Carolyn Gretchen Conner
B.S., West Virginia University, 1996Carolyn Conner, of Valley Fork, West Virginia, was named West Virginia University?s twenty-fifth Rhodes Scholar.
A mechanical engineering major, Conner served as president of Tau Beta Pi, WVU?s engineering honor society, and held three summer internships at NASA?s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. She was a WVU University Honors Scholar and a Foundation Scholar.
Conner studied physics and philosophy at Oxford in order to inspire young people to enter the fields of science and engineering and to help change the stereotypes generally assigned to those fields.