Aakash Shah, a graduate of Ursinus College, Matthew Watters, a senior at the University of Delaware, and Andrew Lanham, a graduate of Haverford College, will all study at the University of Oxford in England. Shah, a native of Cliffside Park, N.J., graduated from Ursinus in May with a degree in inequality studies, biology and neuroscience and is enrolled in Harvard Medical School. At Ursinus, he ran track and worked with the United Students Against Sweatshops in Mexico and studied environmental health problems in the slums of India.
Watters, from Newark, Del., majors in neuroscience and minors in political science. He has worked in hospitals in South Sudan and Haiti and founded a student organization focused on relief work in Haiti. Watters is a nationally competitive mountain biker and will study for a degree in global health science. Lanham, from Wooster, Ohio, studied English and philosophy at Haverford. He was the captain of the cross-country team, served as the head of the college honor council, and interned with the Pennsylvania Humanities Council. Lanham now works as a resident tutor for a nonprofit that aids underprivileged minority students in Lower Merion Schools. He will study English at Oxford.