By Eric Quiñones

Woodrow Wilson School undergraduate alumnus Scott Moore '08 has been awarded a Rhodes Scholarship for graduate study at the University of Oxford.

He is among the 32 American college students who won the prestigious fellowships, which fund two or three years of study at Oxford, and is one of three Princeton recipients; classics major Stephen Hammer '09 and fellow alumnus and German major Timothy Nunan '08 also won. The three Princeton winners represented the most from any U.S. institution this year.

Moore earned certificates in environmental studies and Chinese language and culture in addition to his concentration in the Wilson School. Following his studies of environmental policy at Oxford, he hopes "to focus my career on enhancing and building upon the idea of international environmental cooperation, through work in the government, academic and NGO [nongovernmental organization] sectors."

Moore has been interested in global issues since his high school years. He graduated from Li Po Chun United World College of Hong Kong. Currently he is a Fulbright fellow with the Environmental Economics and Policy Study Group at Peking University in Beijing, where he is studying Chinese environmental policy "with an aim toward developing effective frameworks for international environmental cooperation."

In his junior year at Princeton, Moore was awarded a Truman Scholarship, which recognizes academic achievement, leadership and commitment to public service. As part of that award, he spent the summer after his graduation in Washington, D.C., as an intern with the international affairs journal Oxford International Review.

During his time at Princeton, Moore was co-chair of the editorial board of The Daily Princetonian student newspaper, an undergraduate fellow of the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, a fellow of the Religious Life Council and a member of Undergraduate Student Government's Committee on Background and Opportunity.

Stanley Katz, a lecturer with the rank of professor in the Wilson School, called Moore "one of the most remarkable and admirable students I have taught in 30 years at Princeton (or in 51 years of teaching, for that matter)."

"There never seemed to be enough hours in the day to accomplish what Scott managed to do, and yet he never seemed pressured. He is a deeply thoughtful fellow, as considerate as the day is long. He has all it takes to make a truly significant contribution to this country and to the world," Katz said. "But in my book what most distinguishes him is that he is one of the most fundamentally decent young people I have been privileged to work with. It truly has been a privilege to work with Scott. I have learned a lot from him."

In addition, Michael Solis WWS '07 has been named a George J. Mitchell Scholar and will spend a year studying international human rights law at the National University of Ireland, Galway. The Mitchell Scholarships are awarded to 12 American students each year by the Washington, D.C.-based U.S.-Ireland Alliance. Winners are selected from 300 applications from more than 150 colleges and universities nationwide.

Solis, who is from Ledgewood, N.J., majored in the Wilson School and earned certificates in Latin American studies, Spanish and Portuguese. He currently is a Princeton in Latin America fellow in Santiago, Chile, with Human Rights Watch and the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences. He is conducting research for both institutions on human rights, political discrimination in Venezuela, global security, arms control and conflict resolution. For the year following his graduation from Princeton, Solis was a Luce Scholar working for the National Human Rights Commission of Korea in Seoul, South Korea. At Princeton, he was involved in numerous service activities and was a member of the Princeton Triangle Club musical comedy troupe and the Princeton Taekwondo Club.

The Mitchell Scholarships recognize outstanding American students who exhibit the highest standards of academic excellence, leadership and community service. They are named in honor of the former U.S. senator and his role in the Northern Ireland peace process.