Trussville native nominated for prestigious Rhodes Scholarship

By Wade Berry

Trussville native Trey Field is a Rhodes Scholarship nominee at Auburn University. Students awarded these scholarships will pursue their individual fields of study at prestigious universities in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

“These students evoke the core values of Auburn University,” Melissa Baumann, assistant provost for undergraduate studies and director of the Honors College, said. “They have succeeded through hard work in their courses and extracurricular activities and they are men and women of character. These scholarships are some of the most prestigious international awards, and we are pleased to nominate them.”

Trussville native Trey Field is a Rhodes Scholarship nominee at Auburn University.
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Five Auburn University seniors and one recent graduate are nominees for the Rhodes Scholarship, which gives 32 of the most outstanding young scholars in the country an opportunity to study at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.

The scholarship, one of the oldest in the world, is awarded to students with proven intellectual and academic achievement, integrity of character, qualities of leadership and proven respect for their fellow humankind.

Fields, a Trussville native, is an Honors College senior majoring in political science with a minor in community and civic engagement, all in the College of Liberal Arts. He serves as assistant vice president of student interests and executive vice president of initiatives for the Student Government Association. He has participated in an alternative spring break to Appalachia, joining Mark Wilson’s community and civic engagement class; he is an active member of the College Democrats; served as a Camp War Eagle counselor, the freshman orientation program for incoming students; and volunteered in the fall of 2015 as a tutor at the Lee County Youth Development Center. Fields’ major professor is Steven Brown in the Department of Political Science.