Muslim woman at Stanford wins Rhodes Scholarship
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Since 1905, Stanford has been home to 86 Rhodes Scholars, including two recent additions as of Saturday, Oct. 19. Stanford seniors Tanya Ali Haj-Hassan and Elizabeth Mayne will be attending Oxford University next fall on the world’s oldest international fellowship created by British philanthropist Cecil Rhodes in 1902.
Twenty-year-old Haj-Hassan of Amman, Jordan, is majoring in human biology. While at Stanford, her campus involvement has included co-founding the Coalition for Justice in the Middle East, serving as vice president of the Muslim Student Awareness Network, volunteering as a chaplain at Stanford Hospital and researching neonatal mortality in Jordan with an Undergraduate Research Opportunities major grant. Haj-Hassan also initiated and ran a summer camp for underprivileged children in Jordan through a Haas Center for Public Service Fellowship. ALso, as one of the national directors of the Aids Treatment Access Initiative, she coordinated a walkathon in Chicago.
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Pediatrics Prof. Susan Hintz was Haj-Hassan’s first reader for her Human Biology Honors project about neonatal mortality rates in Jordan.
“As soon as I met her, I was utterly and completely impressed by Tanya — she was incredibly enthusiastic, thoughtful, dedicated and one of the most intelligent and organized students I had ever met,” Hintz said. “She planned and completed the data collection in five hospitals in Amman in only a few months and is now deep into her data analysis. She is truly focused, and has done an amazing and comprehensive job of looking at a very complex yet crucially important area of research.”
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http://daily.stanford.edu/tempo?page=content&id=18716&repository=0001_article
Since 1905, Stanford has been home to 86 Rhodes Scholars, including two recent additions as of Saturday, Oct. 19. Stanford seniors Tanya Ali Haj-Hassan and Elizabeth Mayne will be attending Oxford University next fall on the world’s oldest international fellowship created by British philanthropist Cecil Rhodes in 1902.
Twenty-year-old Haj-Hassan of Amman, Jordan, is majoring in human biology. While at Stanford, her campus involvement has included co-founding the Coalition for Justice in the Middle East, serving as vice president of the Muslim Student Awareness Network, volunteering as a chaplain at Stanford Hospital and researching neonatal mortality in Jordan with an Undergraduate Research Opportunities major grant. Haj-Hassan also initiated and ran a summer camp for underprivileged children in Jordan through a Haas Center for Public Service Fellowship. ALso, as one of the national directors of the Aids Treatment Access Initiative, she coordinated a walkathon in Chicago.
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Pediatrics Prof. Susan Hintz was Haj-Hassan’s first reader for her Human Biology Honors project about neonatal mortality rates in Jordan.
“As soon as I met her, I was utterly and completely impressed by Tanya — she was incredibly enthusiastic, thoughtful, dedicated and one of the most intelligent and organized students I had ever met,” Hintz said. “She planned and completed the data collection in five hospitals in Amman in only a few months and is now deep into her data analysis. She is truly focused, and has done an amazing and comprehensive job of looking at a very complex yet crucially important area of research.”
Read the whole article at:
http://daily.stanford.edu/tempo?page=content&id=18716&repository=0001_article
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