Study Abroad Awards
The Foreign Language Center announced three recipients of the National Security Education Program (NSEP) Boren Undergraduate Study Abroad Award for 2011-12. Boren Scholarships provide up to $20,000 to U.S. undergraduate students to study abroad in areas of the world that are critical to U.S. interests and underrepresented in study abroad, including Africa, Asia, Central & Eastern Europe, Eurasia, Latin American, and the Middle East.
Luella Teresa Albuquerque Canarsky, a double major in Korean and Portuguese with a minor in Linguistics, will study Korean at Yonsei University in South Korea. Alexandra Doyle, a major in Arabic Languages and a minor in Spanish Languages and Literatures, will study Arabic at the American University of Cairo. Jasmine Sims, a double major in Psychology and Chinese, will study at the Beijing Language and Culture University and also Fudan University in Shanghai.