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The American Rhodes Scholar is published by the Association of American Rhodes Scholars. Inquiries and changesof address should be sent to the editor, Todd Breyfogle, Director, University Honors Program, University ofDenver, Mary Reed Bldg. 17, 2199 South University Blvd., Denver, CO 80208. ©AARS 2001. All rights reserved.

Volume VII, Number 1 April 2001

The American Rhodes Scholar

District IMR. LUKE A. BRONIN

Connecticut—Yale University

MR. MILES J. SWEETMaine—Wheaton College (MA)

MR. BRIAN MULLINMassachusetts—Yale University

MS. LIPIKA GOYALNew Jersey—University of Pennsylvania

District IIMR. CARL STRAUCHLER

New York—Yeshiva University

MR. ZACHARY J. BATTLESPennsylvania—Pennsylvania State University

MR. SETH A. BODNARPennsylvania—United States Military Academy

MR. BRANDON MILLERPennsylvania—Princeton University

District IIIMR. THOMAS M. PELLATHY

Delaware—University of Delaware

MR. WESTLEY W. O. MOOREMaryland/District of Columbia—Johns HopkinsUniversity (also Valley Forge Military College)

MR. MATTHEW BAUGHNorth Carolina—Duke University

MR. NIUNIU JINorth Carolina—Case Western Reserve University

District IVMR. BRADLEY D. TUGGLE

Alabama—University of Alabama

MR. BEN M. GOODWINArkansas—Hendrix College

MS. ANNA R. TERRYArkansas—University of Arkansas

MR. THOMAS S. MCCALEB, JR.Florida—United States Air Force Academy

District VMS. SARAH S. JOHNSON

Kentucky—Washington University

MR. RUDYARD W. SADLEIRIllinois—University of Illinois at Chicago

MR. RAJU RAVALIndiana—Indiana University

MR. BRADLEY J. HENDERSONOhio—University of Chicago

District VIMS. MOLLY ZAHN

Minnesota—University of Minnesota

MR. IAN KLAUSMissouri—Washington University

MR. PHILLIP N. ASSMUSSouth Dakota—Luther College

MR. NICHOLAS O’BRIEN MELINWisconsin—United States Military Academy

District VIIMR. PHILIP MANN

Colorado—Arizona State University

MR. JOSHUA D. NASSIRIIdaho—United States Naval Academy

MR. JOSHUA A. CHAFETZTexas—Yale University

MS. SARA C. GALVANTexas—University of Texas

District VIIIMR. CARL H. TAPE

Alaska—Carleton College

MR. JORDAN A. KRALLCalifornia—Amherst College

MS. COURTNEY C. J. VOELKEROregon—Brown University (also Dartmouth

Medical School)

MS. EMMA BRUNSKILLWashington—University of Washington

American Rhodes Scholars-Elect for 2001(Subject to ratification by the Rhodes Trustees after acceptance by one of the colleges of Oxford University)

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2001 American Rhodes Scholars-Elect

District VI

Phillip Nathan Assmus (South Dakota)Luther College: B.A., Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, 2001

Proposed Oxford Subject: Physics

Present AddressSPO #200Luther College700 College DriveDecorah, IA 52101(319) [email protected]

Permanent Address515 North Chicago AvenueMadison, SD 57042(605) 256-4262

Career AspirationsUniversity teaching and scientific research

A Barry Goldwater Scholar, Phil Assmus also won the Carl W. StromPrize in Mathematics, awarded to the most outstanding mathematics ma-jor at Luther College. His complementary interests in physics led him tospend a summer as a physics honors student at the Fermilab NationalAccelerator, where his research dealt with data acquisition procedures forthe CDF detector. Phil is a member of both the Sigma Pi Sigma physicshonor society and the Pi Mu Epsilon mathematics honor society, and heis an active member of Alpha Phi Omega, a national service fraternity.Phil is an Eagle Scout who loves the outdoors and enjoys hiking, back-packing, canoeing, camping, and kayaking—all of which he hopes to doextensively while at Oxford.

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District II

Zachary J. Battles (Pennsylvania)Pennsylvania State University: B.S., Mathematics; B.S./M.S.,

Computer Science, 2001

Proposed Oxford Subject: Numerical Analysis

Present Address0171 Atherton Hall

University Park, PA 16802(814) 862-6890

[email protected]

Permanent Address614 Locust Lane

State College, PA 16801(814) 238-1621

Career AspirationsTeaching and/or academic research,

continued work with the disabled

Zachary Battles is the winner of many scholarships and awards in scienceand engineering and combined his work in mathematics and computerscience with a minor in French. He is one of eighteen children in his family—fifteen, including Zachary, are adopted—and has been extremelyactive in the United States and internationally in programs for peoplewith disabilities. He has traveled to Costa Rica as a Mobility Internationaldelegate researching conditions for disabled Costa Ricans. Twice he hastraveled to the Ukraine to teach English. He is blind and has designedteaching tools for the blind. Zachary has just returned from a two-weekcourse in theater in London—“I’ve grown up loving the theater”—andlooks forward to expanding his theatrical horizons further while atOxford.



