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Colorado Springs native and Boettcher Scholar Serene Singh is graduating with bachelor’s degrees in political science and journalism.

Next fall, she will commence graduate studies as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, where she will pursue master’s degrees in criminology and criminal justice and evidence-based social intervention and policy evaluation. Singh is the first woman in CU �Ǹ�Թ� history to receive a Rhodes Scholarship and the first Buff to receive it since 1993. She aspires to serve as a U.S. Supreme Court justice.

At CU �Ǹ�Թ�, she received the Truman Scholarship�����Ի� Fulbright award. Among many other activities, she served as chief justice for CU Student Government; was a member of the Presidents Leadership Class; founded the Colorado Bhangra Team and the National Sikh Youth Program; and was president of the Sikh Student Association and the Political Science Honor Society.

Singh also worked with Michelle Obama’s Global Girls Alliance and founded The Serenity Project, a nonprofit that works to uplift marginalized and at-risk women to expand society’s notions of female power and beauty.

“I’m going to miss this school so much,” Singh said of her time at CU �Ǹ�Թ�. “I know I’m going to miss home. It’s just inevitable. I’m excited to be challenged, and to be uncomfortable, and to be scared a little bit,” she said. “I’m also really excited to see how I can help the journey of other Buffs.”