The following information was provided by Leon County Schools:

Ms. Ugwechi Amadi, Chiles High Class of 2006, was named a Rhodes Scholar on Saturday by Elliot Gerson, American Secretary of the Rhodes Trust.

Ugwechi W. Amadi, Camden, is a senior at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, majoring in brain and cognitive science, with a minor in literature. She has done research on post-traumatic stress disorder, and atherosclerotic restenosis at MIT, and on brain atrophy and alzheimers at the Massachusetts General Hospital. She is also active in mentoring middle school girls. Ugwechi plans to do the M.Sc. in psychological research at Oxford.

Below you will see the press release from the Rhodes Trust.

For more information please contact Chiles Principal Alan Cox at 545-8827.

We do not have a picture available at this time.