NEW YORK – Two University of Washington students are among 32 Rhodes Scholars named Sunday.
They are Byron D. Gray of Post Falls, Idaho, and Cameron W. Turtle of Pullman.
Other scholars include an aspiring anthropologist and a fluent Arabic speaker who works with orphans in Egypt, though another comes from an already famous pedigree: Ronan Farrow.
Farrow is the son of actress Mia Farrow and director Woody Allen and had a bachelor’s degree by the time he was 15. He enrolled at Yale Law School at age 17, graduating in 2009, and the 23-year-old now works as special adviser to the Secretary of State for global youth issues.
Farrow said that for now he’s focused on his work with the State Department, which is aimed at empowering young people to get involved politically and economically. At Oxford, though, he plans to study international development.
All will be awarded scholarships to study at Oxford University.
The awards provide all expenses for two or three years of study at the prestigious university in England. The winners were selected from 830 applicants endorsed by 299 different colleges and universities. The scholars will enter Oxford next October.
The value of the scholarships averages about $50,000 per year.
Rhodes Scholarships were created in 1902 by the will of British philanthropist Cecil Rhodes. Winners are selected on the basis of high academic achievement, personal integrity, leadership potential and physical vigor, among other attributes.
The American students will join an international group of scholars selected from 14 other jurisdictions around the world.
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