Sadaf Sofia Latif, a social work major at Lehman College, has received both a Boren Award and a Critical Language scholarship. Latif is the second student to receive either award, according to Lehman, but the first to receive both.
CLS in the Press — July 13, 2021
received a scholarship from the U.S. State Department to learn Azerbaijani, a Turkic language spoken in southwestern Asia, primarily in Azerbaijan and northwestern Iran. If it wasn’t for the pandemic, she would have gone to Turkey to study, but is doing the sessions online instead.
CLS in the Press — July 13, 2021
Penn State graduate student Matthew Douthitt has earned a Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) to study Chinese during summer 2021.
CLS in the Press — July 13, 2021
A recent DePauw graduate who soon will be pursuing a master’s degree in geoscience is adding the Swahili language to his repertoire, thanks to a Critical Language Scholarship awarded him by the U.S. State Department.
CLS in the Press — July 07, 2021
Emily Boyle, an undergraduate Biology major and Chinese minor at Montclair State has been awarded a U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship to study Chinese during the summer of 2021. Boyle is one of the nearly 700 students from the U.S. to receive this highly competitive award and the second Montclair State student since 2015.
CLS in the Press — July 07, 2021
Spencer Hazeslip, a biochemistry and Spanish major, has been awarded a Critical Language Scholarship to study critical languages during summer 2021. Hazeslip joins three other U of A students who are also part of the Critical Language Scholarship Program.
CLS in the Press — July 06, 2021
CLS alumna Marina Bolotnikova (Hindi 2014) profiles bhangra dancer Manpreet Tour for the New York Times.
CLS in the Press — July 06, 2021
Devon Renfroe, a recent graduate with a master's degree in applied second language acquisition from the Department of Modern Languages in the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences, has been selected for the U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) to study Korean.
CLS in the Press — July 06, 2021
A Kalamazoo College representative is enhancing his skills in Chinese this summer through a U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship (CLS). Daniel Mota-Villegas ’21 is among about 700 scholars currently in the CLS program, which actively recruits in regions that have been historically under-represented in international education.
CLS in the Press — June 30, 2021
Seana Epley, GSAS ’21, won the Critical Language Scholarship in back-to-back years in 2020 and 2021 to study and learn Swahili, initially in Tanzania, but now virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
CLS in the Press — June 29, 2021
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