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 honour before. The Rhodes Trust on Sunday announced the 32 men and women chosen for post-graduate studies at Oxford University in England. Thamara V. Jean, of Brooklyn, New York, completed her senior thesis at Hunter College of the City University of New York on the Black Lives Matter movement. His research investigates the origin of the ribosome, which could provide insight into the origins of life, the Rhodes Trust said. The first class of American Rhodes Scholars entered Oxford in 1904.

Source: National Post November 19, 2017 13:30 UTC