Scholars in the News
The editor and webmaster make every effort to be as inclusive as possible when noting Rhodes Scholars and Oxonians in the news. Many items listed here may also be published in the "For The Record" section of the print edition of The American Oxonian. Notices for web and print listings of scholars in the news may be sent to webmaster@americanrhodes.org.
Little Rock, ArkansasPress Release
March 2, 2010
Tom Robinson
HamptonRoads.com
February 28, 2010
U.C. Berkeley Professor's Nomination Welcomed
CNN
February 25, 2010
The Washington Post
February 15, 2010
Carries flag of Bermuda in the opening ceremonies
Vancouver, Canada
February 15, 2010
Film Portrays Tolstoy's Marriage
Dana Oland
The Idaho Statesman
February 14, 2010
Peter Goldson
Jamaica, W.I.
The Gleaner
February 12, 2010
Truly, he was a Rhodes Scholar extraordinaire, embodying and exemplifying to the highest degree the standards by which Rhodes Scholars were to be judged.
John Zenor
Mobile, AL
Associated Press
January 29, 2010
Myron Rolle has a pretty impressive Plan B if football doesn’t work out.
Roanoke, VA Native Returns as Keynote Speaker
http://www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/wb/233489
The Roanoke Times
January 18, 2010
AP Reports on IG Fine's Findings
The Associated Press
January 4, 2010
Staunton native named Rhodes Scholar
December 31, 2009
Many, one would assume, do it for the prestige. Tyler Spencer applied for a Rhodes Scholarship as a matter of practicality.
December 23, 2009
Poet Scott Bear Don’t Walk, who shares his story of deciding, ultimately, to leave Oxford and the Scholarship behind.
Lee Hawkins
Oxford, England
Wall Street Journal
December 21, 2009
Myron Rolle put off an NFL career to spend a year as a Rhodes scholar. But his year at Oxford University is doubling as a one-man marketing experiment – can his career as a pitchman start a year before his career as a player?
Hanne Armstrong
New Brunswick's Urban Voice
December 17, 2009
"It's starting to become real," says Mount Allison University's latest Rhodes Scholar Susan Humphrey. "I'm really honoured and overwhelmed, but excited at...
Barbara Hoffert
Library Journal
December 17, 2009
Rhodes scholar. Army captain. White House Fellow. One of Crain's “Top Young Business Leaders.” And one of People's “Most Eligible Bachelors.
Mycah Pleasant
The Ledger
December 16, 2009
ROXANNE BRAS, of the US Army Corps of Engineers, who is a Rhodes Scholar and Harvard graduate, talks to 35 girls who are students at All Saints' Academy on ...
Bloomington, Indiana
Indiana University
December 16, 2009
Indiana University senior Mutsa Mutembwa has been named a 2010 Rhodes Scholar to represent her native Zimbabwe.
The Almanac Online
December 16, 2009
He was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University from 1933 to 1936. After four years of apprenticeship in London in international banking, he returned to the ...
Evan Woodbery
Press-Register - al.com (blog)
December 15, 2009
We talked to Auburn Rhodes Scholar Jordan Anderson during Iron Bowl week, so it was an understandably difficult time to squeeze a feature ...
Philadelphia
Penn
December 14, 2009
Sarah-Jane Littleford, a 2009 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, has been awarded a Rhodes Scholarship for study at Oxford ...
A learning center is helping to get children off the streets and on to better lives.
Philadelphia Inquirer
December 13, 2009
Janelle Larson and Paul Maina King'uru have teamed up to support Children and Youth Empowerment Centre in Nyeri, Kenya.
Los Angeles Times
December 11, 2009
Matea Gold
Los Angeles Times
December 11, 2009
It's an unexpected trajectory for a Rhodes scholar who studied political theology at Oxford -- one that even he says he couldn't have predicted.
Joshua Robinson
New York Times
December 9, 2009
One American Hill has failed to recruit is Myron Rolle, the former Florida State safety who is studying at Oxford as a Rhodes scholar.
December 9, 2009
The Rhodes Project – the first study of Rhodes Scholar women, their lives, challenges, and successes - presents two new articles.
Elisabeth Mistretta
Chicago Daily Herald
December 7, 2009
Through a haze of sleep, Shih learned he was one of 30 American students selected this fall as a 2010 Rhodes scholar. "When I really woke up, I asked my dad ...
