Stanford Student Named As 2011 Rhodes Scholar
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- A student at Stanford University has been named a Rhodes Scholar for 2011.
The Rhodes Trust on Sunday named Varun Sivarum as one of 32 American students chosen for a scholarship, which provide all expenses for two or three years of study at Oxford University in England.
Sivarum, who lives in Monte Sereno, is a senior at the university, majoring in engineering physics and international relations.
He has previously been awarded Stanford prizes for excellence in humanities and political science, as well as in engineering.
Sivarum is chair of the undergraduate senate, undergraduate representative to the board of trustees and to the faculty senate, and captain of an Indian dance team.
He has conducted engineering research in Germany and in the Stanford synchrotron radiation laboratory.
Sivarum plans on working on solar energy materials at Oxford.
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