Meeting the Challenges of Oxford
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To anyone who has seen it, Oxford University looks as much like a museum as a great university. Its ancient buildings form a skyline of arches, domes, and spires that suggest the era when all-powerful kings ruled England.
But Oxford, founded in the twelfth century, is one of the world’s great universities. Its alumni include Lawrence of Arabia, Lord of the Rings author J.R.R. Tolkien, Oscar Wilde, and Roger Bannister, the first person to run a mile in under four minutes. Another alumnus, Stephen Hawking, has become the most renowned physicist since Einstein for his work with the mysterious space phenomena called Black Holes.
And now Oxford is a regular stop for some of Allegheny’s top students. A new program allocates a minimum of two spots annually for juniors to spend a year there. Last year, Allegheny sent two physics majors—Ibrahim Sulai and Greg Schivley—to study in one of the toughest undergraduate physics programs in the world.
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