The FOCUS Program congratulates Gabriella (Elle) Diech on being chosen as a 2019 Rhodes Scholar.
Elle Diech was in the FOCUS cluster Ethics, Leadership, and Global Citizenship in 2016. In addition to being chosen as a Rhodes Scholar, Diech was an Angier B. Duke Scholar and designed her own major at Duke -- Biological and Artificial Intelligence. She hopes to pursue degrees in Computer Science and Global Governance at Oxford, and her long-term plans include working in the field of biosecurity and broader global catastrophic risk reduction. To read more about Elle Diech, please see this article in Duke Today: https://today.duke.edu/2019/11/duke-senior-gabriella-deich-named-rhodes-scholar
Previous FOCUS students who were named Rhodes Scholars are:
2018:
Kushal Kadakia (Genetics and Genomics)
2016:
Jay Ruckelshaus (Knowledge in the Service of Society, 2012)
Laura Roberts (Exploring the Mind, 2012)
2009:
Julia Parker Goyer (Athens in the Golden Age, 2003)
2006:
William Hwang (Exploring the Mind, 2002)
Adam Chandler (Origins, 2002)