Release date: 8-Mar-05

Emory Names 2005 Bobby Jones Scholars

Four Emory University seniors, Ansley Dillehay, Koshlan Mayer-Blackwell, Cindy Soo and Nathan Woodling, have been chosen to receive the Robert T. Jones Jr. Memorial Scholarship Fund Award for a year of study at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. St. Andrews, founded in 1411, is Emory's sister institution.

Widely known as the Bobby Jones Scholarship, the award was established in 1976 and recognizes individuals who will be excellent representatives of Emory at St. Andrews. Qualities required to fulfill this ambassadorship include intellectual excellence, a record of significant leadership, and academic interests that can be pursued through the offerings at St. Andrews. The scholars receive full tuition and a travel stipend for their year of study.

Dillehay is a mathematics and sociology major from Lawrenceville, Ga., who also is working toward a master of science in public health biostatistics at Emory's Rollins School of Public Health. She served as a Kenneth Cole Fellow in Community Building and Social Change last year, an intensive year-long program at Emory. Dillehay plans to study health care resource management while at St. Andrews.

Mayer-Blackwell is a political science and economics major from Salt Lake City who is part of the Emory Scholars Program as the recipient of a Robert Woodruff Scholarship, the most prestigious undergraduate merit award. He is a founding member and former editor of the Emory Political Review and is president of Emory's Student Environmental Action Coalition and vice president of the Emory chapter of the ACLU. He plans to study sustainable development and environmental studies at St. Andrews.

Soo is a political science, economics and mathematics major from Lilburn, Ga., who is part of the Emory Scholars Program of merit-scholarship recipients. A Phi Beta Kappa scholar, she is president of Emory's Student Alumni Association and a member of the Honor Council. She also has served as a calculus tutor, was a violinist in the Emory Symphony Orchestra for three years, and is a member of the Emory cheerleading squad. Soo plans to study international political thought while at St. Andrews.

Woodling is from Laurel, Md., and is earning dual degrees in biology and neuroscience and behavioral biology. He is part of the Emory Scholars Program as the recipient of a Flora Glenn Candler Scholarship for academics and the performing arts. A Phi Beta Kappa scholar, he is former co-president of Emory Pride, and is active in Theater Emory and Starving Artists Productions, a student acting troupe. While at St. Andrews, he plans to do research in neuroendocrinology and participate in student theater.

Recipients are selected by a committee of faculty, administrators and trustees of the Robert T. Jones Committee as well as former Jones scholars. The late Bobby Jones, an internationally renowned golfer, was an Emory University School of Law alumnus remembered by those who knew him as an extraordinary man of rare loyalty, compassion and integrity.

Emory University is known for its demanding academics, outstanding undergraduate college of arts and sciences, highly ranked professional schools and state-of-the-art research facilities. For nearly two decades Emory has been named one of the country's top 25 national universities by U.S. News & World Report. In addition to its nine schools, the university encompasses The Carter Center, Yerkes National Primate Research Center and Emory Healthcare, the state's largest and most comprehensive health care system.

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