Two Northwestern Students Named Rhodes Scholars

Anna Yermakova, of Buffalo Grove, is a senior at Northwestern, where she majors in biochemistry, piano, and history and philosophy of science and logic.

Her family emigrated to the United States from Russia when she was 11 years old.

 She has won national awards for piano and French, has done research in chemical engineering and nanotechnology at the University of Washington, neuroscience at Northwestern, and biomedical engineering at the University of Chicago, and has competed in ballroom dancing, salsa and flamenco.

At Oxford, Anna will do a doctorate in mathematical biology.

Mallory A. Dwinal, of Gig Harbor, Washington, is a senior at Northwestern with majors in Spanish, economics, and international studies.

She also studied in Qinghua University in Beijing.

In 2006, Mallory founded a program that coordinates and funds English as a second language education in Chicago elementary schools.

Since 2006, she has been leader of a daily meals program at a homeless shelter. She plans to do the M.Phil. in comparative and international education at Oxford.  

Rhodes Scholarships provide all expenses for two or three years of study at the University of Oxford in England, and may allow funding for four years. The total value of the scholarship averages approximately $50,000 per year.

They were created in 1902 by the will of Cecil Rhodes, British philanthropist and African colonial pioneer.

The first class of American Rhodes Scholars entered Oxford in 1904; those elected now will enter Oxford in October 2009.

Women have only been eligible to apply for the scholarship since 1976; so far, 408 American women have won the coveted scholarship.

Two Northwestern Students Named Rhodes Scholars

CHICAGO -- Two Northwestern University women students -- one from Buffalo Grove, one from Washington state -- have been named Rhodes Scholars.

 Anna Yermakova, of Buffalo Grove, is a senior at Northwestern, where she majors in biochemistry, piano, and history and philosophy of science and logic.

Her family emigrated to the United States from Russia when she was 11 years old.

She has won national awards for piano and French, has done research in chemical engineering and nanotechnology at the University of Washington, neuroscience at Northwestern, and biomedical engineering at the University of Chicago, and has competed in ballroom dancing, salsa and flamenco.

At Oxford, Anna will do a doctorate in mathematical biology.

Mallory A. Dwinal, of Gig Harbor, Washington, is a senior at Northwestern with majors in Spanish, economics, and international studies.

She also studied in Qinghua University in Beijing.

In 2006, Mallory founded a program that coordinates and funds English as a second language education in Chicago elementary schools.

Since 2006, she has been leader of a daily meals program at a homeless shelter. She plans to do the M.Phil. in comparative and international education at Oxford.  

Rhodes Scholarships provide all expenses for two or three years of study at the University of Oxford in England, and may allow funding for four years. The total value of the scholarship averages approximately $50,000 per year.

They were created in 1902 by the will of Cecil Rhodes, British philanthropist and African colonial pioneer.

The first class of American Rhodes Scholars entered Oxford in 1904; those elected now will enter Oxford in October 2009.

Women have only been eligible to apply for the scholarship since 1976; so far, 408 American women have won the coveted scholarship.