Meet this year's 32 genius American Rhodes scholars -- including a record-setting 21 women

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Meet this year's 32 genius American Rhodes scholars — including a record-setting 21 women

MARY HANBURY
NOV 19, 2018, 12:04 PM

• Thirty-two American students have been offered the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship to study at Oxford University in the fall of 2019.
• This year’s group includes 21 women, which is the most ever in a single Rhodes class; almost half of the 32 winners are immigrants or first-generation Americans.
• Find out more about these students below.

Thirty-two ambitious American students have been offered the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship and will be heading to study at Oxford University in the fall of 2019.

The scholarship – famously won by Bill Clinton, Cory Booker, and Rachel Maddow – pays for two to three years of post-graduate study at Oxford University in England.

This year’s winners were selected from a pool of 880 applicants, whom their colleges and universities nominated for their academic excellence, ambition, and promise of leadership.

This year’s group includes 21 women, which is the most ever in a single Rhodes class; almost half of the 32 winners are immigrants or first-generation Americans. Duke, Princeton, and Yale universities each had three Rhodes scholars. ... Find out more about the winners below.

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U.S. • EDUCATION

New Rhodes Scholar Class Includes a Record Number of Women

By PHILIP MARCELO AND DEEPTI HAJELA / AP 10:02 PM EST

(BOSTON) — The latest crop of U.S. Rhodes scholars has more women than any other single class, and almost half of this year’s recipients of the prestigious scholarship to Oxford University in England are either immigrants or first-generation Americans, the Rhodes Trust announced Sunday.

Among the 32 winners is Harvard University senior Jin Park, the first recipient covered by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, the Obama-era program that shields young immigrants from deportation.

Park, 22, of the New York City borough of Queens, arrived from South Korea with his parents when he was 7, studied molecular and cellular biology at Harvard, and founded a nonprofit to help undocumented students apply to college.

He hopes to become an immigrant advocate, saying it’s important for him to use the opportunity to better others, not just himself. ... “When you grow up as an undocumented immigrant in America, that understanding that your talents don’t really belong to you in the traditional sense, that you have to share the fruits of your labor with others, that’s just something you learn,” Park said.
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American Rhodes Scholars-elect for 2019
(Subject to ratification by the Rhodes Trustees after acceptance by one of the colleges of Oxford University)

DISTRICT 1
Massachusetts
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Sarah Tress, Staten Island, New York, is a senior at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she majors in Mechanical Engineering. Sarah has maintained a grade point average of 5.0 (out of a possible 5.0). A prolific researcher and an inventor, Sarah works at the intersection of engineering and development, devising solutions to improve lives across the developing world. When she discovered the low life expectancy of wheelchair users in developing countries due to infection from pressure sores, she created Loop, a cost-effective inflatable wheelchair seat cushion made out of bike inner tubes. Sarah is the captain of the MIT Women’s Club Soccer Team and a member of the MIT DanceTroupe. At Oxford, Sarah will pursue the M.Phil. in Development Studies.
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Tennessee

Grant H. Rigney, Normandy, is a senior at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville where he is studying Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. Grant is the editor-in-chief of Pursuit, UT’s journal of undergraduate research, and has conducted research at the UT Medical Center on toxicity of PET-CT imaging agents. He volunteers at a local homeless clinic and founded the Homeless Prevention University and Community Alliance at UT. Grant’s career aspirations involve providing leadership and policy advocacy in support of the “safety net” hospitals as a practitioner, researcher, and administrative leader. He is a licensed private pilot, a Certified Nurse’s Assistant, triathlete, and internationally recognized bluegrass musician on the fiddle and mandolin. He will pursue masters degrees in Global Health Science and Epidemiology and Evidence-Based Social Intervention and Policy Evaluation.
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PLEASE NOTE: Given the time challenge and complexity of 16 concurrent district selections across the United States, initial versions of the short bios and winners’ list included with this press release may contain small errors, typographical and otherwise. Most are corrected within 24 hours, so always check www.rhodesscholar.org for the most up-to-date versions. In addition, you may find photos of the winners on the global Rhodes Trust website, www.rhodestrust.ox.ac.uk, where they will be uploaded as soon as practicable.

They're all like that.

[niyad]

1. kand r

[dawg day]

2. This is why so many white guys feel oppressed.

The patriarchy knew it all along. Let women and marginalized people in, and theyll take over, because they're better, and because they try harder.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

4. Either that, or they're equal, and they'll try as hard. NT

[hack89]

3. The first Rhode Scholar from the U of Kentucky in 63 years is named Hadeel Abdallah

some good old boy heads are going to explode.