District III

David Matthew Baugh (North Carolina)Duke University: B.A., International Development, 2001

Proposed Oxford Subject: Development Studies

Present AddressBox 94049Durham, NC 27708(919) [email protected]

Permanent Address10028 Old Warren RoadRaleigh, NC 27615(919) 847-2700

Career AspirationsForeign policy; international law and humanitarian work

Matthew Baugh was awarded a Truman Scholarship in 2000 and was anAngier B. Duke Scholar at Duke University. With the support of the JohnHope Franklin International Research Grant, he worked with a localpeasants’ organization in Haiti to produce eighteen public health radioprograms now being broadcast throughout the country, work which wasrecently featured on National Public Radio’s “Weekend Edition” andwhich earned him a special commendation from Secretary of StateMadeleine Albright and Senator John Edwards. He also served as U.S.delegate to the International Summit of Youth Leaders in Taiwan. He isco-president of the Duke chapter of the Red Cross and won the AmericanRed Cross National Exceptional Service Award. As chairman of Duke’shonor council and judicial board, he led the first full review of Duke’shonor system. Matthew speaks Mandarin Chinese and Haitian Creoleand is a “musical theater nut, prone to random outbursts of song andmelodrama!” Born and raised in Arkansas, he loves “good ole countrycooking and can’t wait to share some southern delights—especially myfavorite, fried okra—with new British acquaintances.”



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District II

Seth Andrew Bodnar (Pennsylvania)United States Military Academy: B.S., Economics, 2001


Present AddressP.O. Box 21

West Point, NY 10997(845) 515-1703

[email protected]

Permanent Address133 Hemlock DriveFranklin, PA 16323

(814) 432-5381

Career AspirationsArmy officer; public service

Ranked first of the 974 cadets in the West Point class of 2001, SethBodnar was awarded a Truman Scholarship in 2000. As CadetCommander for Cadet Field Training 2000, he was responsible for thesummer training of the approximately 1200 members of the class of 2003.He also served as Cadet Regimental Commander for the 2nd Regiment(approximately 1000 cadets). Seth participated in a military exchangewhich took him to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. An aficionado ofAmerica’s pastime, Seth was a two-year letterman on the varsity baseballteam until a career-ending thumb injury turned him from player to coachof the junior varsity baseball team.



District I

Luke Aaron Bronin (Connecticut)Yale University: B.A., History and Philosophy, 2001

Proposed Oxford Subject: Philosophy

Present AddressP.O. Box 205488Yale UniversityNew Haven, CT 06511(203) [email protected]

Permanent Address11 Windabout DriveGreenwich, CT 06831(203) 622-8268

Career AspirationsPublic service, public policy, law

Luke Bronin was the recipient of the Hart Lyman Prize, awarded annuallyto one Yale junior for academic excellence and contributions to the uni-versity community. His deep love of folk and country music was manifestin the New Haven Folk Festival, a non-profit cultural event celebratingfolk music and arts, of which Luke was co-founder and director.Undergraduate president of the Yale Phi Beta Kappa chapter, Luke wasalso the recipient of the Bristed Scholarship Prize for Ancient GreekTranslation. Luke has a “special interest in and commitment to the re-form of America’s current approach to drug policy and corrections” andhas spent much of his time teaching and tutoring in the New Haven cor-rectional center.



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District VIII

Emma Patricia Brunskill (Washington)University of Washington: B.S., Computer Engineering and

Physics, 2000

Proposed Oxford Subject: Neuroscience

Present Address143 Albany St., Apt. 15B

Cambridge, MA 02139(617) 253-5261

[email protected]

Permanent Address21412 96th Avenue West

Edmonds, WA 98020(425) 776-4143

Career AspirationsResearch and teaching in an academic or

industrial setting

Emma Brunskill is an MIT Presidential Scholar and a graduate student incomputer science at MIT. As an undergraduate at the University ofWashington, she was named a Goldwater Scholar (1997), a Mary GatesScholar (1999), and an Anderson Scholar. Emma was also a runner-upfor the Computing Research Association award for outstanding under-graduate female in 2000. Her research experience includes summer workat CERN (European Center for Particle Physics) in 1999. That same sum-mer she visited Paris for the first time “adored it so much that thefollowing summer I choose to take a French language course at theSorbonne. There I spent a lot of time wandering the streets of Paris andhaving long conversations in small cafés.” Emma served as the Universityof Washington coordinator for Amnesty International. An avid rower atthe University of Washington and at MIT, Emma is looking forward tojoining a boat again in Oxford. In her spare moments, she enjoys “read-ing fiction, dancing, and making sushi.” She intends to return to MIT tocomplete her Ph.D. after her time at Oxford.



District VII

Joshua Aaron Chafetz (Texas)Yale University: B.A., Ethics, Politics and Economics; B.A.,

Philosophy, 2001

Proposed Oxford Subject: Politics

Present AddressP.O. Box 200455New Haven, CT 06520-0455(203) [email protected]

Permanent Address1924 Swift Boulevard Houston, TX 77030(713) 524-3518

Career AspirationsLegal academia, American constitutional law

Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Political Quarterly, Josh Chafetz has been a re-search assistant to Akhil Reed Amar, the Southmayd Professor of Law atthe Yale Law School. Josh has written as an editorial columnist on na-tional political and legal issues for the Yale Daily News and participated inMaghreb-USA, a group devoted to bringing North African political andcultural leaders to speak at Yale and in the surrounding community. Hissenior thesis in philosophy is on Hans-Georg Gadamer’s hermeneutictheory; his thesis in ethics, politics, and economics takes up issues ofAmerican constitutional federalism. Josh is interested in continuing thesephilosophical-institutional-legal interests at Oxford where he plans towrite on some aspect of the English common law tradition. His hobbiesinclude “jogging, basketball, debating politics and philosophy withfriends until 3:00 am” and, correspondingly, “sleep deprivation.”



