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UW alumna named Rhodes Scholar
Emma Brunskill of Edmonds started college at age 15 and is currently a 19-year-old MIT grad student
Monday, December 11, 2000
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER STAFF
A University of Washington graduate who began college when she was 15 has been named a Rhodes Scholar.
Emma Brunskill of Edmonds, now a 19-year-old graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, had been a double major at UW studying physics and computer engineering.
She is among 32 Americans to win the latest round of prestigious Rhodes scholarships to attend Oxford University in England. Yesterday, Brunskill was traveling back to Boston from the West Coast and could not be reached.
"Emma has more promise than any other student I have encountered in my 23 years at the University of Washington," Ed Lazowska wrote in a recommendation letter on Brunskill's behalf. Lazowska is head of the UW's computer science and engineering department.
"She is utterly first class in absolutely every respect," Lazowska added.
Brunskill entered the UW through its Early Entrance Program targeting high-achieving teens younger than 18.
During her four years at the UW, she was a member of research teams in medical genetics, physical chemistry, geophysics and atomic physics.
During her first two years at the UW, Brunskill swam and rowed competitively.
She also coordinated the undergraduate mentoring program for the computer science and engineering department.
In her senior year, she was runner-up in the national Computing Research Association's Outstanding Undergraduate competition.
She also was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and chosen as a Mary Gates Scholar, among other honors.
The scholarship winners, announced late Saturday, were chosen from among 950 applicants nationally.
Rhodes scholarships, created in 1902 by the will of British philanthropist Cecil Rhodes, provide two or three years of study at Oxford University in England. Winners are named based on academic achievement, personal integrity, leadership and athletic ability.
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