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Fourteen Miami students, alumni named Fulbright semifinalists

Collage of Fulbright semifinalists
Row 1: Melinda Barman, Matthew Brunn, Charles Ellis, Christine Emanuelli, Cyle Ginsberg; Row 2: Stephanie Hull, Asad Ikemba, Pietro Lanza di Scalea, Alexander Massa; Row 3: Meredith Perkins, Sofia Rebull, Rachelle Swan, Matthew Sweet, Andrew Whitson
Student Success Alumni Success Research and Innovation

Fourteen Miami students, alumni named Fulbright semifinalists

Row 1: Melinda Barman, Matthew Brunn, Charles Ellis, Christine Emanuelli, Cyle Ginsberg; Row 2: Stephanie Hull, Asad Ikemba, Pietro Lanza di Scalea, Alexander Massa; Row 3: Meredith Perkins, Sofia Rebull, Rachelle Swan, Matthew Sweet, Andrew Whitson

Fourteen Miami students and alumni are semifinalists in the 2025-2026 Fulbright U.S. Student Program competition.

Nine undergraduates, three graduate students, and two alumni have been recommended by the U.S. National Screening Committees for further consideration by the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board in the countries to which they applied. The final results of the competition will be released later this spring.

Miami had a total of twenty applicants to sixteen different countries during the 2025-2026 application cycle.

The Miami semifinalists are:

Melinda Barman – Integrated Science Education; Chemistry; German
English Teaching Assistant Award, Germany

Matthew Brunn ‘23 – B.A., Political Science, History; History, Master’s Program
English Teaching Assistant Award, Argentina

Charles Ellis – Biomedical Engineering; Premedical Studies
English Teaching Assistant Award, Spain

Christine Emanuelli – East Asian Languages and Cultures; International Studies
Korean Studies Graduate Degree Award, South Korea

Cyle Ginsberg – International Studies; Economics
English Teaching Assistant Award, Morocco

Stephanie Hull ‘24 – M.A., Biology (Project Dragonfly)
Open Study/Research Award, Namibia

Asad Ikemba – Educational Leadership, Doctoral Program
Open Study/Research Award, Tanzania

Pietro Lanza di Scalea – History
Fulbright-Luiss Award for MA Program in Business, Government, Law, and Political Economics

Alexander Massa – Political Science; Philosophy
English Teaching Assistant Award, Portugal

Meredith Perkins – English: Creative Writing; Diplomacy and Global Politics
Fulbright/University of East Anglia Award, United Kingdom

Sofia Rebull – Biology; Premedical Studies
Open Study/Research Award, Peru

Rachelle Swan ’24 – B.S., Art Education
Open Study/Research Award, Ghana

Matthew Sweet – Computer Science BS/MSCS Combined Program
U.S.-Korea Presidential STEM Initiative Award, South Korea

Andrew Whitson – Chinese Education; Linguistics; East Asian Languages and Cultures
English Teaching Assistant Award, Taiwan