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District VII

Sara Cecilia Galvan (Texas)University of Texas: B.Arch., Architecture; B.A., Plan II, 2001

Proposed Oxford Subject: World Archaeology

Present Address505 West 7th #214Austin, TX 78701

(512) [email protected]

Permanent Address5510 Community

Houston, TX 77005(713) 668-4143

Career AspirationsPublic service, historic preservation

A Truman Scholar and Rotary Ambassador to Russia, Sara Galvan has aninterest in historic preservation and city planning that has taken hereverywhere from Bosnia to South Korea. She has won numerous fellow-ships for research into urban issues and is completing a thesis on regionalborder development in the colonias in the Lower Rio Grande Valley. Atthe University of Texas, Sara chaired the academic student governanceorganization, edited the Plan II feature magazine, chaired a lectureshipthat most recently welcomed Colin Powell to campus, and served on var-ious student-faculty committees including one that chose a new dean forthe School of Architecture. A neighborhood activist and proud residentof downtown Austin, Sara laments the recent failure of a light rail refer-endum in that city and vows “to continue to fight for better Americancities” when she returns from Oxford. Her hobbies include languagestudy (she speaks Spanish, Russian, and Arabic), classical piano, and“playing with Legos.”



District IV

Ben Matthew Goodwin (Arkansas)Hendrix College: B.A., Mathematics, 2001

Proposed Oxford Subject: Mathematics

Present AddressHendrix College Box 32911600 Washington AvenueConway, AR 72032(501) [email protected]

Permanent Address6 Kings ParkConway, AR 72032(501) 329-9020

Career AspirationsUndecided

Ben Goodwin is a Goldwater Scholar and the recipient of the PhilipParker Award for undergraduate research and the McHenry-LaneFreshman Mathematics Award. He participated in a summer researchprogram sponsored by the National Science Foundation at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. He has presented mathematics papersat national meetings, is the president of the Hendrix chapter of Pi MuEpsilon, the national mathematics honor society. Ben served as a presi-dential assistant for the student senate and organized the Hendrix CollegeBowl Team. An environmental activist, Ben is involved with Habitat forHumanity and traveled to Pignon, Haiti as part of a summer service pro-ject. Ben plays the guitar and does “nothing without my friends” who aretoo numerous to name here.



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District I

Lipika Goyal (New Jersey)University of Pennsylvania: B.A., Biological Basis of Beahvior, 2001


Present AddressBox #230, 3910 Irving Street,

Philadelphia, PA 19104(215) 417-8085

[email protected]

Permanent Address1111 Cooper Road

Scotch Plains, NJ 07076(908) 417-8085

Career AspirationsPhysician, international health,

human rights

A Benjamin Franklin Scholar and University Scholar, Lipika Goyal wasnamed to the 2001 USA Today All-USA College Academic Third Team.She was twice awarded University Scholars Program summer grants forresearch on malnutrition (especially obstacles to zinc supplementation)in New Delhi (2000) and malarial parasitemia in Ghana (1999). Lipika isactive as a member of the Golden Key, Mortar Board, and Pi Gamma Muhonor societies, is a writing advisor and a member of the Penn WritingProgram steering committee, and serves as president of the John MorganPre-Health Society (for pre-medical, pre-dental, and pre-veterinary stu-dents). In New Orleans she tutored inner-city elementary students andhelped renovate a halfway house for Vietnam Veterans. She has alsotaught ninth grade inner-city students in Philadelphia about “connec-tions between scandalous Greek literature and modern rap music.” Lipikahas volunteered in the operating room and the emergency room at theHospital of the University of Pennsylvania and is chairperson for theReach-A-Peer HelpLine support and referral hotline for Penn students.As a PennQuest leader she takes freshmen on a four day hiking andcamping pre-orientation program in the Appalachian Mountains. Lipikaenjoys “live performance, creative non-fiction, ethnic food, traveling,running, and anything new.”



District V

Bradley James Henderson (Ohio)University of Chicago: B.A./M.A., Economics, 2001

Proposed Oxford Subject: Economic and Social History

Present Address5636 S. Drexel Ave., Apt. #15Chicago, IL 60637(773) [email protected]

Permanent Address963 Ashire CourtLoveland, OH 45140(513) 683-5551

Career AspirationsWork on international trade issues with an international policy organization

Brad Henderson was a member of the GTE Academic All-AmericanDistrict Team and was Student Marshall at the University of Chicago,where he was also named to the University Athletic Association FirstTeam. Brad is also a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the Maroon KeySociety. Matching his love of economics is his passion for being a specta-tor of live sporting events: “I love to visit any spectator sport. I’ve seenseventeen major league baseball stadiums, countless college football sta-diums, and a number of unbelievable college basketball games.”



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District III

Niuniu Ji (North Carolina)Case Western Reserve University: B.S.E., Systems Engineering, 2001

Proposed Oxford Subject: Optical Networking

Present Address2365 Murray Hill Road

Staley House #620CCleveland, OH 44106


Permanent Address200 Bristol Court

Greenville, NC 27834(208) 693-6996

Career AspirationsTechnology entrepreneur, philanthropy

Niuniu Ji is founder and president of FreeDonation.com, a web servicethat allows anyone to donate to charity for free with the contribution paidfor by corporate sponsors. Since launching in October of 1999,FreeDonation.com has generated more than ten million donations by vis-itors from more than one hundred countries, raising more than $50,000for a number of charities worldwide. FreeDonation.com was recently se-lected by the editors of Yahoo Internet Life as one of the 100 Best Sites for2001 on the web. Niuniu’s passion “is creating new companies and brain-storming ideas.” Current interests focus on “distributive P2P(person-to-person) information marketplaces” and web philanthropy.Niuniu is the recipient of a Case Western Reserve University PresidentialScholarship, a National Merit Scholarship, the Outstanding Sophomoreand Junior Awards of the Case School of Engineering, and the AldenUndergraduate Fellowship in Systems Engineering. He played varsity ten-nis for three years at CWRU and is a member of the Student TurningPoint Society, a leadership honor society that serves as a liaison betweenthe university and its alumni. Niuniu also enjoys weight lifting and play-ing classical piano, and describes himself as a “decent ping-pong andchess player.” While at Oxford, Niuniu looks forward to playing on thegrass tennis courts and brushing up on his serve-and-volley game.



