Aven P. Satre Meloy ’13 is among this year’s list of 32 Rhodes scholars. The Rhodes Scholarship will enable Satre Meloy to pursue a master of philosophy in geography and the environment at Oxford University in England. He has been interning in the White House Office of Energy and Climate Change.
“The Rhodes Scholarship is a prestigious honor recognized world-wide, and we are very proud for Aven,” said SCU President Michael Engh, S.J. “His commitment to ethics, leadership and social justice personify Jesuit ideals."
Satre Meloy majored in Political Science and Environmental Science with a minor in International Studies at SCU. While at SCU, he won the Nobili Award in 2013, worked with the Center for Sustainability and became a Hackworth Fellow for the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics where he worked on issues of academic integrity. He also worked with One in Four, 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 Markkula Center for Applied Ethics.
Satre Meloy received a Fulbright grant 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 Leavey School of Business Global Fellows Program.