"Five students at U.S. military academies and three each from Yale University, Harvard University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are among the 32 American winners named Sunday as 2026 Rhodes scholars. The group includes students focused on housing, health outcomes, sustainability, and prison reentry programs. They include: Alice L. Hall of Philadelphia, a varsity basketball player at MIT who also serves as student body president. Hall, who has collaborated with a women's collective in Ghana on sustainability tools, plans to study engineering."
"Sydney E. Barta of Arlington, Virginia, a Paralympian and member of the track team at Stanford University, who studies bioengineering and sings in the Stanford acapella group "Counterpoint." Barta plans to study musculoskeletal sciences. 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 deep interest in linguistics and is proficient in four languages."
Thirty-two American students were selected as 2026 Rhodes Scholars and will attend the University of Oxford for two to three years of graduate study. The cohort includes five students from U.S. military academies and three each from Yale, Harvard, and MIT. Areas of focus among winners include housing, health outcomes, sustainability, and prison reentry programs. Notable recipients include Alice L. Hall, an MIT varsity basketball player and student body president who plans to study engineering; Sydney E. Barta, a Stanford Paralympian studying bioengineering who plans musculoskeletal sciences; and Anirvin Puttur, a U.S. Air Force Academy senior studying aeronautical engineering and applied mathematics. The Rhodes Scholarship was established at Oxford in 1903 and has more than 8,000 alumni.
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