2019 Winners and Finalists

Rhodes Scholarship Winner

Arielle Hudson

A Tunica native, Hudson graduated from the Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science in Columbus in 2016. She came to the university after accepting a full scholarship from the UM chapter of the Mississippi Excellence in Teaching Program.

As a Rhodes recipient, Hudson plans to pursue dual master’s degrees in comparative social policy and comparative international education before returning home to the Mississippi Delta to fulfill her five-year teaching requirement as an METP scholarship recipient.

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Fulbright Winners

Ty Gill

Ty, an honors senior linguistics, Spanish and classics major from Saucier taught in the Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship Program in Spain.

Bethany Fits

Bethany, an honors senior English major from Tupelo, received a teaching assistantship to the Czech Republic.

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Goldwater Winner

Addison Roush

Addison is a chemistry major with a biochemistry emphasis and a mathematics minor who studies new techniques for visualizing protein folding events as they occur, which he will apply to better understand prion diseases affecting humans, such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease.

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Gates-Cambridge Winner

Josh Law

At UM, he earned a bachelor’s degree in religious studies with biology and chemistry minors. Josh plans to pursue an MPhil in public health at Cambridge and then an MD/PhD and return to practice somewhere in his home state of Alabama.

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NSEP Boren Winners

Lauren Burns (right)

Burns is taking intensive Modern Standard Arabic and Arabic dialect courses at AALIM, taking courses taught in Arabic at Moulay Ismail University, conducting a semester-long volunteer project and interning with a local organization.

Lauren Newman (left)

Newman will study from June 2019 to May 2020 with the Arab American Language Institute in Morocco. The AALIM program includes intensive Arabic classes as well as direct enrollment into a Moroccan university and participation in an internship.