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RIT students have prolific year for securing prestigious international fellowships and scholarships

Sarah Sabal, a second-year applied modern language and culture student concentrating in Chinese at the Rochester Institute of Technology National Technical Institute for the Deaf, secured a Critical Language Scholarship and a Boren Awards Scholarship, which will allow her to spend a year intensively studying the Chinese language at National Cheng Kung University in Tainan, Taiwan.

CLS in the Press — May 21, 2021


Aarzu Maknojia

Reflecting on the ways in which her South Asian heritage intersected with her experience on the CLS Program, Aarzu Maknojia (Urdu 2018) said, “Learning Urdu in Lucknow as a heritage speaker was a challenging experience. There was a constant hum of being ‘too Indian’ to enjoy the benefits of an Amer…

Alumni Profile — May 20, 2021


A Taste of China

When her Critical Language Scholarship to China went virtual because of COVID, Maria Kisker (Chinese 2020) got a six-week sampler of the country and its language through her computer screen.

CLS in the Press — May 11, 2021


Olivia Truesdale

Olivia Truesdale is an alumna of the 2020 CLS Korean virtual institute hosted by Chonnam National University in Gwangju, South Korea. She is a senior foreign languages major at Scripps College, studying Korean and Spanish and a Political and Security Affairs Intern at the National Bureau of Asian R…

Alumni Profile — May 10, 2021


Patrick Thompson

Patrick Thompson is an alumnus of the 2020 CLS Chinese virtual institute hosted by Dalian Institute of Technology in Dalian, China. He is currently a junior at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he studies electrical engineering. Getting to Know Patrick I’ve spent most of my life in…

Alumni Profile — May 10, 2021


Clara Sherwood

Clara Sherwood is an alumna of the 2020 CLS Arabic virtual institute hosted by Arab American Lanugage Institute in Meknes, Morocco. She’s a junior at Washington & Jefferson College majoring in Spanish, international relations, and a thematic major titled Music & Conflict Resolution. Getting to Kno…

Alumni Profile — May 10, 2021