District V

Sarah Stewart Johnson (Kentucky)Washington University: B.A., Mathematics, Environmental

Studies, 2000

Proposed Oxford Subject: Philosophy, Politics, and Economics

Present Address6026A Westminster PlaceSt. Louis, MO 63112(314) [email protected]

Permanent Address1219 Kastle RoadLexington, KY 40502(859) 269-5730

Career AspirationsAstronaut, astrobiologist, planner of space missions

Both a 2000 Truman Scholar and 1999 Goldwater Scholar, Sarah Johnsonhas always dreamed of exploring space. Her NASA research is far-ranging: she has been involved in testing prototype Mars rovers in theMojave Desert, quantifying bioremnant particle transfer in the MarsWind Tunnel at the Ames Research Center (as a member of the 1999NASA Academy), and designing a Discovery Mission at the JetPropulsion Laboratory. Sarah is currently finishing her senior honorsthesis, which models the paleohydrology of a lake at the summit ofMauna Kea as an early Mars analogue. Sarah volunteers with SpecialOlympics and coordinates the Natural Ties Program, which pairsWashington University students with young adults with mental disabili-ties. Her interest in environmental protection led her to spend a semesterstudying in the rainforests of Costa Rica and to participate in negotiationson the Kyoto Protocol as a delegate to the recent United Nations ClimateSummit in The Hague. She will read PPE at Oxford, claiming “space mis-sions are just as much driven by politics and economics as they are byscience.” In her spare time, Sarah enjoys “trail running, photography, at-tempting to speak Spanish, and traveling.”



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District VI

Robert Ian Courtney Klaus (Missouri)Washington University: B.A., History, Literature and History, 2001

Proposed Oxford Subject: Modern History and English

Present Address7320 Forsyth

St. Louis, MO 63105(314) 721-3588

[email protected]

Permanent Address402 Golden Gate Avenue

Belvedere, CA 94920(415) 435-1610

Career AspirationsTo teach, to do interesting work

with interesting people

Ian Klaus founded “Bears and Cubs,” a service organization which bringsWashington University athletes into the community as both tutors andcoaches. In his junior and senior years he served as captain of the Men’sVarsity Soccer team. As a junior, Ian was selected to the GTE AcademicAll-American 3rd Team and was twice selected to both theNSCAA/Adidas All-Midwest soccer team and the NSCAA/Adidas All-Midwest scholar-athlete team. He used a Bemis Fellowship award tostudy World War I soldier-poets at the Imperial War Museum in Londonand was awarded the Julius Nyereres Essay Prize and the James BaldwinEssay Prize. Ian served as one of two undergraduate representatives onWashington University’s Board of Trustees and undertook two intern-ships at the Missouri Historical Society in St. Louis. Before doing hisundergraduate work at Washington University, Ian attended PhillipsAcademy Andover. He is “very much looking forward to playing soccer ina country with such a serious passion for the game and hopes to have theopportunity to represent Oxford as a ‘Blue.’”



District VIII

Jordan Asher Krall (California)Amherst College: B.A., Chemistry, 2001

Proposed Oxford Subject: Chemistry (Organic Synthesis)

Present AddressAC #261, Campus CenterAmherst CollegeAmherst, MA 01002(413) [email protected]

Permanent Address5311 Genesta AvenueEncino, CA 91316(818) 981-3140

Career AspirationsProfessor of Chemistry, teaching and research at the university level

Jordan Krall twice qualified for the United States National ChemistryOlympiad team and earned a silver medal at the International ChemistryOlympiad in 1997. He was named a Goldwater Scholar in 1999. Jordanhas conducted three years of summer research in the California Instituteof Technology chemistry department, working on the design and synthe-sis of DNA-binding small molecules which possess the ability to altergene expression. For his honors thesis in chemistry, Jordan is researchingsmall organic molecules with the ability to inhibit reproduction of HIV.He is the recipient of the Belevetz Chemistry Prize (2000), the DreyfusAward for summer research in chemistry (1998), and the Bassett PhysicsPrize (1998). Jordan was the starting shortstop on Amherst’s varsity base-ball team for all four years of his undergraduate career and intends tocontinue playing baseball while in England.



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District IV

Thomas S. McCaleb, Jr. (Florida)United States Air Force Academy: B.S., Mathematics, 2001

Proposed Oxford Subject: Politics, Philosophy, and Economics


USAF Academy, CO 80841CØ[email protected]

Permanent Address3037 Godfrey Place

Tallahassee, FL 32308(850) 893-0182

Career AspirationsFighter pilot for the Air Force

Tom McCaleb, who stands second in the graduation order at the AirForce Academy, grew up in Tallahassee, Florida. At the Academy, he dis-covered a passion for the “seemingly insane” pastime of skydiving andbecame a member of the parachute demonstration team, “Wings ofBlue.” He has recently branched out in his aviation pursuits, earning hisprivate pilot license. A member of the cadet triathlon team, he puts hisathletic experiences to use in running exercise workouts for cadets whofail the physical fitness tests. In his final semester at the Academy, Tomwill hold the position of Cadet Wing Commander—a job in which he willlead 4000 of his peers. During his “meager free time,” he prefers to “ram-ble through the Colorado high country with my girlfriend and listen tothe whispers of the aspen trees.”



