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United College student Evelyn Chan Hiu-tung, has been selected as Hong Kong Rhodes Scholar for the year 2005. Evelyn is the tenth CUHK student to have been awarded this prestigious scholarship, making CUHK the local university with the most Rhodes scholars.

Currently a final-year student majoring in Business Administration and minoring in Sociology at CUHK, Evelyn will be leaving for the University of Oxford in the UK to begin M.Phil. studies in social anthropology in October 2005.

Evelyn has demonstrated herself to be a person of high intellectual ability, with a strong academic record and well considered ambitions. She is also an outgoing young woman of integrity and maturity. She enjoys interacting with people and is active in a range of extracurricular activities.

During her studies at the Chinese University, Evelyn was on a yearlong exchange at the University of Chicago in the US, and was an enthusiastic participant of cultural activities. She teamed up with three other classmates of the Faculty of Business Administration at CUHK to take part in the Copenhagen Business School Case Competition. Among 12 teams from world renowned business schools, the CUHK team was the runner-up. A keen debater, Evelyn was awarded the best debater in the local Joint Universities Debating Competition and was selected to represent CUHK at the World Universities Debating Championship in Toronto. She also participated in the China Career Development Award Programme, and took part in a month-long internship in Shanghai.

The Rhodes Scholarships were established after the death of Sir Cecil Rhodes in 1902, and were originally allocated to students from the Commonwealth countries, the US and Germany. Since the inclusion of Hong Kong to the list of countries in 1985, one student from the territory has been honoured as Rhodes Scholar each year.