Stanford students and alumni awarded Fulbright grants

Fifteen Stanford seniors, graduate students, and recent alumni received grants from the Fulbright U.S. Student Program to study and teach abroad next year. The Stanford-affiliated grantees will travel to 12 countries, including Australia, Germany, Greece, Indonesia, Paraguay, South Korea, and Thailand, to pursue individually designed research projects, graduate study programs, or English teaching assistant programs.

The Fulbright U.S. Student Program, designed to build connections between people from the United States and those in other countries, awards grants annually to more than 1,900 U.S. students, artists, and early career professionals for projects in countries around the globe. 

Meet the Stanford U.S. Fulbright grantees

Sachin Allums (BS Symbolic Systems ’25) will teach English in South Korea, conduct a summer English camp, and lead an after-school club to further his understanding of the learning sciences in international contexts. 

Maria Correa (BS Environmental Systems Engineering ’25) will investigate transportation access and mobility for low-income, migrant individuals in Western Sydney, Australia, in collaboration with Western Sydney University and Transport for New South Wales. 

Mario DePavia (BA East Asian Studies ‘25, BS Computer Science ’25) will do a mixed-methods case study comparing support models for immigrant children in elementary schools in Japan, to identify effective practices and unmet needs as Japan’s foreign population rapidly grows. 

Bunmi Fariyike (BS Biomedical Engineering ’20, MD ’25) will characterize prehospital barriers to stroke care in Paraguay. Using mixed methods, he seeks to engage community stakeholders and the Ministry of Health in designing targeted educational and structural interventions.

Paw Mar Gay (BS Human Biology ’24) will teach English in Thailand while fostering health literacy, promoting mental wellness, and studying the link between language learning and community health development. 

Maya Green (BS Marine Biology ’25) will pursue a research-based master’s degree at the University of British Columbia, where she will study blue carbon storage valuation in the eelgrass ecosystem of James Bay in Eastern Canada. 

Thinzar Htwe (BS Science, Technology, and Society ’24) will pursue an MSc in Nutrition and Food Science in the United Kingdom, researching reformulations of staples like bread and cured meat, and advocating for more equitable food systems. 

Edward Huang (BS Computer Science ’25, MS Computer Science ’25), in a project in Germany, will develop and apply software to reconstruct historical pedigrees from DNA recovered from ancient sources such as bones. 

Brett Kelley (BS Environmental Systems Engineering ’25, pursuing an MS in Environmental Engineering) will develop groundwater models of the Glafkos aquifer with hopes of increasing water security in Greece’s third-largest city. 

Abby Kwon (BA Linguistics ’25), in a project in South Korea, will investigate gut-brain communication pathways and appetite-suppressing mechanisms in mouse models to inform the development of more effective obesity treatments. 

Jenny Nguyen (BHS Bioengineering ’25), in a project in Germany, will study the CB1 receptor system in alcohol use disorder, examining how pharmacological interventions influence alcohol craving, stress reactivity, and the neural circuits underlying addiction. 

Annika Penzer (BA Philosophy ’25) will investigate the ethical implications of gene therapies for deafness in Germany, using stakeholder interviews and surveys to examine how Nazi-era eugenic legacies influence contemporary attitudes. 

Sina Salessi (BA History ’10, MA History ’18, PhD candidate in History) will investigate the connection between the history of science and the political and economic history of property conceptions by examining archives in Taiwan. 

Morgan Tarpenning (BS Earth Systems ’25) will analyze community waste practices and perceptions in Makassar through the lens of mosquito breeding risk to inform local strategies for reducing dengue through improved waste management.

Ishita Verma (BS Biology ’25) will study how cleft care outcomes differ between urban and rural patients in the Netherlands, focusing on follow-up to understand how geography shapes access, continuity, and patient experience.

“Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies 8,180 acres, among the largest in the United States, and enrols over 17,000 students.”

Please visit the firm link to site