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CLS Program News — July 27, 2023
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Della Tsivor: Connecting language, food and medicine in Korea
The rising Brown junior and aspiring doctor is in Busan for the summer to take intensive Korean language courses — and to investigate the surprising similarities between traditional medicine in Korea and her home country of Ghana.
CLS in the Press — July 27, 2023
CLS Russian Students Use their Language Skills to Help Refugees in Tbilisi, Georgia
CLS students in Tbilisi, Georgia have found an unexpected way to use their Russian language – to assist the community of refugees and displaced people in Tbilisi. Just a week into his program, CLS student, Colby Santana, began volunteering at Volunteer Tbilisi, an organization that provides medicin…
CLS Program News — July 26, 2023
UIC graduate student awarded State Department Critical Language Scholarship
University of Illinois Chicago graduate student was granted a U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship to study intensive Russian in Tbilisi, Georgia, this summer. Kendal McGinnis, UIC graduate student.
CLS in the Press — July 19, 2023
Huesa selected for U.S. State Department scholarship
Isabel Huesa, a rising senior majoring in global health and the environment, with minors in biology and in South Asian languages and cultures, all in Arts & Sciences, at Washington University in St. Louis, is participating in the U.S. Department of State’s prestigious Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program.
CLS in the Press — July 17, 2023
UAB spring 2023 graduate to spend summer in India after being awarded prestigious Critical Language Scholarship
University of Alabama at Birminghaminside graduate, Arushi Kotru, has been selected for the United States Department of State’s Critical Language Scholarship Program.
CLS in the Press — July 14, 2023
UW Student Receives Critical Language Scholarship Award to Study Portuguese in Brazil
University of Wyoming senior Katie Johnson is a recent recipient of the Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Award. Johnson, of Casper, will live with a host family and study Portuguese at Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil June 21-Aug. 17.
CLS in the Press — June 15, 2023
Brigid Shanley
Brigid Shanley is an alumna of the 2022 CLS Swahili Program hosted by MS-Training Centre for Development Cooperation in Arusha, Tanzania. Brigid is a senior at California State University, Long Beach where she majors in Linguistics and minors in Anthropology. Brigid hopes to pursue a Ph.D. in Lingu…
Alumni Profile — June 06, 2023
East Tennessee State student spending part of the summer in Tanzania
Jessica Potter, a child psychology major and Honors scholar, is studying Swahili in the East African country from mid-June through early August.
CLS in the Press — June 05, 2023
CLS Alumni Spotlight: Lucy Minicozzi-Wheeland on Navigating Mental Health & Studying Abroad
Meet CLS alumna, expert on Eastern Europe and the Caucasus, and world traveler, Lucy Minicozzi-Wheeland! Lucy is not afraid to venture outside her comfort zone. She’s participated in three fellowships abroad—the first in Odesa, Ukraine for 7 months as a researcher with the Fulbright U.S. Student Pr…
CLS Program News — May 31, 2023