March 8, 2024
University of Oregon senior Nayantara Arora is the first Duck since 2007—and the first UO woman ever—to win the Rhodes Scholarship, one of the oldest international fellowship awards in the world. The scholarship will fund Arora’s study at the University of Oxford, where she will pursue two master’s degrees, one in modeling for global health and another in international health and tropical medicine. She envisions a future for herself where she improves the health of whole communities and even a nation. She said she’d love to one day be the US Surgeon General. As a first-generation Indian American fluent in four languages, Arora recognizes the value of interdisciplinarity to solving major world problems and achieving success.