Two Ohio University students, Jessica Benson and Natalie Kruse, have been named as winners of the prestigious Marshall Scholarship.

Benson, who plans to pursue a doctorate in bioengineering and biophysics research, is a senior in the Honors Tutorial College, majoring in Engineering Physics. Kruse is a Civil Engineering major, with a minor in Geology, in the Russ College of Engineering. Both have also been named as finalists for the Rhodes Scholarship.

Benson and Kruse are the first two students from Ohio University to receive this award.