Three Yale students named 2024 Quad Fellows in STEM fields
Kumaresh Ramesh, Chantelle Pereira, and Stanley Tan
Three Yale graduate students are among the latest group of Quad Fellows, a scholarship program that helps support promising young scientists and technologists.
The Quad Fellowship is an initiative of the governments of Australia, India, Japan, and the United States. The fellowship sponsors exceptional master’s and doctoral students to study science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) in the U.S.
This year’s group of 50 fellows expands to include students from various Association of Southeast Asian Nation (ASEAN) countries, in addition to the initiative’s four partner countries. The fellowship aims to build connections among the next generation of scientists and technologists. The program is designed to support academic excellence and promote cross-cultural understanding and collaboration among participating countries.
Yale recipients for 2024 are Kumaresh Ramesh, an incoming master’s student in environmental management at the Yale School of the Environment (YSE); Chantelle Pereira, an incoming master’s student in chronic disease epidemiology at the Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) (Public Health); and Stanley Tan, a Ph.D. student in environmental science at GSAS.
Each student will receive a one-time stipend of $40,000 to be used for academic purposes. During their fellowship, the students will have the opportunity to network and engage in programming with accomplished individuals in STEM, government, and society.
Ramesh, who is from India, completed his undergraduate degree in energy systems engineering from IIT Bombay and later worked with Black & Beatch Global Advisory on repurposing coal-fired power plants. He also worked as a research analyst with the Energy Transitions Team at the Council on Energy, Environment and Water, a New Delhi-based nonprofit. Ramesh is part of the Master of Environmental Management program at YSE. In his work, he hopes to influence interactions between the public, policymakers, and industry in order to hasten the transition to net zero.
Pereira, who is from Australia, plans to study endometriosis and neuroscience at the Yale School of Public Health with the goal of reducing endometriosis-related suffering and bringing more awareness of the disease to decision-makers, educators, and healthcare professionals. Pereira had been selected as a 2023 Quad Fellow but chose to defer the fellowship to this year. She co-founded the Cognitive and Brain Sciences Student Society at Macquarie University in Australia, where she was the winner of the 2022 Emotiv Prize for Cognitive and Brain Sciences.
Tan, who is from Singapore, obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in environmental studies from Yale-NUS College at the National University of Singapore. He previously worked at the U.N. Climate Change Secretariat and is a recipient of the Lewis B. Cullman Fellowship at the New York Botanical Garden. He uses field experiments and computational techniques to study the influence of plant-microbe interactions on plant diversity.
The fellowship is administered by the Institute of International Education (IIE), a global not-for-profit organization that manages many of the world’s most prestigious scholarship and fellowship programs.
