OURS National Scholarships

Scholarship: Rhodes Scholarship

Zarko Perovic

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 […]

Namrata Ramesh

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 […]

Varsha Sarveshwar

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 […]