Irena Petryk, of Morton Grove, is a senior at Northwestern University. Lauren Kim, of Chicago, is a senior at Harvard University.
Big congratulations are in order for two women from the Chicago area who have been selected as Rhodes Scholars, allowing them to continue their post-graduate education at the University of Oxford.
The scholars' financial expenses for two to three years of study – averaging about $75,000 per year – are covered by the Rhodes Trust, a British charity established to fulfill the bequest of Cecil Rhodes, a founder of diamond mining and manufacturing company De Beers. After receiving the endorsements of their schools, most of the district committees chose 14 or more applicants for online interviews. The committees met separately Nov. 10-12 through a virtual platform and promoted 235 finalists from 73 colleges and universities, including nine schools that have not previously had a student win the scholarship, although there were no first-time winning institutions, the trust said.
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