Seniors Byron Gray and Cameron Turtle have been named two of this year’s Rhodes Scholars and will head to the University of Oxford at the end of next year.
Gray, a law, societies, and justice; political science; and international studies triple major, and Turtle, who majors in bioengineering, join 30 other American students as recipients this year. The last time a UW student received the honor was in 2006.
“I’m obviously very pleased and honored to get this scholarship. … The award is much more of a comment on the faculty and peers that I’ve been able to interact with,” Gray said.
The awards come with two to three years of paid graduate study in Oxford, England.
He said the two were among a group of 16 students who interviewed in a northwest regional district, and, after a three-day interview process, both were announced as award recipients.
“It was kind of a crazy sort of reality-show type setting,” Gray said.
Turtle said that, over the past days, being awarded the scholarship still doesn’t feel like a reality.
“It’s a pretty surreal experience, the group of people that were there … it just seemed more and more unlikely that we would get it,” he said. “They announced [Byron’s] name first, and I thought, ‘Well, at least one of us got it,’ and then they announced me, too.”
Reach News Editor Nick Visser at news@dailyuw.com.
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