Wendy Adjeley Adjei, a Ghanaian scholar, has earned the prestigious Best Graduate Paper in Migration Studies Award at the University of Missouri, Columbia, United States of America (USA).

Adjei, a former student of La St Paul's Anglican 2 JHS and Ningo Senior High School, has journeyed from the coastal classrooms of Ghana to the forefront of health advocacy in the USA.

After earning her bachelor's degree from the University of Cape Coast, Adjei was awarded a full scholarship to pursue a master's degree in communication at Purdue University.

Today, she is a rising scholar in the Ph D programme in Health Communication at the University of Missouri-Columbia, one of the top public research universities in the U S, where she once again earned a full scholarship for her academic excellence and promise.