Honors Students Awarded Five Critical Language Scholarships
The Critical Language Scholarships for Intensive Summer Institutes (CLS) Program provides fully-funded seven to ten week group-based intensive language instruction and extensive cultural enrichment experiences held overseas at the beginning, intermediate and advanced levels for U.S. citizen undergraduate, Master’s and Ph.D. students. Languages supported include: Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bangla/Bengali, Chinese, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Punjabi, Russian, Turkish, and Urdu.
In 2010, approximately 5,300 applicants from universities across the country applied for 525 Critical Language Scholarships for Intensive Summer Institutes scholarships. From this highly competitive pool, 5 UW Honors Students were selected to participate:
Lisa Bergstrom, Advanced Russian
Matthew Gillman, Intermediate Turkish
Byron Gray, Intermediate Hindi
Ruben Shimonov, Advanced Beginning Arabic
Rachael Stovall, Intermediate Arabic