Michele Smith Awarded 2010 Rhodes Scholarship
Miss Michèle Smith has been selected as the 2010 Bermuda’s Rhodes Scholar.
Miss Smith will receive all tution fees paid, cost of travel to Oxford, as well as a cash stipend of approximately £11,500 [$17,700] per year.
She graduated from the Bermuda High School for Girls [BHS] in 2006. While at BHS, she was an honours student throughout the later years and passed GCSEs in several subjects with top grades.
Miss Smith is currently studying for an Honours Degree in History with minor concentrations in Political Science and Economics at McGill University in Montréal, Canada.
She has been on the University Dean’s Honours List throughout her time at McGill and was awarded the Michael Silverthorne Book Prize by McGill’s History Department for her work.
She has received and maintained the Edward Beatty Entrance Scholarship as well as the Dudley & Deborah Butterfield Scholarship when she began at McGill in 2006. During her studies at McGill she was also became a member of the Golden Key International Honour Society, and received the Sara and Maurice Greenblatt Scholarship for Academic Achievement.
Michèle has been accepted at Pembroke College at Oxford and intends to read for a BA in Jurisprudence.
The Rhodes Scholarship is one of the most prestigious ones available. Other recepients in the news recently include 2010 Olympian Tucker Murphy and Endurance CEO David Cash.
Congrats Michele!