Kirk Preston participated in the 2023 CLS Japanese Program hosted by Okayama University in Okayama, Japan. Kirk graduated from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology with a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering and International Studies. He currently works at Deloitte as a Risk & Financial Advis…
Alumni Profile — September 30, 2024
Maria Guadalupe (Lupita) Partida participated in the 2023 CLS Korean Program hosted by Chonnam National University in Gwangju, South Korea. Lupita is a third-year graduate student at the University of Texas at Austin pursuing master's degrees in Global Policy Studies and Information Studies. S…
Alumni Profile — September 30, 2024
Mileyka M. Rodríguez Figueroa participated in the 2023 CLS Korean Program hosted by Chonnam National University in Gwangju, South Korea. Mileyka studies Industrial Design at Universidad Ana G. Mendez in Gurabo, Puerto Rico. She stays connected with Korean culture by volunteering at K-pop conc…
Alumni Profile — September 30, 2024
Eleanor (Ellie) McCutchen participated in the 2023 CLS Chinese Program hosted by Tamkang University in New Taipei City, Taiwan 2023. Ellie is a recent graduate from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where she majored in Political Science, Economics, and Sociology and minored in Ch…
Alumni Profile — September 30, 2024
Abigail Gillespie participated in the 2023 CLS Swahili Program hosted by MSTCDC in Arusha, Tanzania. Abigail is a graduate of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a Bachelor of Art in Biology and English and Comparative Literature with a minor in African, African American, and Diaspora …
Alumni Profile — September 30, 2024
Sara Ahlich participated in the 2022 CLS Spark for Russian hosted by American Councils for International Education in Tbilisi, Georgia and the 2023 CLS Russian Program hosted by the American University of Central Asia in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Sara is a senior at University of California, Berkely whe…
Alumni Profile — September 30, 2024
Tianna Burke participated in the 2023 CLS Portuguese Program hosted by Pontifical Catholic University in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Tianna is currently pursuing a PhD in mathematics at Purdue University. Tianna’s professional goal is to become a math professor and conduct research on the spread of inf…
Alumni Profile — September 30, 2024
Ryan Vogt participated in the 2023 CLS Persian Program hosted by American Councils Dushanbe Language Center in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. He has a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Physics from the University of Minnesota and a PhD in Applied Mathematics from the University of Washington. He i…
Alumni Profile — September 30, 2024
The CLS Program is pleased to announce another cycle of CLS Refresh, a funded language learning opportunity for CLS alumni. To support alumni in their continued commitment to critical languages, one-on-one virtual language instruction will be offered between October 2024 – March 2025 at no cos…
CLS Program News — September 05, 2024
Political science undergrad Cooper Baldwin wins prestigious U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship to learn ‘one of the most critical languages for future United States policy’
CLS in the Press — September 05, 2024
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