UIC senior earns trip to Rhodes Scholar finals
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University of Illinois Chicago senior Sonya Gupta reached the finalist stage for the Rhodes Scholarship, the highly regarded and selective award that covers all expenses for two or three years of study at the University of Oxford in England.
Gupta, an Honors College member majoring in biological sciences and Russian in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, was initially one of 826 applicants to be nominated by their colleges and universities. She then advanced to a select group of 235 applicants from 76 different colleges and universities in the final stage of the Rhodes competition.
She was among 16 candidates from Illinois and Ohio vying for the prominent international academic scholarship during the District 10 finalist interviews held this past November.
One of the campus supporters she highlights is Kim Germain, director of UIC’s Office of External Fellowships (OEF), a unit that provides advising and assistance to undergraduate and professional school students in finding and applying for a range of nationally and internationally competitive fellowships, scholarships and grants.