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Sunday, November 22, 2009 |
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Elizabeth Blair “Libby” Longino has interned with a microcredit program in Vietnam, helped start a group combating child prostitution in Cambodia and completed an Outward Bound Wilderness Expedition in the Pacific Northwest. Henry Lawlor Spelman has worked in refugee camps in Tanzania, tutored underprivileged high school students and trekked more than 125 miles in Washington’s Olympic Mountains.
These and other highlights of their undergraduate years at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have helped win both seniors Rhodes Scholarships to Oxford University in England. They were among 32 American college students selected Saturday (Nov. 21) for the prestigious honor, perhaps the world’s most competitive in higher education. |
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