A Program of the News and Stories
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2020 CLS Alumni Development Fund
As the CLS alumni community grows to over 6,800 members, we continue our work to remain a resource for your language-related endeavors. To this end, the CLS Program is pleased to invite program alumni from all years to apply for a 2020 Alumni Development Fund (ADF) grant. The Alumni Development Fu…
CLS Program News — December 20, 2019
Janet Purdy
“My CLS experience sent me in an entirely new direction of learning and research. I am now a scholar of East Africa and the Indian Ocean.” When Janet started to study art history, she was primarily focused on West and Central Africa. After learning that her university offered Swahili classes, she b…
Alumni Profile — December 13, 2019
Erik Hornberger
Erik Hornberger always wanted Japanese to be a part of his career, but as a busy graduate student in Electrical Engineering at the University of Kansas, there wasn't enough time to participate in semester study abroad programs. Fortunately, the CLS Program was short enough to fit Erik's academ…
Alumni Profile — December 10, 2019
Claremont McKenna Alum Named Schwarzman Scholar
Claremont McKenna College’s William Cullen ’19 has been awarded the prestigious Schwarzman Scholarship, a fully funded one-year master’s degree program at Tsinghua University in Beijing.
CLS in the Press — December 10, 2019
Browning native Curtis Longtime Sleeping honored for his Fulbright work in Korea
Curtis Longtime Sleeping, a Browning native and member of the Blackfeet Nation, recently was recognized in a ceremony at the University of North Dakota to honor UND students who’d won national scholarships or awards.
CLS in the Press — December 05, 2019
Amanda Barbour
Amanda Barbour participated in CLS Arabic program in Tunis, Tunisia in 2010 as an undergraduate student at the University at Buffalo. “[Participating on the CLS Program] influenced the trajectory of my study. I completed my undergraduate work shortly after my summer in CLS and eventually went on t…
Alumni Profile — December 04, 2019
Rena Wang
Rena participated in CLS Chinese in Changchun, China after graduating with her master’s in public health in 2018. She has had a close connection with China throughout her life as a second-generation immigrant and heritage speaker of Chinese. Previously, she and her sister would return to China freq…
Alumni Profile — November 26, 2019
The CLS Program at the Annual ACTFL Conference
The 2019 Annual Convention and World Languages Expo for the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages kicked off this week in Washington, D.C. and staff from the CLS Program were there to meet with our colleagues and alumni from across the United States, and all over the world. The even…
CLS Program News — November 22, 2019
Saumya Kini
Saumya Kini is an alumna of the first CLS Japanese Program in 2010 and is a current Fulbright fellow living in Okayama, Japan. She participated in the program as a junior at the University of Oregon, where she studied architecture and Japanese. "CLS was really instrumental to me for moving to the …
Alumni Profile — November 22, 2019