Congratulations to Matthew Baum ’09 and Geoffrey Shaw ’10, Yale’s newest Rhodes Scholars. See their bios below from the Rhodes Scholarships website, which has a list of the winners. Not that we’re keeping score, but in case you’re wondering: Harvard had 5, MIT 3, West Point and UNC–Chapel Hill also had two. And some folks in Missouri are very proud of Andrew McCall, the first-ever Rhodes Scholar from Truman State University.
Matthew L. Baum, Watertown, graduated from Yale University in May with a major in molecular, cellular, and developmental biology. He is currently studying for an M.Sc. in neuroscience at Trinity College, Ireland, as a Mitchell Scholar. Matthew has done research on Fragile-X syndrome at Yale, and on bipolar disorder at Trinity College. He was president of Yale wresting, played on the Yale rugby team, and coordinated a Yale community service program. Matthew intends to do a doctorate in neuroethics at Oxford.
Geoffrey C. Shaw, Belvedere, is a senior at Yale University where he majors in philosophy. He is editor-in-chief of the Yale Philosophy Review, and was founding editor-in-chief of a campus political magazine. He also serves on the committee of Yale College for major student discipline cases, and is chairman of the Independent Party at the Yale Political Union. Geoffrey has also been a community volunteer in Kazakhstan, and an English instructor in China. He plans to do the B.Phil. in philosophy at Oxford, with a focus on legal philosophy.
