Are YOU Tulane’s Next Rhodes Scholar?

Rhodes Scholarship Information Session

Wednesday, April 20^th, at 9:00 AM CDT

Every year, the Rhodes Trust brings together 100 new Rhodes Scholars from around the world. The scholarship fully funds postgraduate study at the University of Oxford, and is a life-changing opportunity for exceptional young people who will change the world for the better.

Join NTC’s Office of Fellowship Advising (OFA) for a virtual visit from Beth Pearson, Assistant American Secretary for the Rhodes Trust, with the participation of Noam Schreiber, Chicago-based reporter for The New York Times, former Rhodes Scholar, and Tulane graduate (class of 1998) at 9AM CDT on Wednesday, April 20^th. During this session, you will learn what it’s like to be a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford and what makes a competitive applicant for this program.

For more information on the Rhodes and other fellowship opportunities, visit the OFA and Rhodes websites.

Register here to attend this online event.

More on the presenters:

• Beth Pearson is Legislative Director in the office of Senator Elizabeth Warren. From 2016-2018, she was Health and Economic Policy Advisor for Senator Warren, and previously served as an American Sociological Association/AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow in Senator Warren's office. She holds a PhD in sociology from the University of California-Berkeley, where her research focused on state-level fiscal policy, federalism, and social policy. Beth holds a B.A. in Political Philosophy from Whitman College and an MPhil in Development Studies from Oxford University, where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar. From 2007 to 2009, she worked on state fiscal policy as a research associate at the Iowa Policy Project. Beth is one of two Assistant American Secretaries for the Rhodes Trust and has over a decade of experience as a Rhodes selector.

• Noam Scheiber is a Chicago-based reporter for The New York Times who covers workers and the workplace. Before coming to the New York Times, he spent nearly 15 years at The New Republic magazine, where he covered economic policy and three presidential campaigns. His book, “The Escape Artists,” is a narrative of the Obama administration’s efforts to save the economy from the Great Recession. He holds a master’s degree in economics from the University of Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and undergraduate degrees in math and economics from Tulane University. Noam has six years of prior experience as a Rhodes selector. He is Tulane University’s most recent Rhodes Scholar.