Colin Tripp ’14 and Martin de Bourmont ’14 will be the first to affix Dickinson’s global footprint to the historic halls of the University of Oxford, where they will spend their full junior year abroad studying at Oxford’s Mansfield College Visiting Student Programme (VSP). Tripp, an English major and creative writing minor from Branford, Conn., and de Bourmont, a political-science major from Montville, N.J., were notified of their acceptance on April 2 after a nearly three-month selection process.

“I was on cloud nine,” describes Tripp. “I called my family. They knew I really wanted it. My mom cried. She’s already talking about visiting.” Click here to view the full story.