Chemist, artist, activist: Meet Canada's first trans woman Rhodes Scholar

British Columbia's newest Rhodes Scholar says she was convinced she didn't have a chance.

But Julia Levy says she is thrilled to be Canada's first trans queer woman to receive the award and head to the University of Oxford.

Levy, 24, says she knows that 19th-century diamond magnate Cecil Rhodes would probably disapprove. But Levy will head off to pursue a master's degree in computational chemistry next fall and sees it as a huge "opportunity."

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Levy is one of eleven Canadians awarded the Rhodes Scholarship for 2023, joining the first Indigenous woman to receive the scholarship in Canada: Lakoiehwáhtha Patton, a member of the Kanien'kehá:ka First Nations community and fourth-year student at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Arts & Science.

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University of Victoria chemistry Prof. Jeremy Wulff said in a statement that Levy — who invented an app to allow learners to visualize complex molecules on their mobile phones called moleculAR — is destined for greatness.

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