University Of Iowa Student One Of 32 American Rhodes Scholars

He is vice president of his class and a pitcher on Oberlin’s baseball team who plans to study public policy in Oxford, the Trust said.

Last spring, Ding won two prestigious undergraduate scholarships: the Truman and Udall scholarships. Rooney is the University’s first Mitchell Scholar since 2014. Almost 90 scholars are selected worldwide each year.

Kovan is one of four 2016 Rhodes Scholars from Big Ten schools. He is the only UI student to have received all three.

Mullin applied for the Rhodes scholarship after deciding to continue research on refugees.

“I spent about six months working on my application for the Rhodes, but the scholarship had been on my radar since freshman year”, said Hebert.

At Duke, Ruckelshaus serves on the Duke University Board of Trustees as a student representative, and as a senator in Duke Student Government. “He loves tennis and plays video games and is pretty obsessive about sports”. He has also cultivated strong relationships with many UI faculty members and takes a genuine interest in their research.

“You know there’s this common saying that nothing good comes out of the Delta…I’m like a living testimony -that’s not true…we can do it too”, Wheeler said. Rice is also rated as a best value among private universities by Kiplinger’s Personal Finance.

“Every student should graduate from the University of Iowa having some sort of meaningful experience that exposes them to another culture”, Blair said of the theory behind the requirement, which has not been put into effect.

Out of about a dozen students interviewed in his district – the scholarship breaks up the country into 16 districts – two were selected to receive the scholarship.

When teachers, mentors and professors describe Jeffrey Ding, there’s not just one thing that stands out. “I channel as much credit as possible to all those who’ve helped me get here, which is more than I could possibly name”.