Rita Erickson and Joseph Longo from Michigan State University each received a US Department of State Critical Language Scholarship for this summer, joining over 500 students who qualified for the program.
Six University of Georgia students have received Critical Language Scholarships from the U.S. Department of State to extensively study languages abroad this summer, according to a UGA press release.
After a year abroad studying public health and international development in Kenya, Hanna Lafferty ’19 is spending her summer break immersed in the Swahili language in Arusha, Tanzania as a member of the U.S. Department of State’s competitive Critical Language Scholarship program.
Two Michigan State University students have been awarded a U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship to study critical needs languages this summer.
Kevin Schwartz ’18, from Cutchogue, New York, will spend two months this summer studying intensive Mandarin in Xi’an, China, living at Shaanxi Normal University.
Illinois Wesleyan University alum Boryana Borisova ’17 will pursue an extensive Russian language study after receiving both the U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Award and the U.S. Department of State 2018 National Security Education Program (NSEP) David L. Boren Fellowship.
The University of Kentucky Office of Nationally Competitive Awards has announced that modern and classical languages/Russian studies and political science freshman Anna Wagner has been awarded a Critical Language Scholarship to study Russian.
A Western Michigan University student from Paw Paw is in Hikone, Japan, studying Japanese thanks to a U.S. Department of State scholarship.
Three University of Notre Dame graduate students and one Law School student have been awarded U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarships (CLS) to study critical languages abroad this summer.
Maxwell has done so well in her return to school that she was awarded a Critical Language Scholarship (CLS). Run by the U.S. Department of State, the CLS program grows the number of Americans studying and mastering foreign languages critical to national security and economic prosperity.
