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Congratulations to Daetan Huck, Boren Scholar

Jul 21, 2010

UW junior Daetan Huck was recently selected as a National Security Education Program (NSEP) David L. Boren Undergraduate Scholar to study Arabic in Egypt during the 2010-11 academic year. Huck is majoring in Near Eastern Languages and Civilization. The Boren Scholarship is a major national scholarship that provides U.S. undergraduates up to $20,000 to study abroad for an academic year in world regions critical to U.S. interests (including Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Eurasia, Latin American & the Caribbean, and the Middle East), and are intended to provide support to students who will pursue the study of languages and cultures currently underrepresented in study abroad and critical to U.S. national security.

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