(Top row) Max Annunziata, Sangeetha Bhuyan, Solange Campos, and Nik Donoughe. (Second row) Preethi Jayaraman, Christine Kim, Enne Kim, Alexander Li, Noa Machover, and Shivek Narang. (Third row) Keanu Natan, Tammy Nguyen, Bedansh Pandey, Sophia Powell, Ana Richardson, and Grant Schatzman. (Bottom row) Andi Sycip, Julian Tash, Hannah Tsai, Zoie Weinsweig, and Claire Zhang.
Twenty-eight University of Pennsylvania students and alumni have been offered Fulbright U.S. Student Program grants for the 2026-27 academic year. The list includes 15 members of the undergraduate Class of 2026—all May graduates, two current graduate students, and eleven alumni.
They will conduct research, pursue graduate degrees, or teach English in countries including Brazil, Colombia, Germany, Japan, Malaysia, Moldova, Mongolia, North Macedonia, the Philippines, Romania, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, and Vietnam.
The Fulbright Program, which has rolling admissions, is the United States government’s flagship international educational exchange program, awarding grants to fund as long as 12 months of international experience. Penn consistently ranks as a “Top-Producing Institution” among those with the highest number of candidates selected for the Fulbright U.S. Student Program.
Among Penn’s Fulbright grant recipients for 2026-27 are twocurrent graduate students.
Julian Tash of Maryland is a doctoral candidate in history in the School of Arts & Sciences, studying the history of the Japanese Empire and Taiwan. He has been offered a Fulbright to examine how the development of Taiwanese identity in Japan from 1895 to 1972 intersected with and shaped Japanese ideas of human rights, democracy, and ethnicity in the Japanese empire and post-World War II Japanese state.
Noa Mori Machover of Waltham, Massachusetts, is a master’s candidate in the dual landscape architecture and fine arts program in the Weitzman School of Design. They have been offered a Fulbright to research and conduct an exhibition in collaboration with the University of Johannesburg in South Africa, studying the relational landscapes of platinum-group metals as they blur boundaries between formal and informal commodity supply chains.
Twelve awardees are fourth-years, all members of the Class of 2026 graduating May 18.
Max Annunziata of San Francisco, California, is an economics major, with a minor in Russian language and culture, from the College. He has been offered a Fulbright to teach English in Moldova.
Sangeetha Bhuyan of Philadelphia is a biology major in the College. She has been offered a Fulbright to conduct research at the University of Göttingen in Germany. Her research will compare childhood sulfatide storage disorders with adult neurodegenerative diseases to discover shared molecular features that can help guide the development of enhanced treatment protocols.
Solange Campos of Germantown, Maryland, is majoring in history, with a concentration in world history, and international relations from the College. She has been offered a Fulbright to teach English in Spain.
Christine Kim of Maryland is a politics, philosophy, and economics major with minors in history and legal studies from the College, developing an interest in the political economy of Eastern European countries. She has been offered a Fulbright to teach English in Romania.
Enne Kim of Buford, Georgia, is a double major in international relations and English in the College, and is an SNF Paideia Fellow. She has been offered a Fulbright to teach English in Taiwan.
Alex Li of Boston, Massachusetts, is a double major in the College in biology and East Asian languages and civilizations. He has been offered a Fulbright with the Hyman Lab to research connections between cell condensates and cancer at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Germany.
Keanu Natan of Santa Monica, California, is majoring in biology with a minor in chemistry on the pre-med track from the College, where his research includes human genetics, neurodegeneration, and global health policy. He has been offered a Fulbright to teach English in Mongolia.
Tammy Nguyen of Darien, Connecticut, is a chemical and biomolecular engineering major in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, and is submatriculating into the Urban Teaching Residency Program of the Graduate School of Education. She has been offered a Fulbright to teach English in Vietnam.
Bedansh Pandey of Johns Creek, Georgia, is a double major in history and international relations in the College. He has been offered a Fulbright to teach English in Spain.
Andi Therese SyCip of Manila, the Philippines, is a biology major in the College. She has been offered a Fulbright to conduct field-based research in Leyte Province, the Philippines, evaluating the effectiveness of mass drug administration programs for schistosomiasis to inform targeted, culturally responsive care.
Zoie Weinsweig of Proctorville, Ohio, is majoring in neuroscience with minors in Hispanic studies and chemistry in the College. She has been offered a Fulbright to teach English in Colombia.
Claire Zhang of Kinnelon, New Jersey, is a double major, majoring in bioengineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Science and in biology in the College. She has been offered a Fulbright to conduct research at Universiti Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, focused on building more sustainable and energy-efficient healthcare systems.
Among the alumni recipients there are six who graduated in 2025 and one from 2022.
Class of 2025
Nickolett (Nik) Donoughe of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, earned a bachelor’s degree in English and political science with minors in Hispanic studies and Latin American and Latinx Studies from the College. She has been offered a Fulbright to teach English in South Korea.
Preethi Jayaraman of Dallas, Texas, earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from the Wharton School with a concentration in marketing and a minor in creative writing from the College. She has been offered a Fulbright to teach English in Taiwan.
Shivek Narang of Fremont, California, earned bachelor’s degrees in cognitive science and neuroscience with honors from the College and a master’s degree in bioengineering from the School of Engineering and Applied Science. He has been offered a Fulbright to conduct research at NeuroRestore, a collaboration between EPFL and Lausanne University Hospital in Switzerland, studying closed-loop neuromodulation for restoring movement and function after neurological injury.
Sophia Powell of McLean, Virginia, earned a bachelor’s degree in history and political science from the College. She has been offered a Fulbright to teach English in North Macedonia.
Ana Lin Richardson of Chattanooga, Tennessee, earned a bachelor’s degree in political science with minors in anthropology and East Asian languages and civilizations from the College. She has been offered a Fulbright to study Korean politics and economy at Yonsei University in South Korea.
Hannah Tsai of Chicago, Illinois, earned a bachelor’s degree in international relations and East Asian Studies with a minor in history from the College. She has been offered a Fulbright to teach English in South Korea.
Class of 2022
Grant Schatzman earned a master’s degree as a Humanities Education Fellow in the Urban Teaching Apprenticeship program at the Graduate School of Education and has since worked in both public and private education and technology, with a focus on gamification. He has been offered a Fulbright to teach English in Brazil.
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