Two Spelman College students have been selected as Schwarzman Scholars, one of the world’s most prestigious graduate fellowships. Naomi Aladekoba, C’2023, and Sophia Bax-Wooten, C’2023, were among 151 candidates selected for the 2023-2024 Class of Schwarzman Scholars. The program’s eighth cohort includes participants from 36 countries and 121 universities around the world. Located in Beijing, China, students have the opportunity to study in a one-year, fully-funded master’s degree program in Global Affairs at Schwarzman College on the campus of Tsinghua University. "Applying for prestigious awards, like this one, provides our students with an opportunity to sharpen their ideas about what matters to them,” said Michelle Hite, Ph.D., Spelman College associate professor of English and co-director of the Prestigious International Fellowships program. “We're grateful that the jury agreed with our impressions of their candidacy, and we're very happy that Naomi and Sophia will experience the immediacy of the Spelman sisterhood in one another, in China." Read more: bit.ly/3FMOLGw