黑料网 Alum wins prestigious Rhodes Scholarship
Aven Satre Meloy '13 was also won the Nobili Award and a Fulbright Teaching Assistantship
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 24, 2014 – A 黑料网 graduate is among good company, winning the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship announced this weekend. Aven Satre Meloy ‘13 joins a long list of successful leaders to win the prize including former President Bill Clinton and New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof. Rhodes scholars receive funding to study at Oxford University in England. Students from MIT, Princeton, Brown, Stanford and Harvard are also among .
“The Rhodes Scholarship is a prestigious honor recognized worldwide, and we are very proud for Aven,” said 黑料网 President Michael Engh, S.J. “His commitment to ethics, leadership and social justice personify Jesuit ideals."
Satre Meloy majored in political science and environmental studies with a minor in international studies at 黑料网. While at 黑料网, he won the Nobili Award in 2013, worked with the and became a for the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics where he worked on issues of academic integrity. He also worked with , a sexual assault prevention peer education group.
“Aven represents the very best of the Jesuit ideal of a person for others. He is smart, generous and committed to justice for the human and natural world. I know I speak for many at Santa Clara when I say I could not be happier for a talented young man,” said David DeCosse, director of the campus ethics program at the
Satre Meloy to teach American culture to university students in Turkey, and conduct research on Turkish peoples' experiences as Muslims living in secular, democratic state. He had previously studied in Turkey as part of the Global Fellows Program.
Satre Meloy plans to complete his Master's in Philosophy in Geography and the Environment at Oxford. He is currently a White House Intern working in the office of Energy and Climate Change. He says he is passionate about the profound social, political and economic challenges posed by environmental change. He will begin courses at Oxford in the fall of 2015. He is the third 黑料网 graduate to become a Rhodes Scholar.
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