Three win international Rhodes
A Harvard senior and two recent alumnae — one the sister of a 2004 winner — have been named international Rhodes Scholars, and will join the six American Harvard students who will head to the University of Oxford next fall. The award, one of the most prestigious in academia, each year recognizes 83 scholars for their scholastic achievement, personal integrity, leadership potential, and physical vigor. Created more than a century ago by the will of British philanthropist Cecil Rhodes, the scholarships cover all costs for two or three years of study at Oxford. “The power of educational opportunities” For Naseemah Mohamed ’12, the award has personal and national historical resonance, a chance both to replicate the success of her sister Shazrene, a Harvard graduate and now an astrophysicist, and “to give back to my country” — Zimbabwe, part of the former Rhodesia — “and continent and ultimately combat the legacy of Cecil John...