UHS alumna, Meghan Shea, is on her way to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar!

Shea is already an accomplished scholar. Among other honors, she was named one of Popular Mechanics' top 10 innovators of 2013 thanks to a filter she designed to remove E. coli bacteria from water. She was just 18 at the time.

At Stanford, as a student of environmental systems engineering, she has spent various terms studying the ocean in Hawaii and aboard a ship that sailed from Tahiti.

At Oxford, Shea plans to study in a program focused on nature, society, and environmental governance.

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