Thirty-two named 2010 Rhodes Scholars

WASHINGTON, Nov. 22 (UPI) -- Thirty-two students were named Sunday to represent the United States as Rhodes Scholars in 2010, including a senior from Truman State University in Missouri.

Senior Andrew McCall is the first student from the Kirksville, Mo., college to make the Rhodes list, the Rhodes Trust said in a news release.

The scholarships pay all expenses for several years of study at the University of Oxford, England.

The scholarships are "the oldest and best known award for international study, and arguably the most famous academic award available to American college graduates," said Elliott Gerson, the U.S. secretary of the Rhodes Trust.

The awards were created in 1902 under the will of Cecil Rhodes, a British philanthropist and African colonial pioneer.

The first class of U.S. Rhodes Scholars entered Oxford in 1904. Those announced Saturday are to enter Oxford in October 2010.