David L. Boren Awards for International Study

Four University of Pittsburgh Honors College students have received 2010 Boren Scholarships. The students and their countries of travel are Utsav Bansal, China; Heather Duschl, Japan; Michelle Sattazahn, China; and Gregory Withers, Tajikistan. Utsav Bansal, who is majoring in neuroscience with minors in chemistry and Spanish, will study Mandarin this summer in Beijing, China. Heather Duschl, a double major in computer engineer...
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Students at the University of Chicago were awarded a significant number of prestigious intrenational study awards, including 6 Boren Scholarships and 2 Boren Fellowships. Boren Scholarship Samuel Berkowitz plans to spend the year studying in China. Robert Biship, a Mathematics and Political Science Major, will spend the year studying Arabic in Egypt. Muhammed Khan plans to study in Pakistan. Barbra Kim, who is majoring in ...
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A Boren Scholar, Claire Balani, has received a Fulbright award to study in China.  Claire received a Boren Scholarship for the 2008-2009 academic year during which she studied in Kunming and Beijing.  She was profiled, along with Austin College's other Fulbright Recipients, in an article from the Herald Democrat .  Read the complete article.
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As part of the Boren Scholarship Convocation, Scholars had the opportunity to go to Capitol Hill and visit the offices of their senators and members of Congress.  As a result of that meeting, Vivian Ekey was able to meet Congressman C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-MD).  Vivian graduated from Franklin High School and is currently a double major in Political Science and Languages and Literature at the University of Maryland, B...
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Four students from Stanford University were selected to receive 2010 Boren Awards for International Study.  Elizabeth Harmon, who is majoring in international relations and Arabic, received a Boren Scholarship to study Arabic at the University of Damascus in Syria. Shane Morrison, a student in the School of Medicine, received a Boren Fellowship to study Albanian in Albania and Kosovo. Susan Garnett Russell, who is a docto...
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