One College of Science alumna and one Ph.D. student have been named 2025-2026 Fulbright U.S. Student Program recipients, meaning they'll be funded to travel and conduct research abroad for a year.
Over the past decade, 19 College of Science students and alumni have received Fulbright awards. Their projects have taken them across the globe – from laboratories in Europe to field sites in Asia and South America – reflecting the breadth of scientific inquiry and the international reach of the College's research community.
Brenna Prevelige is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in integrative biology, and is expected to graduate in 2028. For her Fulbright, she will conduct transdisciplinary research on Gandomera mushrooms in Nepal with Shiva Devkota of the Gendaki Province Academy of Science and Technology. Prevelige's proposed research will shed light on the cultural role of the Ganoderma mushroom as well as generate biological data which she will share with a local nonprofit conservation organization. Prevelige hopes to co-develop affordable genomic technologies in Nepal. This work will directly inform her dissertation of Ganoderma ethnobiology in the U.S. and Nepal. She aims to become and international professor working at the intersection of scientific and place-based knowledge.
