Two Northwestern Women Receive Rhodes Scholarship

By Tim State in News on Nov 23, 2008 6:59PM

Two Northwestern students have been named Rhodes Scholars.

Anna Yermakova, of Buffalo Grove, is a senior majoring in biochemistry, piano, and history and philosophy of science and logic. Her family emigrated to the U.S. from Russia when she was 11.

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.

Mallory Dwinal, of Gig Harbor, Wash., is a senior majoring in economics, Spanish, and international studies. She has also studied at 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.

Both will receive scholarships for all expenses to study for two or three years at the University of Oxford in England, which averages about $50,000 a year. Yermakova will purse a doctorate in mathematical biology, and Dwinal plans to do the M.Phil. in comparative and international education. [WBBM]

Photo by Elia Diodati.