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Ohio State celebrates first female Rhodes Scholar
Ohio State celebrates first female Rhodes Scholar
Jessica Hanzlik is university's fifth overall scholarship winner
By: Adam King
Jessica Hanzlik is convinced that fortune, as much as anything, helped her become Ohio State's fifth Rhodes Scholar. But David Tomasko, director of the Honors Collegium, knows otherwise.
The Rhodes Scholarship is one of the most prestigious honors available for college seniors worldwide; only 32 Americans each year are chosen to spend two years in graduate school at Oxford University in England.
Hanzlik, who is majoring in physics and French, is OSU's first female Rhodes Scholar and first overall since Buckeyes tight end Mike Lanese was honored in 1986.
"What I think the committee saw in Jessica was an opportunity to invest in a young woman who will make a change in the world as a physicist," Tomasko said. "She is a female in a male-dominated field with both the capacity and interest to engage gender issues in the academy."
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