UW student from Mukilteo receives Rhodes Scholarship

Published 1:30 am Monday, November 24, 2025

EVERETT — A University of Washington student who grew up in Mukilteo received a prestigious Rhodes Scholarship, the university announced Friday.

Shubham Bansal, who grew up in the coastal Snohomish County city and attended Kamiak High School, will be one of only 32 students nationwide this year who receive the scholarship, according to a press release from the University of Washington. He is the first student from the university to receive the scholarship since 2012, and the 38th in the institution’s history. Bansal is currently a senior at the university.

The Rhodes Scholarship pays for students to undertake postgraduate education at the University of Oxford. Students are selected by a number of independent committees in the United States, the University of Washington wrote.

Bansal began studying at the University of Washington as a 16-year-old, according to the release. During his time at the university, he has studied the immune system, neurodevelopmental disorders, and anthropology, the release read. He also founded a Seattle-based nonprofit, Narcare, that works to prevent overdose deaths through community outreach and distribution of Naloxone, a medication that can reverse opioid overdoses.

According to the university, Bansal plans to pursue master’s degrees in public policy and health service improvement and evaluation. He hopes to train as a physician in addiction medicine and design programs that expand access to evidence-based care, the university wrote.

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