Fulbright US Student Program Edition
Andie Zou recently earned a bachelor’s degree in ecology, evolution, and natural resources with a certificate in environmental geomatics from Rutgers University. She is dedicated to wildlife conservation as well as science communication, and her research interests include parasitology, animal behavior, habitat selection, and ecological impacts of anthropogenic change. With the Fulbright US Student Research.. Read More.
Jo is currently a doctoral student in the human evolutionary sciences program of the Department of Anthropology at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. With the Fulbright US Student Research Program, she will be working with scholars at Universitas Nasional to conduct her fieldwork at Tuanan Research Station in Central Kalimantan. Her research examines.. Read More.
Dylan earned a bachelor’s degree in political science with a minor in Japanese from Kenyon College. His academic and professional interests center on the intersections of technology, democracy, law, youth civic life, and international affairs, with a particular focus on how emerging digital systems shape political and economic opportunity. His Fulbright research, conducted in partnership.. Read More.
Sejal earned a bachelor’s degree in Public Policy with a minor in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies from Duke University and later completed a master’s degree in Global Affairs at Tsinghua University as a Schwarzman Scholar. Her academic and professional work focuses on migration governance, refugee policy, and the legal frameworks that shape labor mobility.. Read More.
Alyx Bontrager earned a master’s degree in cultural anthropology and a bachelor’s degree in anthropology, with minors in art history and studio art, from the University of Georgia. Supported by the Fulbright US Student Program, her current project draws on each discipline by exploring local impacts and perceptions of tourism through the public artworks of.. Read More.
Natasha Yen is a recent graduate from Pitzer College with honors in Sociology and Environmental Analysis. She is dedicated to community-centered work with historically under-resourced communities, focusing on capacity building and resilience. She has been awarded a Fulbright Research Grant to study how urban development in Indonesia is reshaping street food communities. Her research, based.. Read More.
Timothy Lie is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude, and a Master of Science in Biology. Lie conducts research at the Center for Mitochondrial and Epigenomic Medicine (CMEM), studying the intersection of mitochondrial biology and SARS-CoV-2 infection. His work has contributed to four publications,.. Read More.
Morgan Tarpenning earned a bachelor’s degree in earth systems with a minor in human biology–global health from Stanford University. She is particularly interested in the intersection of human and environmental health and hopes to bring this perspective to a future career in medicine. Her Fulbright research focuses on trash management in Makassar, South Sulawesi, particularly.. Read More.
Maz Do, an Indonesian Vietnamese American writer based in New York, has been awarded a Fulbright US Student Program Award to work on her debut novel, “Ordinary Fruit,” hosted by Universitas Gadjah Mada. Her fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in prominent literary venues, including McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, jellyfish review, and diaCRITICS. In 2023, she.. Read More.
David R. Holdridge, a forester, has been awarded a Fulbright US Student Research grant to investigate linking the palm oil industry with the reclamation of abandoned surface tin mines on the Bangka Belitung Islands. He seeks to examine the effects of palm oil fruit bunch mulch on the properties of mined soils alongside the associated.. Read More.
