Babson 2007 Alum Wins Scholarship to Harvard Law

 2007 Babson alumnus Asad Rahim has won a Jack Kent Cooke Graduate Scholarship to Harvard University Law School.  Rahim, the son of Ibrahim and Hamidah Rahim, is from Chicago, Illinois.

The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation’s Graduate Scholarship Program enables a select group of remarkable students with demonstrated financial need to pursue graduate or professional study. The Foundation selects approximately 30 graduate scholars each year and awards up to $50,000 per year to each selected Scholar for up to six years.

Winning is not new to Rahim. In 2004, as a freshman, he won the Michael J. Conlon First-Year Writing Contest for his essay “Individualism and Recognition in Kyrie and ‘Christ in the House of Martha and Mary’.”  Later he won the Michael Sainovich Memorial Award for Outstanding Sophomore Achievement, and in 2005 he won the Sorenson Award for Meritorious Achievement. He won the Simeon F. Wooten, Sr. Memorial prize for Writing Excellence in 2006 and the Martin Luther King, Jr. Leadership Award in 2007. At commencement, he was awarded the College’s top student honor, the Roger Babson Award.

After graduation, he received a Humanity in Action Fellowship, a program where American students join university students from Europe for five weeks of intensive study of contemporary minority and human rights issues in the United States and Europe. He is currently in Hong Kong finishing a two-year service-based Princeton-in-Asia Fellowship. 

“I am infinitely grateful for the Jack Kent Cooke Graduate Scholarship,” Rahim said. “Now I am free to pursue my passion without worrying about overwhelming student loans. It will be an amazing opportunity to further study the subject areas that first piqued my interest at Babson.”