District VII

Philip Ryan Mann (Colorado)Arizona State University: B.Mus., Instrumental Music, 2001

Proposed Oxford Subject: Music (Interpretation and Performance)

Present Address645 N. Country Club Dr., #234Mesa, AZ 85201(602) [email protected]

Permanent Address469 Rainbow RoadDurango, CO 81301(970) 259-0886

Career AspirationsProfessional orchestra/opera conductor ofmajor ensemble, university teaching, proponent of arts education

Philip Mann is the founder and music director of the Desert Camerata, achamber orchestra in Arizona, and earned a certificate in orchestral con-ducting from the Moscow State International Summer School, where hewas the only American student accepted in 1999. He serves as the associ-ate conductor of the San Marcos Symphony and holds the same positionfor the Conservatory Music in the Mountains, where he is also a violinfaculty member. He was named Arizona State University’s outstandingmusic education student and served as president of the ASU chapter ofthe Collegiate Music Educator’s National Conference. His honors thesisexamined the relationship between the orchestral conductor and thesoloist. Philip studies violin with Borivoj Martinic-Jercic, the concert-master of the Phoenix Symphony and is in the process of founding acomposition contest in conjunction with the San Marcos Symphony. Heteaches part time at Dobson High School in the Mesa, Arizona, schooldistrict and is a proponent and advocate for arts education and arts fund-ing. In addition to music, Philip enjoys the outdoors—he is an avidfly-fisherman and hiker.



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District VI

Nicholas O’Brien Melin (Wisconsin)United States Military Academy: B.S., Civil Engineering, 2000

Proposed Oxford Subject: Civil Engineering

Permanent Address8108 N. Whitney Road

Fox Point, WI 53217(414) 351-2416

[email protected]

Career AspirationsCorps of Engineers Officer, professor at

West Point, possibly elected office

Nick Melin is the valedictorian of the Military Academy Class of 2000 andgraduated first in his class of Engineer Officers Basic Course at FortLeonard Wood, receiving an Army Achievement Medal. His numerousawards include the Brigadier General Elvin R. Heiberg Award for appliedscience, the National Society of the Daughters of the AmericanRevolution Award for civil engineering, the Brigadier General Charles H.Schilling Award, also for civil engineering, the Colonel John R. EltingAward for military history, and the Lieutenant Colonel Boyd M. HarrisAward for military leadership. Nick is a graduate of the Airborne Schooland has been Platoon Leader for combat engineers and cadets in basictraining. He recently began Ranger School training at Fort Benning,Georgia, and will soon lead a platoon of forty paratroopers in the 82ndAirborne Division. An Eagle Scout who remains active with the local BoyScouts, Nick also served as a congressional intern at Senator Kohl’sMilwaukee office. While in college, he redesigned foundations for thestructures used to house Apache helicopters in Kosovo and hopes to con-tinue research and design in the Army, especially by developing cheaper,better refugee housing. He is active in the Catholic Church and receivedthe Ad Altare Dei Award for religious service. His hobbies includeweightlifting, reading, chess, and football. At Oxford, Nick looks forwardto “taking up rowing and finally learning how to ballroom dance.” Healso hopes to visit Ireland and research his family heritage.



District II

Brandon David Miller (Pennsylvania)Princeton University: A.B., Comparative Literature, 2001

Proposed Oxford Subject: Oriental Studies (Chinese Studies)

Present AddressUnit 1367, 13 Frist Campus CenterPrinceton, NJ 08544-1113(609) [email protected]

Permanent Address152 Bucks Hill RoadMohrsville, PA 19541(610) 926-2968

Career AspirationsUniversity teaching and research inEast-West comparative philosophy andliterature, university administration and education policy

A United States Presidential Scholar, Brandon Miller is also an avid thes-pian whose roles have included Iago in the Princeton ShakespeareCompany’s production of Othello, George in Theatre-Intime’s Who’sAfraid of Virginia Woolf?, and John in an independent production ofDavid Mamet’s Oleanna. Brandon is cover editor of the Nassau Weekly, acampus humor and news publication. He tutors junior high school stu-dents at the Princeton Public Library, is active as a peer counselor andwith Amnesty International, and is the recipient of the PrincetonUniversity President’s Award for Academic Excellence. His academic in-terests are decidedly cross-disciplinary and have spanned pre-QinChinese philosophy, German Idealism, rhetoric, and literary theory. Inthe summer of 2000 he researched young executive job mobility at theLondon Business School; the previous summer he worked with theGerman Chinese Society for Exchange and Education, translatingEuropean Central Bank documents from German into Chinese. His mu-sical interests are equally diverse, encompassing Brahms, Traffic, JohnnyCash, and the music of former Portuguese colonies. Brandon plays the piano, is a “lapsed oboist,” and has “a killer one-handed backhand on theclub tennis team.” Brandon enjoys traveling—among his favorite experi-ences are “horseback riding in Inner Mongolia, sailing off the North Seacoast of Germany, and lounging in a Budapest mud bath.”



