Meet CLS alumna Eve Rinauro! Eve is an alumna of the 2018 CLS Persian program in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. Eve’s desire to connect with others through language has been a compass leading her around the world from Morocco, Israel, Egypt and Jordan to London and Paris. Eve graduated with …
CLS Program News — March 31, 2022
Two Connecticut College students are gearing up for a summer of intensive language study. Julia Graham ’22 and Jordan Westlake ’22 have each received a Critical Language Scholarship from the United States Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, for 10 weeks of study in an intensive language program.
CLS in the Press — March 30, 2022
Bridget Seghers is an alumna of the 2021 CLS Swahili Program hosted virtually by the MS Training Center for Cooperative Development (MS-TCDC) in Arusha, Tanzania. Bridget is a sophomore Animal Sciences major and Linguistics minor at Louisiana State University. After graduating, she plans to combine…
Alumni Profile — March 26, 2022
Isabel Miramontes participated in the CLS Arabic 2021 Program hosted virtually by the Arab American Language Institute in Morocco (AALIM) in Meknes, Morocco. Isabel served as a member of the U.S. Navy and graduated with a Masters in Intercultural and International Communication from American Univer…
Alumni Profile — March 26, 2022
Three WKU students have been awarded Critical Language Scholarships for summer 2022.
CLS in the Press — March 25, 2022
University of Iowa international studies (international communications and Islamic & Middle Eastern studies) and French student Lauren Philips of Council Bluffs, Iowa, has been awarded a 2022 U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) to study Persian.
CLS in the Press — March 25, 2022
Graduating senior Angelina Coronado, who’s been admitted to PhD programs at Johns Hopkins, New York University and Columbia University, is headed to Brazil in June after receiving her second Critical Language Scholarship (CLS).
CLS in the Press — March 25, 2022
University of Iowa biochemistry student Grant Welk of Ames, Iowa, has been awarded a 2022 U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) to study in India this summer for an intensive Hindi language program.
CLS in the Press — March 24, 2022
Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduate student Nitya Rayapati of Austin, Texas, has been awarded a 2022 U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) to study in Lucknow, India, this summer for an intensive Urdu language program.
CLS in the Press — March 24, 2022
It’s a long way from a small Colorado mountain town to Ankara, Turkey, but Samuel Frykholm ’24 is confident about that journey. The political science major will spend summer 2022 studying the Turkish language through the Critical Languages Scholarship, which will fully fund his time there.
CLS in the Press — March 24, 2022
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