Patrick Beyrer, C’21, G’21, and Brook Jiang, C’20, W’20, have been selected as 2021 Yenching Scholars, with full funding to pursue an interdisciplinary master’s degree in China studies at the Yenching Academy of Peking University in Beijing.

Mr. Beyrer and Ms. Jiang are among the 117 scholars chosen from 37 countries to enroll in the one-year program beginning in September. Six scholars affiliated with Penn have been chosen since the program’s launch in 2015.

Mr. Beyrer, from Rockville Centre, New York, is pursuing a combined bachelor’s and master’s degree in East Asian languages and civilizations with a concentration in Chinese and a minor in science, technology, and society. He has been involved in radiology research at the Perelman School of Medicine and has studied abroad in China twice through the Department of State’s National Security Language Initiative for Youth and Critical Language Scholarship programs. He intends to study the legal dimensions of Chinese pharmaceutical exports to international markets.

Ms. Jiang, who is from Bridgewater, New Jersey, graduated in May 2020. As a student in the Huntsman Program in International Studies and Business, she earned a bachelor’s degree in international studies and a minor in French, and a bachelor’s degree in economics with a concentration in management and finance from the Wharton School. Ms. Jiang was president of the Penn Ivy Council and vice president of the Wharton Asia Exchange and helped organize Wharton’s 25th Organizational Behavior Research conference. Ms. Jiang plans to explore how entrepreneurs can collaborate with policymakers to build sustainable infrastructure solutions.