A Rhodes Scholarship: Raju Raval

c. 2000

Raju Raval was born in Fort Wayne to two naturalized citizens who had come from Gujarat, India, and went from the city to Indiana University, where he was a Herman B Wells Scholar, and then to two of the most selective fellowships in American education at once: he is carried on the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans' roster as a fellow, and he held a Rhodes Scholarship at the University of Oxford, where he took a doctorate in clinical medicine. He had also won a Truman Scholarship as an undergraduate. He took his medical degree at the University of Pennsylvania in 2009 and practices radiation oncology. The Rhodes Trust does not publish its scholars' birthplaces as a list; Raval's Fort Wayne birth rests on his Soros fellowship biography, and the scholarship on the same record — the city's Rhodes line is one name long, and this is it.

Sources:

1. Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans, fellow biography of Raju Raval — born in Fort Wayne, Indiana; Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, DPhil in clinical medicine; MD, University of Pennsylvania, 2009; Truman Scholar; Wells Scholar.
2. The Communicator, Indiana University–Purdue University Fort Wayne student newspaper, 11 December 2002 — Raju Raval of Fort Wayne already cited as a Rhodes Scholar in reporting a later Indiana University selection.