Doss Scholarship Winner Announced

This year’s Ulysses S. Doss scholarship winner is Amelu Ruff, a junior enrolled in History and African-American Studies. The awards committee was particularly impressed by her personal statement which read, in part: 

I believe education is the only way to create systemic and truly lasting change. My dream, and the reality I will create, is to be a professor, to be a black woman with a PhD educating in African American Studies, alongside Women and Gender studies. Additionally, inspired by Professor Shearer, I want to instigate a space where thoughts, norms, and ideals are challenged. It will be a space where Why? is the most prevalent question. The second that question stops being asked, we allow injustice. We begin to settle, because it is comfortable and safe, but comfort does not change or challenge anything. Comfort is stagnant and ineffective. I want to live an effective life. 

The committee also identified two runners up in this year’s competition, junior History and African-American studies student India Hite and junior Sociology and African-American Studies student Callie Cavill. 

Congratulations to all.