Parkway Graduate Named Rhodes Scholar

Fatima Sabar, a 2007 Parkway West High School graduate, was named a Rhodes Scholar. Sabar is one of 32 U.S. citizens and 80 people worldwide appointed to receive the Rhodes Scholarships.

The scholars receive all expenses paid for two or three years of study at the University of Oxford in England. In some cases the scholarships provide funding for four years.  

Sabar is a senior at Stanford University where she is reportedly majoring in biology and plans to pursue a master's degree in global health science at Oxford.

According to the Rhodes Scholarship Program, Sabar conducted research at Stanford's and Washington University's schools of medicine and worked on health projects in Mexico and Rwanda. She has also done volunteer work at the Pacific Free Health Clinic and is coordinating a health education project for migrant farm workers in Salinas Valley, CA.

Parkway School District officials said that at West High, Sabar took part in the Students and Teachers as Research Scientists program which pairs students with mentors from the University of Missouri-St. Louis, Saint Louis University and Washington University in St. Louis.