Reflections on the Past, Present, and Future of the Rhodes Scholarships
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105 students from 38 nationalities selected as Rhodes Scholars for 2024
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Meet our 2025 Global Rhodes Scholars Elect, Karla Bayas and Wilhem Hector 🌟 Pictured here with Global National Secretary, Muloongo Muchelemba at the Global Scholarship selection weekend in Rhodes House.
Wilhem is a student from Port-au-Prince, Haiti, majoring in Mechanical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His long-term goals are split between pioneering Haiti’s renewable energy infrastructure and expanding hands-on opportunities in the country‘s national curriculum. Outside studying, he enjoys planning events and playing basketball.
Karla shares: "I am the first Ecuadorian awarded the Global Rhodes Scholarship, enabling me to pursue postgraduate study at the University of Oxford and take pivotal steps toward my goal of becoming a judge dedicated to challenging systemic abuse, human rights violations, and environmental injustice."
Congratulations Karla and Wilhelm! We can't wait to welcome you back to Rhodes House in 2025 🎉
A huge thank you to everyone who made #TechAndSociety2024 a powerful gathering of ideas, innovation, and inspiration✨
This year’s Forum explored how thoughtfully-developed technology can drive positive change, empower communities, and uncover opportunities to transform our shared future.
Our community—extending beyond Scholars and partners—came together with curiosity and optimism, to envision a future where technology enhances societal well-being and global sustainability.
The Rhodes Forum on Technology & Society was made possible through the generous support of our donor Kevin Xu and our valued partners: Equitech Futures Atlantic Fellows and the Entrepreneurship Centre at Oxford Saïd
The day is here! The Rhodes Forum on Technology & Society 2024 is about to kick off. We’re looking forward to a day full of keynotes, panels, interactive sessions and the chance to meet and mingle with fellow changemakers.
Our #RhodesScholars are ready to welcome delegates at Rhodes House! Follow along on our stories for highlights from the event. #TechAndSociety2024
Congratulations to the incredible Global Rhodes Scholarship 2025 Finalists! 💫
⭐ Valerie Aguilar Dellisanti #Peru & Brown University
⭐ Karla Bayas #Ecuador & Universidad San Francisco de Quito
⭐ Mouna Chatt #Denmark & The University of Edinburgh
⭐ Mariam Habib Matta #Egypt & The London School of Economics and Political Science - LSE
⭐ Wilhem Hector #Haiti & Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
⭐ Nino Nadirashvili #Georgia & Duke Kunshan University
⭐ Ruslan Peredelskyi #Ukraine & Bates College
⭐ Karina Piotrowska #Poland & Durham University
⭐ Ananda Santos Figueiredo #Brazil & Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
⭐ Celestine Wenardy #Indonesia & Stanford University
This week, ten outstanding young changemakers joined us at Rhodes House to interview for the Global Rhodes Scholarships - an opportunity to connect with each other, meet Rhodes Scholars and staff, and explore life at the University of Oxford.
Sincere thanks to the universities that nominated these exceptional finalists and to the referees who supported their applications. It was a pleasure to meet each and every one of you, and we’re excited to see where your passion and talent will lead!
The Global #RhodesScholarship offers a fully funded, transformative postgraduate education experience at University of Oxford. It’s available to applicants from countries not covered by a Rhodes constituency, and to apply you must be nominated by your university. Applications for 2026 open on 1 June, learn more via the link in bio.
With only 3 days to go, we asked #RhodesScholars what they are most looking forward to at the Rhodes Forum on Technology and Society 💫
We can’t wait to welcome speakers and attendees from around the world to Rhodes House and online on Saturday 2 November to explore the impact and potential of technology and innovation in a rapidly changing world 🌎
In-person registrations have now closed, but you can still register to attend online at the link in our bio ➡️ bit.ly/TechAndSociety2024
#TechAndSociety2024
This International Internet Day, we're celebrating #RhodesScholar Dr Joy Buolamwini @poetofcode founder of the Algorithmic Justice League @ajlunited that works to challenge bias in decision-making software using art, advocacy and research to illuminate the social implications of artificial intelligence. 🌐
In her book 'Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What is Human in a World of Machines', she reflects on where her search for truth began: "While my mother asked questions of colours, my father asked questions of cells. In the midst of their explorations, I began to ask questions about computers. (...) And so it was that, surrounded by art and science from a very young age, I was emboldened to explore, to ask questions, to dare to alter what seemed fixed, and also to view the artist's and the scientist's search for truth as common companions." ⚖️
🔎 Learn more about the Algorithmic Justice League at www.ajl.org or read about Joy's journey at www.unmasking.ai
📷 Photo by Tom Lindboe
#InternationalInternetDay #JoyBuolamwini #EthicsInAI #TechForGood #UnmaskingAI #ArtificialIntelligence #AlgorithmicBias #HumanCentredAI #TechEquity
Congratulations to all our #RhodesScholars who matriculated last weekend! 🎓🎊
What do our upper year #RhodesScholars wish they'd known before coming to Oxford? ➡️ Read their advice for our recently arrived Scholars.
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During Welcome Week, our Registrar & Director of Scholar Affairs Mary Eaton shared a few tips for the new #RhodesScholars:
✨ Our selection committees saw something special in each of you, different for each one. You don’t need to justify your selection to us or to one another.
✨ Oxford is a complex institution and difficult to navigate. There are huge differences of workload across courses … but all will want you to be more self-directed about your work.
✨ Oxford (and the British in general) are not good at affirmation. Accept that you won’t know how you are performing compared to your peers and it may be a while until you get feedback.
✨ Be kind and patient with one another, you are all experiencing the same transitions. If things get tough, talk to Mary - as the longest serving member of the Rhodes Trust, you are unlikely to shock or disappoint!
✨ Finally, upper year Scholars are keen to help. Lean on their generosity and wisdom!
Do you have any tips to share with our Class of 2024 Scholars?
#RhodesHouse #RhodesScholar #RhodesScholarship#Scholarship #StudyAbroad #Oxford #OxfordUniversity
A warm and fuzzy thank you to the knitters and crocheters of the Rhodes community who helped create these welcoming garlands of flowers and pompoms on the Rhodes House garden gates. We've even had a contribution all the way from Aotearoa New Zealand! 🧶
Special shout out to our friends at Oxford Drunken Knitwits and Albert the sausage dog for their creative consultancy, Selection Manager Freya who helped bring the project to life, and our Housekeeper Pam who made 100s of pompoms on her evenings and weekends.
Whatever the weather, the bright colours are bringing a smile to people passing the gates every day 🤗
Well done to members of the Rhodes community who ran the Oxford Half Marathon on Sunday!
The Rhodes Runners were fundraising for SpecialEffect, a charity that helps people with physical disabilities access video games and other tech, supporting inclusion and helping people have fun. Support our runners and donate to this important cause at their Just Giving page: www.justgiving.com/team/rhodes-runners-1725633789…
Pictured are Rhodes staff Annabel, Matt, Gareth, Lottie and Nick 🏃
How it started ➡️ how it’s going!
Our new Canadian #RhodesScholars’ journey from home to Oxford:
👋 goodbye dinner in Canada with alumni
✈️ to the airport
🏡 to Rhodes House!
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