National Scholarship Recipients

Varsha Sarveshwar 2022-2023

Varsha Sarveshwar (’20) majored in Political Science, with minors in Public Policy and History. She is a Rhodes Scholar studying public policy at the University of Oxford. Previously, she worked as an assistant deputy cabinet secretary in the Office of California Governor Gavin Newsom. Her first year in the Governor’s Office was supported by UC Berkeley’s John Gardner Public Service Fellowship. At Berkeley, she received the 2020 Political Science Departmental Citation, the Travers Scholarship in Ethics and Politics, and the Chancellor’s Award for Public Service. During her senior year, she […]

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Namrata Ramesh 2020-2021

Namrata is a senior at the University of California, Berkeley, pursuing a Physics (Honors) degree. Her senior thesis, supervised by Professor Naomi Ginsberg, involves understanding the dynamics of self assembly of gold nanocrystal superlattices using optical and x-ray scattering techniques. She has also worked on studying the trajectories of electrons in manganese doped halide perovskites using Monte Carlo simulations. At Oxford, she hopes to continue investigating the origins of intriguing phenomena in promising photovoltaic materials by being at the interface of experimental and computational physics. Namrata is also very passionate […]

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Zarko Perovic 2014-2015

Zarko Perovic grew up in Serbia and graduated from UC Berkeley, among the top five students in his class. His primary passion, which he developed in his childhood, is preventing war crimes. At the UC Berkeley War Crimes Studies Center, Zarko helped create the Virtual Tribunala project that synthesized the court proceedings of the Cambodia Tribunal for the benefit of victims of the Cambodian Genocide. After graduating, he worked at the Office of Global Criminal Justice at the U.S. State Department as a John Gardner Fellow, where he helped with […]

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Daniel Price 2013-2014

Past recipient - profile no longer available.

Asya Passinsky 2008-2009

Past recipient - profile no longer available.

Ankur Luthra 2002-2003

Past recipient - profile no longer available.

Rea Kazemi Gandjei 1990-1991

Past recipient - profile no longer available.

Tom Malinowski 1988-1989

Past recipient - profile no longer available.

Michele deCoteau 1987-1988

Past recipient - profile no longer available.

Adiambo Odaga 1986-1987

Past recipient - profile no longer available.

Lee Coldren 1964-1965

Past recipient - profile no longer available.

David M. Heilbron 1958-1959

Past recipient - profile no longer available.

Donald Glusker 1951-1952

Past recipient - profile no longer available.

John H. Richards 1951-1952

Past recipient - profile no longer available.

David S. Shwayder 1948-1949

Past recipient - profile no longer available.

Bruce Waybur 1937-1938

Past recipient - profile no longer available.

Franklin M. Brown 1936-1937

Past recipient - profile no longer available.

Turner McBaine 1932-1933

Past recipient - profile no longer available.

Joseph C. Hickenbotham 1931-1932

Past recipient - profile no longer available.

Alfred J. Orselli 1928-1929

Past recipient - profile no longer available.

John Whipple Olmstead 1925-1926

Past recipient - profile no longer available.

J. L. Merrill 1924-1925

Past recipient - profile no longer available.

Richard Scofield 1921-1922

Past recipient - profile no longer available.

William R. Dennes 1919-1920

Past recipient - profile no longer available.

Axel B. Gravem 1918-1919

Past recipient - profile no longer available.

F. D. Stephens 1913-1914

Past recipient - profile no longer available.

Farnham P. Griffiths 1907-1908

Past recipient - profile no longer available.

W. C. Crittenden 1904-1905

Past recipient - profile no longer available.