23 Montgomery County students in the class 0f 2022 have earned college and university-sponsored National Merit Scholarships in the latest and final round of awards from the National Merit Scholarship Corporation.
Awardees are selected by each sponsoring college or university from a group of finalists in the 2022 National Merit Scholarship Program. The awards provide recipients between $500 to $2,000 annually for up to four years of undergraduate study at the institution financing the scholarship.
The winners, their intended career fields and the sponsoring university or college are:
Bethesda-Chevy Chase
- Evan M. Song, computer programming, University of Maryland
Montgomery Blair
- Malcolm D. Maas, atmospheric science, University of Maryland
- Rohan I. Ojha, computer engineering, Purdue University
- Samuel K. Verbrugge, astrophysics, University of Maryland
Winston Churchill
- Maya Bhattiprolu, healthcare, University of Maryland
- Andrew B. Liu, computer science, Vanderbilt University
- Devika Mathur, medicine, University of Maryland
- Zain A. Zarger, software engineering, University of Maryland
Walter Johnson
- Emily Hsu, medicine, Case Western Reserve University
Richard Montgomery
- Bence P. Szego, aerospace engineering, University of Maryland
- Danielle C. Martin, biology, University of Maryland
- Kenshiro E. Lim, engineering, University of Maryland
Poolesville
- Pragya S. Kumar, neuroscience, University of Maryland
- Johann M. Kuruvilla, medicine, University of Maryland
- Davy Wang, mathematics, University of Maryland
- Arun M. Ghosh, applied mathematics, Washington and Lee University
- Omar F. Khan, electrical engineering, Vanderbilt University
- Akash K. Raghu, biomedicine, University of Maryland
Quince Orchard
- Louis C. Lee, computer science, University of Maryland
Walt Whitman
- Joshua M. Lee, computer science, Boston University
- Nil Ozdemir, biology, University of Southern California
- Maxwell C. Walker, neuroscience, University of Maryland
Thomas S. Wootton
- Srirashmi Kanipakala, finance, University of Maryland
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