Eli awarded Rhodes
Only one student from Yale received a Rhodes scholarship for two years of study at Oxford University this fall, marking a five-year low in Rhodes recipients for Yale.
Jarrad Aguirre ’09, a molecular, cellular and developmental biology major in Davenport College, was named a Rhodes scholar last week. In comparison, three Princeton University students and two Harvard University students, in addition to one Harvard graduate student, received the Rhodes scholarship, which is considered the world’s most prestigious postgraduate academic scholarship.
But Yale’s decline in winners...
