The 32 recipients include students from 19 states and the District of Columbia attending 20 U.S. colleges and universities.
FILE – People walk around Oxford University’s campus on Sept. 3, 2017, in Oxford, England. have been selected to attend the University of Oxford as part of the prestigious Rhodes scholar program in the coming year among an international class representing more than 70 nations, scholarship officials announced.
Ramona L. Doyle, American secretary of the Rhodes Trust, said in the statement that in addition to academic excellence, “a Rhodes Scholar should also have great ambition for social impact, and an uncommon ability to work with others to achieve one’s goals.” At Brown University, Ariana Palomo, of McKinney, Texas, works at its Student Clinic for Immigrant Justice, and her research interests include immigration policy. She also is lead violinist for Rhode Island’s only mariachi group.
Paras Bassuk has published research on child development while studying psychology at the University of Iowa and serving as a local LGBTQ+ leader and with two transgender rights groups. They also are a jazz drummer, bass guitarist and classical bassist.The U.S. students include the first Rhodes scholars chosen from Eastern Mennonite University in Virginia and the first from California’s Pepperdine University.
Four recipients are from the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New York, the most selected from the service academy in one year since 1959. One of them, Sarah Cao, from Plymouth, Minnesota, is part of a collegiate skydiving championship team at West Point. The Coe College student, Katherine Ameku, of Independence, Missouri, is a senior majoring in mathematics and statistics who is also Missouri’s youngest elected official. She serves as a Democratic precinct committee member.
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