The scholarships cover all expenses for two or three years of post-graduate study at England’s Oxford University starting next October. He’s also a former U.S. State Department intern, UI student government vice president, national high school debate champion and triple major in economics, political science and Chinese – and he’s also getting a certificate in global business.
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Two students from CT are among 32 Americans named as Rhodes scholars for the 2016 academic year. “It’s going to give me an awesome opportunity to study at Oxford and build relationships with outstanding students from USA and around the world”.
A MI State University student has been selected for the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship.
“I’m planning on studying the influence of microbes in the guts on brain biology and their relevance to mental illness”, she said, explaining how recent research has found that certain bacteria in the gastrointestinal tract might influence the brain. The scholarships are worth about $50,000 per year. First, applicants must be endorsed by their college or university.
“The field of human rights is so new, and so I think there’s a lot to be learned from the lessons of the past”, she said.
“You know there’s this common saying that nothing good comes out of the Delta…I’m like a living testimony -that’s not true…we can do it too”, Wheeler said.
“I feel a mix of excitement and gratefulness”, Ding writes via email from Beijing, where he’s enrolled in Peking University’s School of Economics.
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“I am honored and humbled to have been selected as a Rhodes Scholar”, Roberts said Saturday evening. The Trust says she is “extraordinarily active” in volunteer service. She was a Dean’s Fellow in the College of Arts and Letters as well as a Kellogg Institute worldwide Scholar. Jackson is the only black woman in her five-year civil engineering class at Northeastern. Jay Ruckelshaus, of Indianapolis, plans to pursue a master’s of philosophy degree in political theory.
