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A senior cadet at the Air Force Academy is a recipient of one of 32 Rhodes scholarships for 2008.
Cadet Hila Levy of Guaynbo, Puerto Rico, is first in her class at the academy. She is a biology major who has minors in Arabic, French and Spanish. She is fluent in Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Hebrew.
Levy has researched hemorrhagic fever in Venezuela and is the author of several papers relating to language in the military and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
She will attend the University of Oxford in England and plans to obtain two master’s degrees — one in global health science and another in medical anthropology. She then plans to attend medical school.
Levy is the first resident of Puerto Rico to receive a Rhodes scholarship.