Betterbed second PSD graduate to receive honor in as many years
TheNewsTribune.com
December 5, 2009
A local US Military Academy cadet can now add Rhodes Scholar to her ever-growing resume. Elizabeth Betterbed, a Gig Harbor High School graduate from Fox ...
Yasmine Phillips
PerthNow
December 5, 2009
A YOUNG volunteer who has taught Aboriginal children and helped find emergency accommodation for refugees has been named wa's second Rhodes Scholar this ...
Amelia Possanza
Swarthmore College The Phoenix Online
December 3, 2009
Mark Dlugash '08 was recently named a Rhodes Scholar. Thirty-two Americans were awarded the scholarship for two years of study at the ...
John Altavilla
Hartford Courant
December 3, 2009
Established in 1902, the Rhodes Scholarship is awarded yearly to 32 university and college scholars from 16 districts in the nation.
Yvon Gauvin
Times and Transcript
December 3, 2009
The other Rhodes Scholar is Rosanne Nicol of Hamilton, Ont., currently studying at Halifax's King's College. Susan becomes the 48th student at Mount Allison ...
Jeff Miller, Guest Contributor
The Daily Princetonian
December 3, 2009
In a recent article in The Daily Princetonian concerning the fact that Princeton has not produced as many Rhodes Scholars in the 2000s as have a few other ...
Elizabeth Koch
Truman Index
December 3, 2009
Senior Andrew McCall became the first Truman student to be named a Rhodes scholar on Nov 23. He was one of 32 national recipients.
Marissa Meredyth
University of Pittsburgh The Pitt News
November 30, 2009
Ott, who graduated from Pitt in April, was one of 12 people in the region and 216 in the country who was interviewed for the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship.
Cynthia Lee
UC Los Angeles
November 30, 2009
Elizaveta Fouksman, ucla's 12th Rhodes Scholar, will enter Oxford University next October to pursue graduate studies in global development.
Ira Porter
The News Journal
November 26, 2009
My husband said, 'She's a Rhodes Scholar.' I had to pull over." "She has a good heart," she said of her daughter. "I think that's what I like best about her ...
The Georgetown Voice
November 25, 2009
Tyler Spencer (GRD `09), a 23-year-old, recent alum of Georgetown's graduate school, was awarded a 2009 Rhodes Scholarship along with 31 other American ...
Richard Deitsch
SI.com
November 25, 2009
As a Rhodes Scholar, Rolle earned arguably the most prestigious postgraduate academic scholarship in the world, joining the likes of famous alumni such as ...
Iricka Berlinger
Tallahassee.com
November 25, 2009
... double majoring in brain and cognitive sciences and literature; future neurologist working to understand Alzheimer's disease; and now, a Rhodes Scholar, ...
Staunton News Leader
November 25, 2009
Spencer was named a Rhodes Scholar on Sunday. It is one of the highest academic honors in the world. The scholarships were created in the will of Cecil ...
Chris Kenrick
Palo Alto Online
November 25, 2009
"I risked being the aberration," said Shih, a Stanford senior who this week was selected as a Rhodes Scholar. He will study in England next fall at Oxford ...
Rick Howlett
WFPL
November 25, 2009
University of Louisville graduate Monica Marks is preparing for a move to England next year, where she'll enroll at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar.
Adam Yosim
ABC News
November 24, 2009
Henry Spelman and Libby Longino are both heading to Oxford next year, joining 30 other students from the US who were selected as Rhodes Scholars.
Heather Kays
Staunton News Leader
November 24, 2009
Bringman said she feels it is these qualities that led him to being named a Rhodes Scholar on Sunday, a scholarship that will allow him to travel to Oxford ...
Kansas City Star
November 24, 2009
A Lawrence woman who attends the University of Pittsburgh has been selected as a 2010 Rhodes scholar. A Truman State University student from St. Louis also ...
Five Harvard undergrads selected for the prestigious Rhodes scholarship
Matt E. Sachs
Cambridge, MA
The Harvard Crimson
November 23, 2009
Daniel Shih, Russell Perkins and Stephanie Bell are heading for Oxford next year
Noreen S Ahmedullah
Chicago, IL
Chicago Tribune
November 23, 2009
Paige Hewitt
Houston Chronicle
November 23, 2009
Mo, a 21-year-old student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is one of two Texans and 32 scholars nationally to earn the prestigious academic honors.
