Two United States Military Academy seniors are among the 32 Americans named Sunday as Rhodes scholars. The scholarships provide all expenses for two or three years of study at the prestigious Oxford University in England.
Cadet Calla Glavin of Birmingham, MI, majors in mathematical sciences, and is Cadet Brigade Headquarters Company Commander, founding editor and editor-in-chief of the Past in Review student newspaper, and president of the society of women engineers. She is also goalkeeper for the Army women’s lacrosse team, and a Big Brother Big Sister mentor. As a student researcher at the disease biophysics group at Harvard University she has developed a mathematical model for a novel method of nanofiber formation for use in wound healing, and at the Los Alamos National Laboratories she worked on algal biofuels. She intends to do the M.Sc. in applied statistics at Oxford.
Cadet Erin A. T. Mauldin of Albuquerque, NM, majors in international history. A Truman Scholar, she ranks first academically in her class and second in academics, military leadership and athletics combined. She serves as regimental commander, competes on the Sandhurst (military skills) team, is co-captain of the Academy crossfit club and is the only non-French woman ever to graduate from the French Commando School. Erin also volunteers to provide support to local students near West Point. As a result of her efforts and environmental interests, the Corps of Cadets implemented a new waste management system. She also helped to develop a biogas digester project in Uganda. Erin plans to do the M.Sc. in nature, science and environmental policy at Oxford.
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