Olivia Moffett is an alumna of the 2018 CLS Chinese program in Xi’an, China. She’s currently a fourth-year student at the University of Virginia where she majors in International Economics and Chinese Language & Literature and participates in student government. Olivia is an incoming Research Spec…
Alumni Profile — May 06, 2019
Holden Fitzgerald is an alumnus of the 2018 CLS Chinese program in Xi’an, China. He is a current student at University of Denver, where he’s in his first year of his master’s program in Global Finance, Trade, and Economic Integration. Love of China Sparked by Study Abroad I first studied abroad in …
Alumni Profile — May 06, 2019
Naimul Chowdhury is an alumnus of the 2018 CLS Chinese program in Xi’an, China. He’s currently in his first year of a Master of Data Science at the New College of Florida. He’s also a Chinese Language Teaching Assistant and has a bachelor’s degree in Pure Mathematics. Naimul hopes to apply his know…
Alumni Profile — May 06, 2019
Jason Chen is an alumnus of the 2018 CLS Chinese program in Xi’an, China. He’s currently in his third year of the joint Medicine and Master of Public Health program at the University of Utah and holds undergraduate degrees in Spanish and Biology. After graduating college, Jason studied Mandarin at …
Alumni Profile — May 06, 2019
Sarah Juarez is an alumna of the 2018 CLS Chinese program in Suzhou, China. She’s currently a junior at Texas A&M University, where she majors in Computer Science. Sarah plans to pursue a master’s degree in Computer Science, potentially in China. She wants to continue practicing and improving her C…
Alumni Profile — May 06, 2019
Katherine Schmidt is an alumna of the 2018 CLS Azerbaijani program in Baku, Azerbaijan. She’s currently an independent researcher based in Baku, where she uses her language skills to communicate with friends, colleagues, and in day-to-day conversations on the street. She enjoys martial arts, rock c…
Alumni Profile — May 06, 2019
Jasmine Kinkead is an alumna of the 2018 CLS Bangla program in Kolkata, India. Now a junior, Jasmine transferred from Treasure Valley Community College to the University of Idaho, where she studies International Relations with a focus on African and Asian Studies. She hopes to work with an NGO, usi…
Alumni Profile — May 06, 2019
Heba Haleem is an alumna of the 2018 CLS Arabic program in Meknes, Morocco. She has a bachelor’s degree in Anthropology from Brown University and is currently an M.D. candidate at Brown University’s Alpert Medical School, where she’s spearheading an Introduction to Medical Arabic pre-clinical cours…
Alumni Profile — May 06, 2019
Aasha Shaik is an alumna of the 2018 CLS Arabic program in Amman, Jordan. She is currently a junior at Rutgers University in the Honors College and women’s Douglass Residential College, and is majoring in Political Science and Middle Eastern Studies. She’s been spending the 2018-19 academic year st…
Alumni Profile — May 06, 2019
A 2017 Stony Brook graduate, civil engineering major Kennedy Ezumah, leveraged his Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) to carve out a burgeoning career within the construction business.
CLS in the Press — May 03, 2019
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