Five cadets from the U.S. military academies and three each from Yale University, Harvard University and MIT are among 32 American winners named Sunday as 2026 Rhodes Scholars.
Five cadets from the U.S. military academies and three each from Yale University, Harvard University and MIT are among 32 American laureates selected on Sunday, 2026. Rhodes Scientists.
The group includes students focusing on housing, health outcomes, sustainability, and prison reentry programs. They include:
Alice L. Hall of Philadelphia, a college basketball player at MIT who also serves as student body president. Hall collaborated with a women’s group in Ghana on sustainability tools and plans to study engineering.
Sydney E. Barta, from Arlington, Virginia, is a Paralympian and member of the track team at Stanford, who studies bioengineering and sings in the Stanford acapella group Counterpoint. Barta plans to study musculoskeletal sciences.
Anervin Buttur of Gilbert, Arizona, is a senior at the U.S. Air Force Academy and serves as a pilot instructor and flight commander. Butor, who is studying aeronautical engineering and applied mathematics, also has a deep interest in linguistics and is fluent in four languages.
The students will attend the University of Oxford as part of the Rhodes Scholars Programme, which awards more than 100 scholarships worldwide each year for students to pursue postgraduate study for two to three years.
It is named after British imperialism and its benefactor Cecil John RhodesThe scholarship was established at Oxford in 1903. The program has more than 8,000 alumni, many of whom have gone on to work in government, education, the arts, and social justice.