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District III

Westley W. O. Moore (Maryland/D.C.)Johns Hopkins University (also Valley Forge Military College):

B.A., International Relations, 2001

Proposed Oxford Subject: International Relations

Permanent Address9178 Firefly Run

Pasadena, MD 21122(410) 360-6075

[email protected]

Career AspirationsU.S. foreign policy, public service

Wes Moore is the founder and executive director of the STAND Program,which works with Baltimore City youth in the criminal justice system. AFirst Lieutenant in the U.S. Army, he was Regimental Commander atValley Forge Military Academy and College, where he earned hisAssociates degree in 1998. Elected to Phi Beta Kappa at Johns HopkinsUniversity, Wes is a Public Policy-International Affairs Fellow atPrinceton. His research on the effect of music on social change took himto Korea, South Africa, Cuba, and Spain. Wes sings in the Johns HopkinsGospel Choir, acts in theater productions, plays varsity football and basketball, and serves on the Central Maryland Board of Directors for theMarch of Dimes.



District I

Brian Anthony Mullin (Massachusetts)Yale University: B.A., Literature and Theater Studies, 2001

Proposed Oxford Subject: English Studies (Renaissance Literature)

Present AddressP.O. Box 204522New Haven, CT 06520-4522(203) [email protected]

Permanent Address19 Gaskins RoadMilton, MA 02186(617) 696-0109

Career AspirationsTheater arts—writer, director, actor

Elected to Phi Beta Kappa in 2000, Brian Mullin is the archivist of theYale Dramatic Association. He has written four original plays and has di-rected over half a dozen productions at Yale, including Antony andCleopatra and Love’s Labour’s Lost. Additionally, Brian is a member of“The Viola Question,” an improvisational comedy group. Brian has alsobeen active in environmental and community organizations, particularlythe Clean Air Campaign in New York City.



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District VII

Joshua Darius Nassiri (Idaho)United States Naval Academy: B.S., Chemistry, 2001

Proposed Oxford Subject: Philosophy, Psychology, and Physiology


Annapolis, MD 21412(410) 991-7164

MØ[email protected]

Permanent Address3256 Cambridge

Hayden, ID 83835(208) 762-9079

Career AspirationsMilitary physician

Josh Nassiri was named to the U.S. Naval Academy Superintendent’s Listand is ranked first in his class academically. He has also served on an ex-change program on a German frigate. He is president of the Men’s GleeClub, interned at the National Naval Medical Center, and was co-coordinator of Project White Hat, a midshipman program for sick chil-dren at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He has earned the Navy “D”Qualification (sailcraft skipper’s certification) and enjoys sailing and fly-ing, but restricts his participation in the latter to small, single-engine landplanes.



District III

Thomas M. Pellathy (Delaware)University of Delaware: B.A., Mathematics and Philosophy;

M.A., Linguistics/Cognitive Science, 2000Proposed Oxford Subject: Forced Migration and International

Relations

Present Address334 E. Main Street, Apt. A4 Newark, DE 19711(302) 369-4305 [email protected]

Permanent Address610 Shenandoah DriveLatrobe, PA 15650(724) 537-7845

Career AspirationsPublic policy, migration studies, philosophy

Thomas Pellathy attended the University of Delaware as an AlisonScholar for the humanities and a Eugene du Pont DistinguishedMemorial Scholarship recipient. Tom has conducted research atDelaware and MIT exploring the neural processes that map spoken lan-guage onto representations used in linguistic computation, and hasseveral publications in cognitive neuroscience. In 1998, Tom worked foran international organization in Vienna, where he advised policymakerson the emerging refugee crisis in Kosovo. He has volunteered at the LatinAmerican Community Center in inner-city Wilmington, and spent timein the Balkans addressing refugee issues after the NATO campaign. Tomis currently working with Guatemalan immigrants in rural southernDelaware, co-authoring a book on the subject and helping produce a doc-umentary that tells the story of the immigrant families. Tom speaksSpanish and his parents’ native Hungarian, and has traveled extensively.He is especially fond of Paraguay, where his wife Stephanie grew up.Tom’s other interests include “poetry, collecting local artwork, and cook-ing.” He insists that “philosophy is at the core of everything I do.” Aone-time “basketball junkie,” Tom enjoys hiking and plans to walk theWest Highland Way and Camino de Santiago with his wife.



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District V

Raju Raval (Indiana)Indiana University: B.S./B.A., Biochemistry, Biology, Spanish, and

Religious Studies, 2001

Proposed Oxford Subject: Molecular Oncology

Present Address1415 East 3rd Street, Apt. 0031

Bloomington, IN 47401(812) 857-6881

[email protected]

Permanent Address12529 Crabapple PlaceFort Wayne, IN 46814

(219) 672-8775

Career AspirationsCancer research, health policy

Raju Raval is a Truman Scholar and an Indiana University Wells Scholarwith many college research and departmental awards. He is also inter-ested in the public policy aspects that relate to his medical research. Rajuis active in Bloomington community activities, works with abusedwomen and children, and is co-founder of the IU Bloomington chapterof Circle K. He is currently assisting Professor Milton Taylor in research-ing the diagnostics and progression of breast cancer micrometastases. Aportion of his Truman award will enable him to be an intern this summerat the National Cancer Institute in Washington, D.C. While in Englandhe hopes to “take his classmates on an annual summer trip to queueovernight for Centre Court Wimbledon tickets.”



