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Chesa Boudin of Trumbull College and Prateek Tandon of Pierson College have been awarded 2003 Rhodes Scholarships for study at Oxford University.
Boudin was also among the Yale students chosen as winners of a prestigious Marshall Scholarship (see related story), which he will forfeit to accept the Rhodes.
A native of Chicago, Illinois, Boudin majors in history and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. A student of Latin American development, Boudin spent his junior year at the Universidad de Chile as a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar and has volunteered in community service projects in Guatemala and Chile as well as at Yale-New Haven Hospital. Active in the student legal action movement and in criminal justice reform, Boudin has spoken around the country about the problems facing children of prison inmates. He has worked as a tutor, translator, interpreter and disc jockey. In a 2001 worldwide competition, he was named Goldman Sachs Global Leader for his outstanding leadership and public service.
His published papers include "The Memoir of a Man Who Overcame a Bleak Past and Found a Bright Future" (Chicago Tribune Book Review) and "In Prison Again" (Salon.com.) He is at work on an autobiographical memoir.
He plans to pursue his M.Phil. in development studies focusing on economics, sociology and history.
Tandon, of Watertown, Massachusetts, majors in African studies and economics. He has been engaged in a number of humanitarian projects during his college career. These include helping to establish a relief project for war victims in Kashmir, an area that has long been a source of contention between neighboring Pakistan and India; and working with children who have been orphaned by AIDS at a health center in Somalia. Closer to home, he has served in a soup kitchen in New Haven and, as a highly ranked varsity tennis player, he has participated in athletic outreach programs with area public school students.
At Yale, Tandon has worked as a research assistant for Gustav Ranis, the Henry R. Luce Director of the Yale Center of International and Area Studies and the Frank Altschul Professor of International Economics. For his senior projects, Tandon is doing a study of access to the Internet in rural areas of India and researching the possibility of East African countries forming an economic alliance on the order of the European Union.
At Oxford, Tandon intends to pursue a doctorate in development studies, which combines the disciplines of anthropology, politics and economics.
Boudin and Tandon are among 32 American students chosen in a nationwide competition. Rhodes Scholarships provide two or three years of study at the University of Oxford in England. The oldest of the international study awards available to American students, the Rhodes Scholarships were created in 1902 by British philanthropist and colonial pioneer Cecil Rhodes. Applicants are chosen on the basis of the criteria set down in Rhodes' will: "high academic achievement, integrity of character, a spirit of unselfishness, respect for others, potential for leadership and physical vigor."
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