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Sunday, November 21, 2004
Rhodes Trust names 32 American students to study at Oxford
AP Education Writer November 21, 2004, 1:48 PM EST Thirty-two American college students, including three from New York City, have been selected as Rhodes Scholars for 2005, the scholarship trust announced Sunday. The scholars, chosen from 904 applicants who were endorsed by 341 colleges and universities, will enter Oxford University in England next October. The scholarships, the oldest of the international study awards available to American students, provide two or three years of study at Oxford.
Mutter has spent much of the last year working in public health in Haiti and plans to study how global religious communities confront problems like poverty and disease. Among the scholars were Lev A. Sviridov of New York City, from City College of the City University of New York; Eugene Shenderov of Brooklyn, from CUNY Brooklyn; and Ian Desai of Brooklyn, from the University of Chicago. Other winners include a Paralympic gold medalist in basketball and a political philosopher who has worked on a pathogen to control the invasive kudzu plant. Harvard University had five winners, and the U.S. Naval Academy had three. Rhodes Scholarships were created in 1902 by the will of British philanthropist Cecil Rhodes. Winners are selected on the basis of high academic achievement, personal integrity, leadership potential and physical vigor, among other attributes. The American students will join an international group of scholars selected from 18 other nations around the world. Approximately 95 scholars are selected each year. Anastasia Piliavsky of Boston, who graduated from Boston University in 2004 with a degree in social anthropology, was one of three winners who immigrated to the United States from states in the former Soviet Union. Piliavsky came to the United States from Ukraine when she was 14 and spoke no English. She has won numerous awards and travel grants for her academic work and has conducted anthropological field study in India and Mongolia. She has also shot and translated a documentary film about the indigenous Sahariya people of India. With the elections announced Sunday, 3,046 Americans have won Rhodes Scholarships, representing 307 colleges and universities. The value of the Rhodes Scholarship varies depending on the field of study. The total value averages about $35,000 per year. ___P> On the Net: http://www.rhodesscholar.org Subscribe to Newsday home delivery
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