Four Virginian students among Rhodes Scholarship recipients

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Four Virginian students among Rhodes Scholarship recipients
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/four-virginian-students-among-rhodes-scholarship-recipients/2013/11/24/f994612e-5543-11e3-835d-e7173847c7cc_story.html

By Fredrick Kunkle, Published: November 24

Virginia has four new reasons to boast of the quality of education in the commonwealth with the announcement that two Northern Virginia natives and two University of Virginia students are among the 32 recipients of the prestigious Rhodes Scholarships this year.

Two Arlington residents and two out-of-state University of Virginia seniors will attend Oxford University for two or three years of all-expenses-paid study beginning in 2014, according to the trust that has provided scholarships through the estate of British philanthropist Cecil Rhodes since 1902.

The four Rhodes Scholars with ties the region were identified by the trust as: Brian W. McGrail of Arlington, a senior at Williams College focusing on social change and political economy and history; Emma Pierson of Arlington, who graduated in June from Stanford University after earning a bachelors degree in physics and a master’s degree in computer science; Evan B. Behrle of Oxford, Pa., a senior at the University of Virginia studying government-foreign affairs; and Charles S. Tyson, a native of Chapel Hill, N.C., and a senior at the University of Virginia, where he is a double major studying English and the history of political and social thought.

You can find the list of all U.S. Rhodes scholars at 32 Americans named Rhodes Scholars for 2014.

Behrle, Tyson awarded Rhodes Scholarship
http://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2013/11/behrle-tyson-awarded-rhodes-scholarship

Fourth-year College students will study urban poverty, British literature

by Joseph Liss | Nov 25

Fourth-year College students Evan Behrle and Charlie Tyson accepted Rhodes Scholarships Saturday. Tyson, the executive editor of The Cavalier Daily, and Behrle, the chair of the Honor Committee, are the 49th and 50th Rhodes Scholarship winners from the University.

Thirty-two students from across the United States win the coveted scholarship annually to study at Oxford University in the United Kingdom. Though multiple Rhodes Scholars were chosen this year from Harvard, Stanford and Yale, the University is just one of two public schools — along with the United States Military Academy — to notch two honorees.

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1. Hooray for...

...the Old Dominion. First, NO Cooch, now this.