A University of Mississippi student, who is looking to learn about Swahili culture and find common ground between Swahili and Chinese, has won a Critical Language Scholarship to study Swahili in Tanzania.
CLS in the Press — June 03, 2019
Mario Altamirano, Jr. (Criminal Justice) earned a scholarship to the Critical Language Scholarship Program.
CLS in the Press — June 03, 2019
University of Illinois at Chicago sophomore Luana Davila of Joliet has been awarded a U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship to study Arabic in Morocco this summer.
CLS in the Press — June 03, 2019
Spurred by a love of the environment and a call to social justice, Tims will leave for Kolkata, where he will dive into his second eight-week, intensive study of the Bangla language at the American Institute of Indian Studies through a fully funded Critical Language Scholarship from the U.S. Department of State.
CLS in the Press — June 03, 2019
The University of Idaho Distinguished Scholarships Program, along with the College of Letters, Arts and Social Sciences, is pleased to announce that Mikayla Sievers, an English graduate student, has been selected to receive a 2019 U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship to study Panjabi in India. Read more.
CLS in the Press — June 03, 2019
Anika Kabani (Arabic 2016), a 2018 ADF recipient, worked with a local language cooperative to host Arabic classes at Sanctuary for Families, the non-profit organization where she works in New York City, NY. The Arabic classes took place weekly on Thursdays from January 31, 2019 to March 14,…
Alumni Projects — June 01, 2019
Clara Haizlett (Arabic 2017), a 2018 ADF recipient, utilized her Alumni Development Fund grant to begin a podcasting project to challenge common stereotypes of the Arab world. The Sandstone Podcast was geared toward an audience in her home state of West Virginia and aimed to provide an accessib…
Alumni Projects — June 01, 2019
Pooja Tilvawala (Hindi 2016), 2018 ADF recipient, hosted a 10-class lecture series on introductory Hindi for students at American University, which does not offer courses in Hindi. The series was supported by the Center for Language Exploration, Acquisition, and Research at AU and co-taught by Pooj…
Alumni Projects — June 01, 2019
Wendy Gong (Chinese 2018), Taina Orellana (Chinese 2018), and Nicole Rojas (Chinese 2017), 2018 ADF recipients, organized an event at the Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) in New York City with the aim of educating the public on resources for Asian Americans. The goals were to have a dialogue and…
Alumni Projects — June 01, 2019
CLS Alumnus Isaiah Weaver is among the graduates highlighted for this year's Morgan State University Commencement.
CLS in the Press — May 20, 2019
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