The Truman Foundation, dedicated to former President Harry S. Truman, finds and recognizes college juniors with exceptional leadership potential and intellectual ability who are committed to careers in public service. Rooted in President Truman's belief that education promotes the general welfare of our country, the scholarship is committed to encouraging future ‘‘change-agents” of America.

Scholars are required to work in public service for three of the seven years following completion of a Foundation-funded graduate degree program. Scholarships provide support up to $30,000 for graduate school.

Grant, an honors political science major with a minor in Spanish, is the academy’s 18th Truman Scholar. A native of Washington D.C., she is a member of 25th Company and stands in the top two percent of her class. She has served as a student director for the Midshipman Action Group, the student service organization at the academy, and as a delegate at the Naval Academy Foreign Affairs Conference.

Grant has held a wide variety of important midshipman leadership posts while at the academy, included regimental operations sergeant and company academic sergeant.

Honan is a native of Fairfax, Va., and is the academy’s 19th Truman Scholar. He is a systems engineering major and serves as the fourth battalion sergeant major. In this position he is responsible for the welfare and daily lives of 700 midshipmen.

In 2008, Honan was the recipient of the Anwarul Quadir Prize, a Harvard University Center for International Development-sponsored global essay contest for an innovative and practical idea that would improve the lives of low income people in Bangladesh. On his own time he researched and wrote an essay, titled ‘‘Innovative Approach to Providing Safe Water to Bangladesh,” which proposes a solution to remove arsenic from drinking water that could benefit as many as 88 million people in Bangladesh.