OH students in Rhodes Scholars’ Class of 2016

Two NY City men are among the 32 American college students chosen as Rhodes scholars, the Rhodes Trust announced Sunday. “Without a doubt, the Rhodes Scholarship offers the ideal path for me to fulfill that life vision devoted to social justice through the health system”.

Jackson has also been a leader in community services relating to local refugees in Kentucky, low-income housing and employment, tutoring and mentoring. While studying overseas at Hebrew University, Kovan spent her free time serving in Israel’s national ambulance corps.

The Rhodes scholarships are worth about $50,000 per year for up to three years.

When she was selected, she said, “At first I didn’t believe my ears”.

MI State University senior Sarah Kovan, from Okemos, has been named a 2016 Rhodes Scholar.

Last spring, Ding won two prestigious undergraduate scholarships: the Truman and Udall scholarships.

Neil Alacha, of Queens, and Andrew Kaplan, of Manhattan, will join a group of worldwide students and will head to Oxford University in England starting next October for post-graduate studies.

Higgins plans to pursue a master of philosophy degree in geography and the environment at Oxford.

This summer Ruckelshaus worked as a Montgomery Research Fellow for the American Bar Foundation in Chicago, where he investigated the legal history of lunch counter sit-in movements during the Civil Rights era. As a research assistant at Duke, he has studied ways of conceptualizing political party corruption around the world.

The Rhodes Trust said Dahir has been very active in inter-faith efforts in OH and throughout the world.