iwasaki and Ananya Agustin Malhotra awarded Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships

Yuno Iwasaki ’23 and Ananya Agustin Malhotra ’20 were named recipients of the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans, a merit-based graduate school program for immigrants and children of immigrants. Soros fellows receive funding to support their graduate studies at institutions across the country and are “recognized for their achievements and their potential to make meaningful contributions to the United States across fields of study,” according to the fellowship. This year, 30 fellows were selected from 2,323 applicants.

Iwasaki, the daughter of a Japanese father and a Romanian mother, immigrated from Japan as a high school sophomore. At Princeton, she majored in physics and pursued a wide variety of subfields through her undergraduate research. This inspired her to develop experimental techniques for testing theoretical predictions of fundamental physics. Iwasaki’s senior thesis was on her original design of an electromagnetic filter to detect relic neutrinos and was awarded the Kusaka Memorial Prize in Physics. She will use the grant to support her work towards a Ph.D. in physics at the University of California, Berkeley.

Malhotra, the daughter of immigrants from India and the Philippines, was a concentrator in the School of Public and International Affairs, with certificates in European cultural studies, and French language and culture. Malhotra served as president of the Sexual Harassment/Assault Advising, Resources, and Education (SHARE) Peer Program and was a Humanistic Studies mentor for first-year students. Her international experience included serving as a legal research intern with the European Roma Rights Centre in Budapest through the International Internship Program (IIP). As a Rhodes Scholar, Malhotra earned her M.Phil. in modern European history at Oxford. The grant will support her J.D. degree at Yale University.

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