Two From CT Among 32 Chosen As Rhodes Scholars

Jeffrey Ding of Iowa City was one of the winners announced Sunday out of 869 applicants.

Ashley E. Orr of Columbiana will receive a scholarship covering all expenses for two or three years of study at the University of Oxford in England.

She plans to study for a master’s in social anthropology while overseas, and eventually earn her doctorate in anthropology.

The Rhodes Scholarships were created in 1902 by the will of Cecil Rhodes, British philanthropist and African colonial pioneer, and are provided in partnership with the Second Century Founder, John McCall MacBain and other generous benefactors.

He is also a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity, policy chair for One in Four, a bible study leader for the Reformed University Fellowship and a former Opinion editor at The Cavalier Daily. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security sent her to represent the United States at an worldwide discussion in Brussels on countering violent extremism. She plans to study medical anthropology at Oxford. “I am confident that there will be more YSU Rhodes Scholars”.

“I’m working on a paper right now”, he said by phone Monday.

“I’ve spent pretty much the last five years being as far away from home as possible”, she said.

YSU said it is only the fourth public university in OH to have a student win the award in the Rhodes’ 112-year history, joining Ohio State University, Miami University and the University of Cincinnati. “They’re the best people in the universe for doing what he wants to do”, said Kelly Thornburg, UI’s director of scholar development for the honors program. “Oxford is the hub of all the things I really care about”. In 2014, he received one of 50 national Morris K. and Stewart L. Udall scholarships for outstanding potential and a commitment to pursuing environmental careers.