New Rhodes Scholars Include 2 From Massachusetts
BOSTON (AP) — Two people from Massachusetts are among the 32 new Rhodes scholars named this weekend, and 11 others have ties to universities in New England.
Noam Angrist of Brookline and Kate Nussenbaum of Newton are among the scholars who will attend the University of Oxford in England beginning in October 2015.
Angrist graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge in 2013 with majors in economics and mathematics. He did economic research for the World Bank, the White House and the Affordable Care Act while at MIT.
Nussenbaum is a senior at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, majoring in cognitive neuroscience and science and society. Her academic work has focused on how social factors distort learning capacity.
The other new Rhodes scholars include students at Yale, Harvard and Dartmouth.
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