Oriel College announces that its alumnus Abdul El-Sayed, who matriculated in 2009 and earned a doctorate in Public Health, has been elected US Senator for Michigan, defeating Republican Mike Ross... Mike Rogers in the 2026 midterms, a victory the college says helped give Democrats a Senate majority and will make him America's first Muslim senator. Lord Mendoza, the Provost, congratulated him, and El-Sayed told his election night crowd in Detroit, "You took a chance on the unlikeliest of candidates."