Brown Scholar Anish Easwaran, a senior biomedical engineering student, has been selected as a Rhodes Scholar Finalist. The Rhodes Scholarship is the most prestigious, fully funded, merit-based scholarship for postgraduate students worldwide. Winners study at the University of Oxford for 2 or more years. Anish is also a nominee for the Marshall Scholarship.
Anish was also selected as one of 50 students nationwide who received the Phi Kappa Phi Pioneer Award. Phi Kappa Phi is the nation’s oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines. The Pioneer Award is designed to encourage and reward undergraduate students for developing the research, engagement, and leadership skills necessary to become a successful scholar.
Anish is also a Dean’s Excellence Award winner, recipient of the Craig C. Brown Outstanding Senior Engineer, an Innovation Excellence Award from the Center for Advancing Innovation as a part of the Global Health Innovation Challenge, and an awardee of the Clinton Global Initiative Fellowship for his humanitarian impact with Aegis Armor, a snakebite prevention device Anish co-founded for agricultural workers in developing nations.
As part of the Center for Advancing Innovation Accelerator, Anish and his team were selected as one of 13 winners of the Global Health Innovation Challenge for their invention, ElastaScan. ElastaScan is a real-time muscle activation tracker that provides users with the ability to target and correct relevant muscle groups resulting in enhanced safety by preventing movements that may contribute to injury during therapy exercises.
This winter, Anish will travel to India to continue working closely with the farmers currently using another of his inventions, Aegis Armor to receive feedback necessary for improving the product’s design.
He will also expand Aegis Armor’s impact across the region, while establishing a new manufacturing line to increase production capacity.
Winning the Marshall or Rhodes Scholarships will provide Anish with the tools to approach global health challenges ethically and collaboratively, while improving his ability to design and implement scalable solutions that address healthcare inequities. After graduation, Anish will be applying to both graduate school and medical school with the goal of pursuing a career in global health innovation. He aims to address the challenges encountered in his future practice by developing solutions that improve healthcare on a global scale.
