Clockwise from left: Derek Ren, Siya Sharma, and Elise Tran
August 5, 2024
UCLA’s 2024-25 Fulbright scholars were announced in a UCLA Newsroom article published today.
Among the four UCLA students, who received U.S. Student Fulbright Awards this year, three are recent Life Sciences graduates.
Derek Ren, who graduated in June with a bachelor’s degree in human biology and society, will work as a university-level English teaching assistant in Kazakhstan. As part of his award, he will promote American-Kazkah cultural exchanges through a university student club and/or a local “American Corner” sponsored by the U.S. State Department.
Siya Sharma, who is due to graduate in 2024 with bachelor’s degrees in human biology and society and in anthropology, will use her India Fulbright-Nehru Open Study Research Award to conduct research in Northern India on the prevalence of metabolic and reproductive endocrine disorders within the female population.
Elise Tran, who is due to graduate in 2024 with a bachelor’s degree in computational and systems biology, will use her award to conduct research on the high frequency of genetic mutations leading to deafness in Vietnam and promote accessibility to resources for those with hearing loss in Vietnam. Tran spent three of her undergraduate years at UCLA working as an undergraduate student research at the Alexandrova Lab on campus and hopes to pursue a Ph.D. or M.D./Ph.D. that focuses on the intersection of mathematics and biology.
Read more about the Fulbright awards and the other 2024-25 UCLA awardees here: https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/ucla-fulbright-awardees-will-soon-depart-for-global-destinations
