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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
Serah Njoroge, ’24, won a Critical Language Scholarship from the U.S. Department of State. With the scholarship, she will spend eight weeks studying Swahili and learning Tanzanian culture in Tanzania during the summer of 2023.
CLS in the Press — May 30, 2023
Meet 2022 Japanese alumna and 2023 Alumni Ambassador, Janelle Mateo! Janelle’s connection to Japanese language and culture stems from her childhood growing up in Hawai’i. Being raised in a multi-cultural community and surrounded by the spirit of Aloha shaped Janelle’s interests in deepening both he…
CLS Program News — May 26, 2023
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