| A recent University of Oregon graduate, whose research may help unravel the dynamics leading to conflict between groups and develop better cooperation in multicultural societies, was named a 2007 Rhodes Scholar.
Andrew Shipley, who was also a Rhodes finalist in 2005, is one of 32 Americans to receive a Rhodes Scholarship this year and the first UO graduate in more than a dozen years.
“I’m really thrilled,” Shipley said. “This is an incredible honor and I could not have done this without the mentors and friends I made at the University of Oregon.”
Shipley received bachelor’s degrees in political science and psychology from the College of Arts and Sciences and, with the Rhodes scholarship, will begin a three-year doctoral program next fall at the University of Oxford in England. He is involved in a research project, funded by a Fulbright fellowship, which studies national identity and ethnic attitudes amongst Maori and European New Zealander youth.
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