December 8, 2014
Our own Ben Mappin-Kasirer (TD’14) has been named Yale’s fifth Rhodes Scholar for this year! Ben applied out of his current graduate program at McGill in Canada and so was named out of the Quebec region after the U.S. candidates had been announced. A great achievement for Ben, great for TD and great for Yale! Congratulations Ben!
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Ben’s Rhodes Bio:
Benjamin is from Montreal and is a medical student at McGill University. He graduated from Yale in 2014, where he majored in French Literature and was awarded the James T. King Prize for his research on science and the weather in Proust. As an undergraduate, he was involved in the Yale Journal of Public Health, Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism, and L’Amuse-Bouche, the Journal of French Culture. He is interested in humanities as a setting to think about medical ethics and health policy. For the past 10 years, he has been a competitive fencer, namely competing for Team Canada at the 2009 Cadet World Championships and as squad captain, manager, and member of the starting lineup of the Yale Varsity Fencing team.