Kaplan Scholar Nia Robles Del Pino named 2024 Global Rhodes Scholar
November 21, 2023
Northwestern senior Nia Robles Del Pino—a Kaplan Humanities Scholar—is the first Argentinian to receive this honor; she will study mathematical physics at Oxford.
From Northwestern Now (November 21, 2023, by Amanda Morris):
"Northwestern University student Nia Robles Del Pino has been named a 2024 Global Rhodes Scholar — one of only two students selected worldwide among candidates from any country outside an existing Rhodes jurisdiction or competition zone.
Robles Del Pino is Northwestern’s 20th Rhodes Scholar and the University’s first student to win the Rhodes Global Scholarship. In another first: Robles Del Pino is the first Argentinian to receive the prestigious honor.
A senior in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Robles Del Pino is majoring in mathematics and physics. Her broader interests include developing new techniques for exploring scattering theory as well as inspiring other underrepresented minorities to pursue STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) disciplines.
The Rhodes Scholarships, the oldest and perhaps best-known award for international study, provide all expenses for multiple years of study at the University of Oxford in England. An independent committee selects scholars based on their exceptional academic achievements and demonstrated ambitions for social impact."
Read the full Northwestern Now article here: https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2023/11/scholar-activist-nia-robles-del-pino-named-2024-global-rhodes-scholar/
Nia Robles Del Pino was a first-year Kaplan Humanities Scholar of the Kaplan Institute in 2020-2021. In Fall 2020, she was a student in Alternative Americas: Science Fiction and Speculative Futures taught by Jules Law (English), Juan Martinez (English), and Kelly Wisecup (English and Center for Native American and Indigenous Research). She was also awarded the Kaplan Institute's Jean Gimbel Lane Writing Prize for her paper “'Kurdish Women breathing, existing' and the temporalities of the self" for her second Kaplan Scholars course, Reorienting, taught in Winter 2021 by Hannah Feldman (Art History), Rebecca Johnson (Middle East and North African Studies and English), and Kirsten Scheid (Sociology, Anthropology, and Media Studies at the American University of Beirut).