District V

Rudyard Willis Sadleir (Illinois)University of Illinois at Chicago: B.S., Earth and Environmental

Science, 2001

Proposed Oxford Subject: Evolutionary Biology and Paleontology

Present Address1434 W. Flournoy, Apt. 3RChicago, IL 60607(312) [email protected]

Permanent Address502 Grand BoulevardPark Ridge, IL 60068(847) 692-7162

Career AspirationsPaleontologist at a university or museum,research and education

A Goldwater Scholar, Rudyard Sadleir has extensive field work as a two-time member of Dr. Paul Sereno’s paleontology digs in the Sahara.Rudyard was part of Sereno’s four-month expeditions to Niger in 1997and again in 2000, helping discover at least three new species of dinosaursand other fossils which will “rewrite the history of Africa during theCretaceous.” He has also done extensive field-work at DinosaurProvincial Park in Alberta and received a bursary from the Royal TyrrellMuseum for part of that work. Rudyard won a spot in the Smithsonian’sResearch Training Program at the National Museum of Natural Historyin 1998 and began his own research project in 1999—a mathematicalanalysis of the shapes of theropod dinosaur teeth for purposes of taxo-nomic identification—the preliminary results of which he presented tothe Society of Vertebrate Paleontologists’ annual meeting. He has co-authored two papers which have appeared in the journal Science and isdeeply committed to science education for children—“I have found thatdinosaurs are the perfect way to get their attention.” To this end, he hasvolunteered at Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History for five yearsand helps with Project Exploration, a program which brings paleontologyinto city schools. A former North American Speedskating Champion,Rudyard is now an avid rugby player who would “love to try crew while atOxford.”



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District II

Carl Benjamin Strauchler (New York)Yeshiva University: B.A., English Literature, 1999

Proposed Oxford Subject: Philosophy and Theology

Present AddressYeshivat Har Etzion

Alon Shvut 90433Israel

[email protected]

Permanent Address15 Crestwood Drive

West Orange, NJ 07052(973) 325-8057

Career AspirationsRabbi, teacher

Chaim Strauchler is the founder and editor of Mima`amakim: CreativeExpression on Jewish Religious Experience. For the last six and a half years,he has spent more than seven hours daily studying Talmud and other ad-vanced Jewish texts. He has published scholarly articles on the Bible andTalmud in addition to publishing some of his own poetry. A WexnerGraduate Fellow, he is also a regional advisor for the National Conferenceof Synagogue Youth. In this capacity he taught young people and coun-seled them on everything from drugs to prayer. He has also worked as atutor for the Community Literacy Program, helping sixth graders withreading, math, and science, and has been a peer tutor in the YeshivaCollege writing center. Chaim was a Rudin Distinguished Scholar atYeshiva University and a Kukin Fellow who has lectured to the first-yearstudents. He is currently studying for Rabbinic ordination at Rabbi IsaacElchanon Theological Seminary and for an M.A. in Biblical Studies at theBernard Revel Graduate School. This year he is also studying the laws ofSabbath for Israel Rabbinate certification at Yeshivat Har Etzion. In addi-tion to his studies, Chaim enjoys swimming, hiking, and flying kites.



District I

Miles Jacob Sweet (Maine)Wheaton College (MA): B.A., Chemistry, 2001

Proposed Oxford Subject: Chemistry

Present AddressWheaton College, W1682Norton, MA 02766(508) [email protected]

Permanent Address8 Flood AvenueFairfield, ME 04937(207) 453-2258

Career AspirationsPharmaceutical research and development,science and technology policy

Miles Sweet is a proud resident of Maine and a first-generation collegestudent. He has been the recipient of National Science Foundation grantsto conduct research at North Carolina State and the Université Pierre etMarie Curie in Paris. His honors thesis is an international collaborationconcerning the design of hybrid organic-inorganic nano-materials. Activein student government, Miles served as the student representative on thesteering committee for Wheaton’s institutional assessment and re-accreditation. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and is president of theWheaton chapter of the American Chemical Society. He enjoys teachingand tutoring in advanced level chemistry courses and has served as a peermentor for first-year students. His “true passion,” however, is music—hehas played principal percussion and solo timpani in a number of ensem-bles. Miles also enjoys “reading, traveling, and learning new languages. Ilook forward to seeing more of Europe during my tenure at Oxford.”



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District VIII

Carl Harlan Tape (Alaska)Carleton College: B.A., Physics and Geology, 2001

Proposed Oxford Subject: Earth Sciences

Present AddressCarleton College

300 N. College St.Northfield, MN 55057


Permanent AddressP. O. Box 80425

Fairbanks, AK 99708(907) 479-0156

Career AspirationsUniversity professor, teaching and research

Carl Tape’s article “Aquarium, Computer, and Alaska Range Mirages”was published in The Physics Teacher (May 2000). He has presented hisresearch at last year’s Geological Society of America annual meeting andin 1997 won first place in physics at the National Junior Science andHumanities Symposia, an award which included a three week trip to theLondon International Youth Forum. At Carleton he received the NoyesPrize for academic achievement and was named a Duncan Stewart Fellowin his junior year. Active in Mortar Board and Phi Beta Kappa, Carl wason the varsity track team, played varsity soccer, and was named to the All-Conference Soccer team in 1999 and 2000 and to the All-Midwest Soccerteam in 2000. The highlights of his high school education include pro-ducing the video “Sledding With the Pros” and conducting the band in“Stars and Stripes Forever.” His hobbies include sledding, trumpet, refer-eeing and coaching soccer, hiking (especially glaciers), and attending theTucson Gem and Mineral Show.



