Twenty-Three Students and Alums Receive Fulbright Grants

Jun 7, 2023

Twenty-three Penn Arts & Sciences students and recent alums have been offered Fulbright U.S. Student Program grants for the 2023-24 academic year. They are among 29 total recipients from the University of Pennsylvania who will conduct research, pursue graduate degrees, or teach English in Belgium, Brazil, Colombia, Denmark, Ecuador, Estonia, France, Germany, Guatemala, India, Israel, Latvia, Mexico, Nepal, New Zealand, the West Bank-Palestine territories, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, and Thailand.

The Fulbright Program is the United States government’s flagship international educational exchange program, awarding grants to fund as long as 12 months of international experience. To read more about the Fulbright grant recipients for 2023-24, click here.

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