Luther College announces that Audrey Fashimpaur, class of 2023, completed the Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Spark program – a competitive and intensive 8-week online course where Fashimpaur was immersed in Chinese language and culture to learn Mandarin.
Josh Phillips is a undergraduate student at Mississippi State University majoring in Economics, Political Science and Government. Josh participated in 2023 CLS Spark Arabic hosted by the Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language (TAFL) Center of the University of Alexandria in Egypt. Josh hop…
Meet Critical Language Scholarship Russian language partner, Mirlan Ulanov! Mirlan has been a language partner for CLS Russian students for the last two summers at partner institute American University of Central Asia (AUCA) in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. When asked why, Mirlan shared, “I want to int…
Two Middlebury students who were awarded Critical Language Scholarships (CLS) and will spend part of their summer overseas intensively studying languages in preparation for related careers.
Boston College undergraduates Isaiah Brown ’24 and Hunter Linton ’25 and 2023 graduate Agustin Tornabene are spending part of the summer broadening their international perspectives through prestigious fellowships from the United States Department of State.
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 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…
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.
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.