Yale senior Brandon Levin awarded Keasbey Scholarship to study at Oxford

Brandon Levin, a senior in Yale College, was awarded a scholarship from the Keasbey Memorial Foundation. With its support, he plans to study global governance and diplomacy and public policy at the University of Oxford.

The Keasbey Foundation selects students from 12 colleges and universities on the east coast. Each year, four of these colleges are allowed to nominate two or three candidates for consideration by the Keasbey Foundation. The successful candidate should demonstrate “academic excellence, active participation in extracurricular activities, leadership abilities, and the promise of personally and intellectually benefiting from two years of study in Britain.”

Students who receive a Keasbey scholarship are awarded up to two years of full funding, including tuition, fees, and living expenses, either to read for a second undergraduate degree or to attend a graduate program at one of the universities with which the Keasbey Foundation is affiliated in the United Kingdom.

Levin is an ethics, politics, and economics major in Davenport College. He has served as president of the Yale College Council, as the founding president of Student and Alumni of Yale, and on the most recent search committee for the president of Yale. He has been a Whiffenpoof, a member of Spizzwinks, and the Yale Glee Club, and has been active with the Yale Baroque Opera. His awards include the John Thouron Prize for summer study at the University of Cambridge, the Arthur Liman Public Interest Fellowship, and a Woodbridge Fellowship.