The CLLC (Center for Languages, Literatures and Cultures) is pleased to announce six recipients of the NSEP Boren Undergraduate Scholarship for 2017-2018. Boren Scholarships provide up to $20,000 to U.S. undergraduate students and up to $24,000 to U.S. graduate 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 and Eastern Europe, Eurasia, Latin American and the Middle East. Boren Scholars study less commonly taught languages, including but not limited to Arabic, Chinese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Swahili.

Congratulations to the following NSEP Boren recipients for 2017-2018!  (from left to right above)

Christian Gray, Political Science, French; Mandarin, National Taiwan University
Caroline Carroll, World Economy and Business (under International Studies) and Japanese double major with minors in Business and Engineering; Japanese, Hokkaido University
Clayton Sharb, Political Science and Area Studies; Arabic; Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Courtney Johnson, Strategic Communications and History of Art with a minor in South Asian Studies; Hindi, South Asian Language Flagship Initiative, American Institute of Indian Studies
Turner Adornetto, Engineering and Social Sciences; African Flagship Languages Initiative, Swahili, Tanzania
Natalie Hettle, International Affairs, Arabic; Center for International Learning, Oman

Boren Scholarships and Fellowships are funded by the National Security Education Program (NSEP), which focuses on geographic areas, languages, and fields of study deemed critical to U.S. national security. NSEP draws on a broad definition of national security, recognizing that the scope of national security has expanded to include not only the traditional concerns of protecting and promoting American well-being, but also the challenges of global society, including sustainable development, environmental degradation, global disease and hunger, population growth and migration, and economic competitiveness.

For more information about Ohio State’s Boren Application, please contact Rebecca Bias at bias.3@osu.edu, or 614-292-4137.   Many thanks for the ongoing support of Elizabeth Angerman and Grace Johnson in the Office of International Affairs.