Nina Vasan

The annual "Glamour" WOTY awards took place in New York this past week. In addition to known celebrities and heroes like Goldie Hawn, Christiane Amanpour and Mukhtaran Mai, Conde-Nast's Glamour Magazine is celebrating ten other young women the world should know about and watch for in the coming years.

Their names are Kelli Ann Wolf (21, from Missouri State University), Nina Vasan (21, from Harvard), Francesca Tenconi (21, Duke), Maria Weybrecht (22, Cleveland State), Ghofrane Benghanem (10, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Lyric Chen (21, Univ. of Michigan), Angela Groh (21, Iowa State), Star Wallin (20, Vanderbilt), Kay Lauren Miller (21, Georgetown) and Sarah Thompson (21, Spelman College).

Glamour's Top Ten College Women of The Year

Kelli Ann Wolf, the founder of Public Affairs Week at her school, helped pass a statewide bill.

Nina Vasan founded American Cancer Society for Teens. This glamorous beauty's dream is to be appointed the U.S. Surgeon General.

Francesca Tenconi started the Children's Skin Disease Foundation (CSDF) and wants to become an advocate for sick children.

Maria Weybrecht, who was diagnosed with thyroid cancer at the age of 19, founded Kids in Flight, an annual event that takes sick children on plane rides.

Ghofrane Benghanem, the president of the Muslim Women's Association at her school, dreams of curing Alzheimers Disease.

Lyric Chen, who grew up in Wisconsin, intends to one day run for the U.S. Senate. She currently speaks four languages and is a Truman scholar.

Angela Groh has a dream of becoming Iowa's first female governor.

Until this year, one of Star Wallin's "claims to fame" was that she was the sister of Ashley Amber Wallin, Glamour's 2003 Top 10 College Women winner. This year, Star is a star because of her commitment to endangered species and student recycling programs. The young woman, who believes that "young people will shape the way we treat the earth in the future," is the founder of an environmental group at Vanderbilt.

Kay Lauren Miller, who grew up with a learning disability, is passionate about helping kids learn how to read. She is so passionate that she wants to help eradicate illiteracy. In the eighth grade, she founded ROAR, which stands for Reading Offers Amazing Awards. Kay and others committed to ROAR have collected more than 150,000 books and distributed them to children at local homeless shelters, domestic violence refuges and homes for kids with HIV and AIDS, as well as to children in countries including India, Kenya and Azerbaijan.

Sarah Thompson wants to start a grassroots organization. Her English professor wants Donna Harper wants her to run for president one day.

These ten women have won Glamour's forty-eight annual Top 10 College Women Competition.

If you are a woman about to take the world by storm and are a junior in college in the United States or Canada, consider downloading Glamour's application for their next annual competition.

Their annual competition recognizes leadership on campus, involvement in the community, excellence in their field of study, as well as their unique, inspiring goals.

Each winner receives a cash prize, a trip to New York, opportunities to meet with top professionals in a variety of fields, national recognition in the magazine and a gift basket from L'Oreal Paris, who is exclusively sponsoring the program with Glamour for the sixth year in a row.

Glamour's deadline to apply is February 10th, 2006.

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Glamour December 2005 Cover

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