Two students from the University of Chicago and one from Northwestern University are among the 2026 Marshall Scholars, the British government announced.

Logan Hanssler, a Buffalo Grove native and senior at the University of Chicago, remembered he was on a break, chatting with a friend about the Marshall Scholarship, when he got a call from a number he didn’t recognize.

“I know to expect a strange call, and I just had a feeling,” Hanssler said. “I picked up and it was the chair of the committee saying that I got the scholarship, and I just like, fell to my knees.”

Hanssler, along with Elijah Jenkins of the University of Chicago and Ethan Barnes of Northwestern University, is among the 43 students who have been selected as Marshall Scholars this year. The Marshall Scholars were publicly a

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