David L. Boren Awards for International Study

Four students from Ohio State University (OSU), Sofia Bachman, Zoe Maani, Cory Sabet, and Brian Yeh, were selected to receive 2012 Boren Scholarships.  Sofia, who is majoring in Spanish and Russian, plans to study in Russia. Zoe,  who is majoring in Arabic Languages and Literatures and African-American and African Studies, will study Arabic in Jordan. Cory, an International Relations and Chinese Languages and Literatures major...
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Two students from Indiana University in Bloomington (IUB), Kirsten Douglass and Timothy Hoffelder, have been awarded 2012 Boren Scholarships. Kirsten, an International Studies and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures major, will study in Amman, Jordan. Timothy, who is majoring in Linguistics and French, will spend the academic year in Tanzania with the Swahili Language Flagship program. IUB recently published an article about their...
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Chelsea Hodgkins, a student at West Virginia University (WVU) majoring in international studies and geography, has been awarded a 2012 Boren Scholarship.  Chelsea has already studied abroad in Malawi and, last April, travelled to Ghana as part of an initiative to install a water filtration system. Chelsea was recently profiled by WBOY 12 News .  Read the article and watch the video. As the ninth Boren Scholar from WVU, she...
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Matthew Becker, a Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science at the University of Mississippi, has received a Boren Fellowship to study in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Matthew earned his M.S. from Florida State University and was recently profiled by the Theta Chi Fraternity.  View the complete article.
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Eight students from the University of Maryland (UMD) College of Arts and Humanities (ARHU) have been offered 2012 Boren Scholarships and Fellowships. Two graduate students from ARHU, Daniel Blake and Evan Jones, were offered Boren Fellowships.  In total, five graduate students from Maryland were offered awards. Eight students from UMD were offered Boren Scholarships and six of them, Rushain Abbasi, Zane Buckey, Taylor Osborne,...
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