After receiving her master of science in genetics and genomics from Iowa State University's Department of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology in summer 2018, Majd Abdulghani learned later that year she had been selected as a Rhodes Scholar. As a result, she became the first student from Saudi Arabia to receive the prestigious scholarship. Abdulghani recently began working on her Ph.D. at Oxford University alongside the 2019 cohort of 100 Rhodes scholars. She will be studying how cancer patients’ genes affect their responses to radiotherapy. While at ISU, Abdulghani worked in GDCB Assistant Professor Geetu Tuteja's lab.

Read more about Abdulghani in the question-and-answer session with Sarah Igram, Graduate College communications specialist, had with Abdulghani about her experience at Oxford.