Jan Hefler
Philadelphia Inquirer
November 23, 2009
Charles Huckabee
The Chronicle of Higher Education
November 22, 2009
Tim Perone
New York Post
November 22, 2009
A West Point student from Manhattan is among the winners of this year's Rhodes Scholarships, it was announced this morning.
Matthew Campbell and Dan Hart
Bloomberg
November 22, 2009
The Rhodes Scholarship is given in 15 international jurisdictions for study at the University of Oxford in the UK, and can be worth as much as $175000 ...
Megan Matteucci
Cobb County, GA
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
November 22, 2009
The Associated Press
Montclair, NJ
nj.com
November 22, 2009
Karen Kane
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
November 22, 2009
University of Pittsburgh student Eleanor M. Ott, a triple major in chemistry, history, and French, has been named a 2010 Rhodes Scholar.
Doug Blackburn
Tallahassee.com
November 22, 2009
Florida State University's almost magical streak with Rhodes Scholar finalists was ...
Carmen Lu
New Haven, CT
Yale Daily News
November 22, 2009
Brent Ainsworth
Belvedere, MO
Contra Costa Times
November 22, 2009
Charles Goldberg
The Birmingham News - al.com
November 21, 2009
He is the fourth Auburn student to be named a Rhodes Scholar. Anderson was a member of last year's Auburn national championship team, is a two-time SEC ...
Elliot Gerson Publishes Op Ed in The Washington Post
Elliot Gerson
The Washington Post
November 2009
CBS 4
November 21, 2009
Andrews has coached future NFL players like Deion Sanders, Derrick Brooks, Andre Wadsworth, Peter Boulware and a Rhodes scholar, Myron Rolle.
Joseph Gerth
Louisville Courier-Journal
November 21, 2009
Today the University of Louisville graduate is the state's latest Rhodes scholar, the winner of one of the most coveted awards in academia.
Government of Jamaica, Jamaica Information Service
November 21, 2009
Twenty-two year old University of the West Indies (UWI) student, Alecia Johns, is the 2010 recipient of the prestigious Rhodes scholarship.
"Judges Scrutinize Adviser Pay"
Adam Liptak
The New York Times
November 3, 2009
Politico Profiles Jim Himes (D-Conn)
Anne Schroeder Mullins
Politico
November 3, 2009
An NAACP Chapter of a Different Hue
Krissah Thompson
The Washington Post
November 2, 2009
Ambassador Rice Argues That U.S. Standing in the World Has Improved Since Obama Took Office
The Daily Show
November 2009
Myron Rolle Chooses Oxford, Becomes Role Model
Pete Thamel
New York Times
October 25, 2009
Ebrahim Patel (IL & Lady Margaret Hall ‘98)
Bill George
U.S.News & World Report
October 22, 2009
Eboo Patel, founder of a national movement promoting interfaith religious cooperation and one of President Barack Obama's advisers on faith, is tackling what he considers the "color line" of the 21st century: the faith line. While Patel's soft-spoken charm may hide his Rhodes scholar intellect, there is nothing understated about his strikingly ambitious vision for global religious pluralism.
George Stephanopoulos (OH & Balliol ’84)
Politico
October 18, 2009
George Stephanopoulos will be the primary substitute for Diane Sawyer when she becomes anchor of “World News” next year, expanding his already formidable command of the airways as ABC’s chief Washington correspondent and anchor of “This Week.”
NPR
September 27, 2009
President Chris Howard, President of Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, attended the Air Force Academy. His resume includes Rhodes Scholar, Oxford Ph.D., Harvard MBA, vice president at GE and head of the honors college at the University of Oklahoma.
Mr. Lugar goes to Washington and gets things done
Evansville Courier & Press
September 27, 2009
Received an honors degree in politics, philosophy and economics from Oxford University in England after studying there as a Rhodes Scholar.
September 22, 2009
Susan Rice (Maryland/DC and New College '86) credited with resurrecting U.S. role at United Nations
New York Tiimes
September 22, 2009
September 1, 2009
August 18, 2009
Dr. Ann Olivarius's letter to the Rhodes community
June 5, 2009
Professorship is being billed as a turning point in the prestigious university's history
Ed Pilkington
Cambridge, MA
The Guardian
June 3, 2009
May 28, 2009
Chris Frates
Washington, D.C.
Politico, Capitol News Company
May 26, 2009
March 16, 2009
