Five students at U.S. military academies and three each from Yale University, Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology were among the 32 American winners named Sunday as 2026 Rhodes scholars .

The group includes students focused on housing, health outcomes, sustainability and prison reentry programs.

Three are women from or studying in Pennsylvania:

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.

Aruna Balasubramanian , Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, is a senior at Yale University, where she is completing double majors in anthropology and history. Her senior thesis examines the role that t

See Full Page