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Five students at the U.S. military academies and three students from each Yale University, Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology were among 32 American winners named as 2026 Rhodes Scholars on Sunday.
The group includes students focusing on housing, health outcomes, sustainability, and prison re-entry programs. they include:
Alice L. of Philadelphia Hall, a varsity basketball player at MIT, who also serves as student body president. Hall, who has collaborated with a women’s group on sustainability devices in Ghana, plans to study engineering.
Sidney E. Barta of Arlington, VirginiaA paralympics and track team members Stanford UniversityWho studies bioengineering and sings in the Stanford acappella group “Counterpoint”. Barta plans to study musculoskeletal science.
Anirvin Puttur, of Gilbert, Arizona, is a senior at the U.S. Air Force Academy who serves as an instructor pilot and flight commander. Puttur, who is studying aeronautical engineering and applied mathematics, also has a keen interest in linguistics and is fluent in four languages.
The students will attend the University of Oxford as part of the Rhodes Scholars program, which offers more than 100 scholarships around the world each year to students for two to three years of graduate study.
Named after the British imperialist and philanthropist Cecil John Rhodes, the scholarship was established at Oxford in 1903. The program has more than 8,000 alumni, many of whom have gone on to careers in government, education, the arts, and social justice.