by Associated Press
The latest group of U.S. Rhodes scholars includes
10 African-Americans — the most ever in a single Rhodes class — as well
as a transgender man and four students from colleges that had never had
received the honor before.
The Rhodes Trust on Saturday announced
the 32 men and women chosen for post-graduate studies at Oxford
University in England. Among them: the first black woman to lead the
Corps of Cadets at West Point; a wrestler at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology who's helping develop a prosthetic knee for use in the
developing world; and a Portland, Oregon, man who has studied gaps in
his hometown's "sanctuary city" policy protecting immigrants in the
country illegally from deportation.
"This
year's selections — independently elected by 16 committees around the
country meeting simultaneously — reflects the rich diversity of
America," Elliot F. Gerson, American secretary of the Rhodes Trust, said
in a news release announcing the winners Saturday.
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