Penn Engineers Awarded Fulbright 2026-27 U.S. Student Program Grants

Three Penn Engineers have been offered Fulbright U.S. Student Program grants for the 2026-27 academic year. They will conduct research or teach English in Malaysia, Switzerland 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.

Penn Engineering’s Fulbright grant recipients for 2026-27 are:

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

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