{"40619":{"#nid":"40619","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Student Wins Rhodes Scholarship","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFor Jeremy Farris, going to college isn\u0027t about getting good grades and a job. College is about the experience of education and an opportunity to expand the mind. It\u0027s a sentiment that, while not surprising to hear from a college student, might be unexpected from a student with a 3.94 grade-point average who\u0027s just been named one of 32 Rhodes Scholars for 2005.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The purpose of an education isn\u0027t to get you a job,\u0022 said Farris, a senior in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at Ivan Allen College. \u0022The purpose of an education is to change you - to make you sufficiently human.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBefore coming to Tech in 2000, the Bonaire, GA. native won a best of category award at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for his discovery of a new pathogen that can control the invasive plant kudzu. As a result of the award, he was chosen to become an American delegate to the 2000 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Science Forum in Singapore. The trip inspired him to travel to Argentina on a study abroad trip the following summer, where he produced a documentary on the indigenous people of that country. These experiences eventually led to him changing his major from biology to international affairs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESince then he has conducted research on the possibilities for post-Castro democratization in Cuba and traveled to Guatemala to work on reforestation projects and collect footage for a documentary on illegal immigration networks.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The thing about Jeremy that is really amazing is his desire to understand how the world works,\u0022 said Kirk Bowman, associate professor of international affairs and director of Tech\u0027s study abroad programs in Latin America. \u0022He studies international affairs, but he feels the need to know science and philosophy so he can understand how the pieces fit together.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAt first glance, Farris\u0027 holistic approach to learning may seem at odds with Georgia Tech\u0027s career-oriented, disciplinary tradition. But the continuing rise of liberal arts, management and the interdisciplinary focus of Tech\u0027s science and engineering programs prove Farris to be a model of Tech\u0027s future student body.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We need to think of education as something very real and important in itself,\u0022 said Farris. \u0022Georgia Tech can no longer be considered just a math, science and engineering institution.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFarris credits Bowman and two other Ivan Allen College professors, Jon Johnston and Ken Knoespel, with changing his life. \u0022Bowman introduced me to democratization. Knoespel and Johnston really stimulated the life of the mind for me,\u0022 he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUpon entering Tech, Farris became the recipient of the Roe Stamps President\u0027s Scholarship, which, along with the HOPE scholarship, paid for his education at Tech. \u0022Had I not gotten that, I don\u0027t know that I would\u0027ve been able to come to Tech,\u0022 he said. \u0022I\u0027m absolutely thankful for the opportunity.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFarris is the third Georgia Tech student to win a Rhodes Scholarship. The first student was S. Alton Newton, who won the honor in 1951. The second was physics student Will Roper who the Rhodes in 2002.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Rhodes Scholarships pay for two or three years of study at Oxford University, just outside of London. The oldest international fellowships in the world, they were established after the death of British statesman Cecil Rhodes in 1902. This year, 32 American students along with students from 22 other countries are being chosen for their academic achievement, personal integrity and potential for leadership to become Rhodes Scholars.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFarris is scheduled to receive his bachelor\u0027s in international affairs next month. He then plans on spending the summer as Bowman\u0027s teaching assistant in the Argentina study abroad program. He\u0027ll begin a two-year master\u0027s of philosophy program in political theory at Oxford October.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHis career goals are just as broad as his education. Aside from conducting research and teaching public policy, he\u0027d like work with the American Civil Liberties Union and the White House, should newly-elected U.S. Senator Barack Obama run for President.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022His level of expertise is just stunning,\u0022 said Bowman. \u0022As a professor, I spent a lot of time with Jeremy in a lot of different countries. I have learned more from Jeremy than he has ever learned from me.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJeremy Farris has become the second Georgia Tech student in three years to win the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Jeremy Farris is third Tech student to win honor"}],"uid":"27310","created_gmt":"2004-11-21 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:05","author":"David Terraso","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-11-21T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2004-11-21T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"40620":{"id":"40620","type":"image","title":"Jeremy Farris","body":null,"created":"1449174220","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:23:40","changed":"1475894220","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:37:00","alt":"Jeremy Farris","file":{"fid":"100385","name":"tlo49401.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tlo49401.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tlo49401.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1313262,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tlo49401.jpg?itok=bAtA1tGa"}}},"media_ids":["40620"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.psp.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech President\\\u0027s Scholar Program"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.rhodesscholar.org\/","title":"The Rhodes Scholarships"}],"groups":[{"id":"1183","name":"Home"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"3285","name":"Jeremy Farris"},{"id":"3284","name":"Rhodes Scholarship"},{"id":"167285","name":"scholarship"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech Media Relations\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELaura Diamond\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:laura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Elaura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-6016\u003Cbr \/\u003EJason Maderer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:maderer@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emaderer@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-660-2926\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["david.terraso@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}