HARRISONBURG, VA (Rocktown Now) — A student from Eastern Mennonite University is the school’s first ever recipient of a Rhodes Scholar.

Meredith Lehman is one of 32 students from the United States who has been selected to attend the University of Oxford as part of the prestigious Rhodes scholar program in the coming year.

Scholarship officials made that announcement over the weekend.

Lehman is from Dover, Ohio, and she has done research on cancer drugs funded by the National Science Foundation while majoring in biology and political science.

She is also active in the Virginia Young Democrats and provides legal services to asylum seekers.