"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, 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. The students will attend the University of Oxford as part of the Rhodes scholar program, which awards more than 100 scholarships worldwide each year for students to pursue two to three years of graduate studies."
Thirty-two Americans were named 2026 Rhodes scholars, including five from U.S. military academies and three each from Yale, Harvard and MIT. The cohort includes students working on housing, health outcomes, sustainability and prison reentry programs. Alice L. Hall of Philadelphia is a varsity basketball player at MIT and student body president who collaborated with a women's collective in Ghana and plans to study engineering. Sydney E. Barta of Arlington is a Paralympian and Stanford bioengineering student who sings in an acapella group and plans to study musculoskeletal sciences. Anirvin Puttur of Gilbert is a U.S. Air Force Academy senior, instructor pilot and aeronautical engineering and applied mathematics student who is proficient in four languages. Rhodes scholars will attend the University of Oxford for two to three years of graduate study. The scholarship was established in 1903, is named for Cecil John Rhodes, and has more than 8,000 alumni across government, education, the arts and social justice.
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