David L. Boren Awards for International Study

A Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs subcommittee is scheduled to meet Thursday to explore deficiencies in federal foreign language capabilities and ways to improve them, according to the office of the subcommittee chairman, Senator Daniel Akaka (D-Hawaii). Click here to read more about the subcommittee and the reports that prompted this hearing.  
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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, Barbra Kim was able to meet Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-34) and was featured on Congresswoman Roybal-Allard's website.  Barbra, who is from Los Angeles, is a double major in Political Science and Languages and Literature...
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The U.S. Department of State has named Philip Lyon as State Alumni member of the month. As a graduate student in 2004 at the University of Maryland - College Park, Philip received a Boren Fellowship to study in Croatia.  He is also an alumnus of the U.S. Student Fulbright Program and currently serves as the co-director of the Boren Forum, an alumni organization for recipients of awards from the National Security Education Program...
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Caitlin Stull, a senior at Florida State University (FSU), has received a Boren Scholarship to study in Istanbul.  Caitlin is a double major in international affairs and English who plans to pursue a career in the U.S. Foreign Service. Caitlin was recently profiled in an article along with two FSU students who are receiving Critical Language Scholarships. Read the complete article.  
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Two students from the University of Illinois, Brett Cox and Ryan Rogowski, have been selected to receive Boren Scholarships this year. Brett is a political science major who plans to use the Boren Scholarship to study Farsi in Tajikistan during the summer and fall. Ryan, who is pursuing a dual degree in electrical engineering and Spanish, will be studying at Beijing University this upcoming year. Brett and Ryan were recently prof...
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