And the Rhodes goes to...

Updated on: Tuesday, December 07, 2010

Four Indian American students are among 32 US citizens who have been awarded the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship for all-expense-paid study at the University of Oxford in England starting in October 2011.

Aakash K Shah of New Jersey, Prerna Nadathur, Priya M Sury and Varun Sivaram of California were named for what Elliot F. Gerson, the American secretary of the Rhodes Trust, called “the oldest and best known award for international study, and arguably the most famous academic award available to Amer-ican college graduates.”

Of the four Indian American students, Aakash K Shah of Cliffside Park graduated from Ursinus College and is now in his first year at Harvard Medical School; Prerna Nadathur of Roseville is a senior at the University of Chicago, majoring in mathematics and minors in linguistics and philosophy. Priya M. Sury, also of Roseville, graduated summa cum laude in anthropology and Spanish from Washington University in St. Louis and is at present studying for an MD degree at the University of Minnesota and Varun S. Sivaram of Monte Sereno is a senior at Stanford, majoring in engineering physics and international relations. Sivaram has also won Stanford prizes for excellence in the Humanities and political science, as well as in engineering.

The total value of the scholarship is around $50,000 a year.

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