Austin resident among Americans chosen as Rhodes Scholars

She is the 17th IU student to receive the Rhodes Scholarship.

I was so shocked when they announced my name.

“It’s hard to describe it”, said Dunleavy, also 22.

A college student from OH is among the 32 Americans chosen as Rhodes Scholars to pursue post-graduate studies at Oxford University.

Previous Rhodes Scholars include former President Bill Clinton and current Defense Secretary Ash Carter.

A Maryland woman who attends the University of Virginia, a Johns Hopkins University senior and a Naval Academy midshipman are among 32 Americans selected as this year’s Rhodes Scholars.

“I am fascinated with what influences non-violent populations to begin endorsing and engaging in violence, the strength of social bonds within violent organizations, how resources shape organizational structure and the types of relationships non-state armed groups form with civilians”, Courchesne said in a release from her university. “I’m thrilled, and I’m really excited to go to Oxford”.

Shea is already an accomplished scholar. She said she’s inspired by her parents and the African-American poet, writer, feminist, lesbian, and civil rights activist Audre Lorde. She was just 18 at the time.

Last year Doyle spent a semester studying in Puebla, Mexico, where she had an internship at a hospital.

Koseff, who was among the Stanford faculty members who recommended Shea for the Rhodes Scholarship, added, “She is never still for a moment, always seeking, questioning, innovating and thinking about the ocean that she loves so passionately. I always wanted to take every opportunity I was given and absolutely do the most I felt I could with it”.

This undated photo provided by Mikaila Smith shows the soon-to-be graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, who is one of 32 Americans named Sunday, Nov. 20, 2016, as Rhodes Scholars who will pursue post-graduate studies at Oxford University.

“I want to be on the front line as a family doctor in a working class neighborhood, but I also want to do research that can serve other communities around the country”, he said. “In a resource-scarce media environment, I want to understand how humanitarians working in conflict zones can facilitate better foreign correspondence to more accurately shape public opinion and global policy in the United States and the United Kingdom”. “He’s definitely someone you root for”, he said. “I feel the obligation to give back”.