“I am delighted that two Duke students have been chosen as Rhodes Scholars this year”, President Richard Brodhead said in a press release Sunday. A double major in English and history, Wheeler says she was inspired to become a physician after watching her grandfather suffer from Alzheimer’s disease.
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“I remember him saying the chances weren’t very great at all, but it would be good process to go through”, Wheeler said.
They will join a group of worldwide students and will head to Oxford University for post-graduate studies.
“Laura has a staying power, a capacity not just to engage an interest but to deepen it, broaden it, find new questions and contexts, and develop finer grained and more nuanced interpretations”, said Thomas Robisheaux, Fred W. Schaffer Professor of History at Duke.
“I’m interested in increasing the number of diverse people in STEM fields”, she said.
“Being named a Rhodes Scholar is an incredibly fantastic and humbling experience, and I couldn’t have gained this recognition without the unending support from the MSU community”, Kovan said. The other Rhodes Scholar from Duke is John Ruckelshaus of Indianapolis. She was also a research assistant to chemistry associate professor Marya Lieberman on the Paper Analytic Device (PAD) project and a research assistant to sociology professor Christian Smith on the Science of Generosity project.
A MI State University senior is among 32 Americans selected as Rhodes scholars.
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The first class of American Rhodes Scholars entered Oxford in 1904; Carroll and the other scholars elected this year will enter Oxford in October 2016. The 22-year-old economics major, who is working on research related to the federal food stamp program, plans to pursue a degree in applied statistics.