District IV

Anna Ruth Terry (Arkansas)University of Arkansas: B.A., German and European Studies;

B.S., Biochemistry, 2001Proposed Oxford Subject: Economic and Social History (History

of Medicine)

Present Address685 North Leverett, #7Fayetteville, AR 72701(501) [email protected]

Permanent Address2714 Yorktown CircleFort Smith, AR 72903(501) 484-7847

Career AspirationsPhysician/surgical specialist, research inhumanistic and social aspects of medicine,history of medicine, public health policy

A Sturgis Fellow at the University of Arkansas, Anna Terry was named aGoldwater Scholar in 2000. She also received honorable mention in theselection for the USA Today College Academic Team in 1998 and was theArkansas state winner in the strings category in the Music TeachersNational Association collegiate competition in 1997. Her original re-search presented at state and national science fairs won her a four-yearU.S. Navy Science Fair Scholarship/Naval National Science Award. Annastudied at the University of Munich in 1998-1999, where she was awardedthat year’s Goethe-Preis. Anna began playing the piano when she was fiveand the violin when she was twelve, “so my life has always been sur-rounded by music.” J.S. Bach is her favorite composer. She plays full-timewith the North Arkansas Symphony and part-time with the Fort SmithSymphony and the Arkansas Symphony in Little Rock. She is writing herhonors thesis on the history of medicine in late medieval German cities,“a project I hope to continue and expand at Oxford.” The oldest of fivechildren, Anna is very proud of her family: “We were all home-schooleduntil the sixth grade by our dedicated and resourceful mom, and I stillcredit my educational values and love of learning to this time of my life.”



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District IV

Bradley Davin Tuggle (Alabama)University of Alabama: B.A., English, 2001

Proposed Oxford Subject: English Studies

Present AddressBox 873578

Tuscaloosa, AL 35487(205) 347-4926

[email protected]

Permanent Address1816 Lanier Street, SW

Decatur, AL 35603(256) 350-2402

Career AspirationsProfessor of English literature

A National Merit Scholar and Phi Beta Kappa inductee, Brad Tuggle wasa Presidential Scholar at the University of Alabama, where he had a per-fect 4.0 grade point average. He is an active member of Sigma Tau Delta(English honorary society) and president of the University of Alabamachapter of Phi Sigma Tau, the philosophy honorary society. In addition tobeing an “avid collector and scholar of Bob Dylan’s music,” Brad com-poses and performs his own music. As a senior at Austin High School inDecatur, Alabama, Brad was starting quarterback and permanent teamcaptain. He has traveled to Austria, Germany, Japan, Italy, England,France, Switzerland, Ireland, and Ecuador, and looks forward to continu-ing his travels during his time in Oxford.



District VIII

Courtney Christine Joan Voelker(Oregon)Brown University: Sc.B., Neuroscience, 1999 (also Dartmouth

Medical School)Proposed Oxford Subject: Neuroscience

Present AddressDartmouth Medical SchoolBox 419 Kellogg BuildingHanover, NH 03755(603) [email protected]

Permanent Address1535 SE Clay Street, Apt. 208Portland, OR 97201(503) 228-4942

Career AspirationsNeurological research, clinical and academic medicine

A 1998 Goldwater Scholar, Courtney Voelker’s honors thesis research inneuroscience focused on cortical plasticity. While in high school,Courtney was named a Westinghouse finalist for her independent re-search at the University of Portland, where she developed a method toexact the cancer-fighting chemical Taxol from Pacific yew trees, a methodshe patented in 1997. As a National Institutes of Health Fellow, she pur-sued research on the neurological effects of the herpes simplex virus in1996 and in 2000 conducted NASA and NIH neurological research on aKiesow-Wheeler Foundation Fellowship. She has authored and co-authored two published papers based on her research and several addi-tional papers are pending publication. Her service activities haveincluded participating in the East Timor Action Network and Physiciansfor Human Rights, building and repairing homes and churches in theMexican village of San Luis, and working in a local health clinic, at theChildren’s Hospital of Dartmouth, and at a local hospice center.Courtney enjoys singing and is an avid dancer. She loves the outdoors, es-pecially backpacking, hiking, camping, skiing, swimming, biking, andtennis, as well as survival training and treks in the Canadian Rockies. Sheis most passionate, however, about fly-fishing and looks forward “tograbbing my pole and heading for the Rivers Test and Itchen, England’sclassic chalk streams.” She is presently a teaching assistant and prosectorat Dartmouth Medical School.



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District VI

Molly Zahn (Minnesota)University of Minnesota: B.A., Religious Studies, 2001

Proposed Oxford Subject: Theology (Old Testament)

Present Address2406 31st Avenue SouthMinneapolis, MN 55406


Permanent Address2253 Frosty Pine Court

Stevens Point, WI 54481(715) 344-3883

Career AspirationsAcademic teaching and research in Hebrew

Bible and Ancient Near East

A University of Minnesota Honor Student and University Scholar, MollyZahn is the recipient of the Harold C. Anderson Scholarship in ReligiousStudies and the Selmer Birkelo Scholarship. She was twice awarded theHarold Goldenberg Memorial Award for Outstanding Essay in JudaicStudies, most recently for her paper “Putting Words in God’s Mouth:Exegesis and the Trope of Revelation in the Passover Laws of Jubilees andthe Temple Scroll,” which she also presented at the Midwest RegionalMeeting of the Society of Biblical Literature in April, 2000. She has beenon the College of Liberal Arts Dean’s list for the whole of her undergrad-uate career. A regular volunteer at the local Loaves and Fishes soupkitchens for the past three and a half years, she is active with Habitat forHumanity and other social justice organizations. Molly plays viola, gui-tar, sings for her church choir, leads scripture study groups, and hasrecently become a homilist at her church. Although she left her viola per-formance major early in her college career, she still loves to play andhopes to get involved in orchestral or chamber music at Oxford. An avid runner, Molly enjoys “being outdoors, whether hiking, skiing, orcamping.”

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