Mark Perfect is 3rd row down first person
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, Sixteen University of Pennsylvania students and alumni have been awarded Fulbright grants for the 2020-21 academic year, including nine undergraduates and one graduate student in the Class of 2020. They will conduct research or teach English in Belgium, Brazil, Germany, Indonesia, Jordan, Laos, Malaysia, Russia, Spain, South Africa, South Korea, and Ukraine. But for our purposes and perhaps more importantly one from Ridgewood NJ.
The Fulbright Program is the United States government’s flagship international educational exchange program, awarding grants to fund as long as 12 months of international experience. Most Fulbright grants are for individual study or research, or for the Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Program.
“The Fulbright U.S. Student Program provides an exceptional opportunity for American students to forge international relationships through educational and cultural exchange,” says Jane Morris, executive director of Penn’s Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships, which supports applicants. “Fulbright students from Penn represent not only our country abroad, but they also serve as outstanding ambassadors for Penn.”
One of the winners is a gentleman named Mark Perfect from Ridgewood NJ, Mark Perfect, from Ridgewood, New Jersey, graduated from the College in 2018, where he was a major in mathematical economics and a minor in statistics. He was awarded a Fulbright to teach English in Germany. Since graduation, he has worked at IBM as a data scientist. Perfect is interested in exploring data-driven ways of educational reform and aims to develop a comparative perspective of educational systems. At Penn his senior thesis investigated the impact of the Recovery School District, the first all-charter district in the nation, and was awarded the Joseph Warner Yardley Prize for its contribution to the field. Upon completion of his Fulbright, he plans to pursue a graduate degree in data science.
