{"id":619993,"date":"2026-06-04T02:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T02:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/619993\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T02:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T02:45:08","slug":"two-penn-students-selected-to-study-uk-culture-at-fulbright-summer-institutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/619993\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Penn students selected to study UK culture at Fulbright summer institutes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two Penn students were accepted into the Fulbright United Kingdom Summer Institutes last month, where they will study the country\u2019s history and heritage.<\/p>\n

This summer, rising College juniors Demi Egunjobi and Eshaal Ubaid will attend the University of Bristol and King\u2019s College London, respectively. According to Rowena Boddington, interim executive director of the US-UK Fulbright Commission, students were selected for their intellectual curiosity, leadership, community involvement, and transatlantic engagement.<\/p>\n

\u201cThrough immersive academic and cultural experiences, they will deepen their knowledge while building lasting connections,\u201d Boddington wrote to The Daily Pennsylvanian.<\/p>\n

The Fulbright UK Summer Institutes seek<\/a> U.S. students with at least two years of undergraduate study remaining and little to no travel experience outside of North America. Funded by the Fulbright Commission, the program covers costs of tuition, airfare, and social programming.<\/p>\n

Egunjobi studies health and societies at Penn and will explore<\/a> arts, activism, and social justice this summer. In an interview with the DP, she explained that her interest in the program stems from a passion for activism.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI care a lot about student empowerment, student rights, and advocacy,\u201d Egunjobi said. \u201cI want to see how people approach activism and advocacy in a completely different environment.\u201d<\/p>\n

Previously, Egunjobi has worked with nonprofits and engaged in policy work such as walkouts, school curriculum changes, and participatory budgeting.<\/p>\n

Egunjobi told the DP that she saw similarities between Bristol and her hometown of Providence, R.I.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s the spirit of activism, togetherness, and community \u2014 and a willingness to create change for the community,\u201d Egunjobi said. \u201cI saw that a lot in Bristol, in terms of how they approached advocacy through protests with the 2020 George Floyd and racial reckoning, even though they don\u2019t have that big of a Black population.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ubaid is studying entrepreneurship, medicine, and international affairs at Penn. She will take the courses<\/a> \u201cModern Britain: Institutions, Power, and People\u201d and \u201cCritical Approaches to Sustainability and Development\u201d this summer.<\/p>\n

In an interview with the DP, Ubaid said her interest in the program stemmed from a \u201cgoal in life to discover how wrong I am about everything.\u201d Particularly, Ubaid expressed a desire to travel and encounter \u201cas many new things as possible\u201d and ultimately make things \u201cbetter in a kind of revolutionary way.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can\u2019t really do that without first seeing what the world has to offer because you don\u2019t know what bubbles and echo chambers you\u2019re in until you\u2019ve left them,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n

Ubaid chose King\u2019s College because she \u201cwanted to see what life was like in a city outside the United States\u201d within a country that \u201ctakes things like climate change a bit more seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n

Currently, Ubaid works at a startup which makes future planning more accessible to low-income students and addresses institutional inequities.<\/p>\n

\u201cI like thinking about how not just places, but institutions in countries expand and attain influence over time \u2014 and what it takes to change those institutions,\u201d Ubaid said. \u201cI want to change at least the institution of health care for the better and even beyond that.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Walter Lohmann \u2014 associate director for fellowships at the Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships \u2014 CURF supports students interested in opportunities like the Fulbright program \u201cwith one-on-one advising, essay draft reviews, and interview preparation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are fantastic opportunities to learn and grow in a challenging but supportive environment, and CURF staff enjoys supporting students in pursuing these meaningful experiences,\u201d Lohmann wrote to the DP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two Penn students were accepted into the Fulbright United Kingdom Summer Institutes last month, where they will study…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-619993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}