Kansas State Student Receives Rhodes Scholarship
Jonathan Winkler, a senior in physics, mathematics, and English, is the sixth K-State student to be named a Rhodes Scholar since 1986. Winkler was one of only 32 Rhodes Scholars selected nationwide. The scholarship allows the opportunity for two years of study at Oxford University and is valued between $40,000 and $60,000. Criteria for the award include scholarship, leadership, service and a minimum grade point average of 3.75. In a press release issued Saturday by News Services, Beth Powers, K-State scholarship advisor, said "I'm really delighted for Jonathan. He has distinguished himself in all three of his majors. I am thrilled that he is going to have the opportunity to study at Oxford." Winkler was named a 1995 Goldwater Scholarship winner and received the Clark M. Brink Essay Prize in 1994. He has also been the recipient of several scholarships through the KSU Foundation, including the Lois Holderbaum Scholarship, the Basil and Mary Curnette Scholarship, the Friends of Mathematics Scholarship and the KSU President's Scholarship. An honor roll student throughout his college career, Winkler is also active as a webmaster of the Physics Club and secretary of the College of Arts and Sciences honors council. Other campus involvements include Math Club, K-State Classical Society and the K-State Atomic Physics Group. Winkler served as an intern at Duke University/North Carolina Engineering Research Center for the Emerging Cardiovascular Technologies as well as a summer researcher at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. He is employed at the Collegian as a columnist. "All of us at K- State are thrilled that Jonathan Winkler, a K-State senior from Wichita, Kansas, has won the Rhodes Scholarship," said President Jon Wefald, in a News Services press release. "This is an extraordinary event for Kansas State University because the Rhodes is quite possibly the premier scholarship that an undergraduate can win in the United States today."