Twenty-one people with Stanford affiliations are among this year’s recipients of grants from the Fulbright U.S. Student Program. The awardees include 3 Stanford alums from the Bioengineering department:
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Clayton (Clay) Ellington, (BS in Bioengineering, ’20) France, will research mosquito-borne disease at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, France. He also hopes to continue rock climbing and has identified a climbing gym that is close to the Institut.
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Xóchitl Longstaff, (BS in Bioengineering, ’20)Colombia, will explore the attitudes and behaviors of physicians around the HPV vaccine in Cali and Barranquilla in the aftermath of a mass psychogenic illness that caused vaccination rates to decline.
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Victoria Yuan, (BSH in Biomedical Computation and Minor in Classics, ’20) Italy, will research hemodynamics and clot formation in the Berlin Heart EXCOR, an external pulsatile ventricular assist device, for infants and children with heart failure at the Politecnico di Milano.
The Fulbright U.S. Student Program is designed to build lasting connections between the people of the United States and the people of other countries. The program, which is open to both undergraduate and graduate students, has awarded grants to more than 1,900 U.S. citizens who will pursue special projects in more than 140 countries.
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