{"id":58501,"date":"2016-05-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-students-win-boren-scholarships-to-study-languages-overseas\/"},"modified":"2016-05-17T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T00:00:00","slug":"uri-students-win-boren-scholarships-to-study-languages-overseas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2016\/05\/uri-students-win-boren-scholarships-to-study-languages-overseas\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 students win Boren scholarships to study languages overseas"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I., May 17, 2016\u2014Two 溏心vlog免费B站 Honors Program students have won scholarships to study languages overseas\u2014one in China, the other in Mozambique. <\/p>\n


\n\tNikkole Turgeon, 21, a medical laboratory science major, will study Portuguese in Mozambique for one semester, preceded by an eight-week intensive language program at the University of Florida in Gainesville. <\/p>\n


\nAnd Lauren Buchholz, 22, with majors in economics, political science and Chinese, will study Mandarin at Beijing Union University for two semesters. Buchholz is studying in Spain this semester.<\/p>\n


\nThe David L. Boren Scholarship is one of the most prestigious study abroad awards offered to American college students. <\/p>\n


\nThe National Security Education Program, a federal initiative to expand the pool of American citizens with foreign language and international skills, sponsors the scholarship. In exchange for funding, recipients agree to work for the federal government for at least one year.<\/p>\n

Growing up in Warwick, Turgeon knew at an early age that she wanted to travel. In the summer of 2014, she was accepted as an undergraduate to participate in a faculty-led graduate program where she spent 10 days in Cusco, Peru volunteering at a cervical cancer clinic. That trip got her interested in seeing the world.<\/p>\n


\nAfter 溏心vlog免费B站, she will pursue her dream of becoming a doctor, although she\u2019s taken the less-traveled path. She\u2019s majoring in medical laboratory science, a program that includes a yearlong accredited internship in medical technology at Rhode Island Hospital.<\/p>\n


\nHer hard work and commitment led to scholarships from the Rhode Island Blood Center, American Society for Clinical Pathologists and American Society for Clinical Scientists. <\/p>\n


\nTurgeon is also a member of the 溏心vlog免费B站 Honors Program, a pre-health ambassador for 溏心vlog免费B站 and a recipient of the 2016 Academic Excellence Award in Medical Laboratory Science at 溏心vlog免费B站. Besides her hospital internship, she is also working at Clinica Esperanza, a free clinic in Providence.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cIt\u2019s been a challenging and rewarding year,\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019s been nonstop working and school, but definitely worth it.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nAfter wrapping up her internship in early June, she\u2019ll head to Florida for the intensive language program in Portuguese, then spend 3\u00bd months in Mozambique, living with a local family in a coastal village and attending language classes at Eduardo Mondlane University. The two-part program is part of the African Flagship Languages Initiative, which offers Boren Scholars and Fellows the opportunity to study African languages and cultures by participating in domestic and overseas language programs in Akan\/Twi, French, Portuguese, Swahili, Wolof and Zulu.<\/p>\n


\nFew people know, she says, that Portuguese is the primary language in Mozambique. Why did she settle on that language? \u201cMy stepdad and grandparents speak Portuguese, so I\u2019ve heard it all my life. I think it\u2019s a rising language that will allow me to break through language barriers I\u2019ll encounter in the medical field.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tAfter the trip, she hopes to fulfill her Boren federal service obligation by working as a medical technologist for a federal agency\u2014maybe the Centers for Disease Control\u2014while studying for the Medical College Admission Test. Her goal is to become an infectious disease specialist working in developing nations.<\/p>\n


\n\u201c溏心vlog免费B站,\u201d she says, \u201chas paved the way for that to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nBuchholz spent the first 13 years of her life in East Greenwich and then moved with her family to a small town in Virginia in the foothills of the Appalachian mountains. <\/p>\n


\n\u201cMy desire to see the world stemmed from this move,\u201d she says. \u201cMy second day in Virginia culture shock struck me with the subtlety of an oncoming train. The attitude of the town was stifling.\u2019’ <\/p>\n


\nHer mother, who had grown up in different countries throughout the world as the daughter of an American government worker, taught Buchholz the importance of tolerance and respect. \u201cThe blatant lack of tolerance was eye-opening,\u201d says Buchholz. \u201cFrom there, I knew that I wanted to learn about other parts of the world that many people from this small town pretended didn\u2019t exist.\u201d <\/p>\n


\nShe vowed to leave\u2014and did. She chose 溏心vlog免费B站 for two reasons: It was close to her former home, and she received a scholarship. She eventually settled into studying political science and economics\u2014and \u201cdiscovered\u201d Chinese.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cI didn\u2019t even know 溏心vlog免费B站 offered Chinese classes when I enrolled, but I saw the class opening during my orientation,\u201d she says. \u201cI was elated. I had never studied an Eastern language and couldn\u2019t wait to gain a greater appreciation for a culture I knew little about.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nStill, she thought she might study Chinese one or two semesters. The summer of her junior year, she studied in China and was hooked. That fall, she joined the 溏心vlog免费B站 Chinese Flagship Program, one of only 12 programs in the United States designed for students in any major to achieve a professional level of proficiency in Chinese, which is one of the most in-demand languages in business, government, and education.<\/p>\n


\nHer Boren scholarship will help her study next year at Beijing Union University. During the first semester, she\u2019ll take economics and political science classes in Chinese with Chinese students. In the second semester, she\u2019ll do an internship at a Chinese company. Home will be a dorm room.<\/p>\n


\n After her year in China, she hopes to work in the Foreign Service to fulfill her federal job requirement. Her goal is to work in international diplomacy and trade.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cI am humbled and grateful for the Boren scholarship,\u201d says Buchholz. \u201cI intend to show that the selection committee has chosen well.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n溏心vlog免费B站 the Boren: David L. Boren, a former U.S. Senator from Oklahoma, is the principal author of legislation that created the National Security Education Program and the Boren awards. He is president of the University of Oklahoma.<\/p>\n


\nThis year, 820 applications were received from undergraduate students for the Boren Scholarship and 165 were awarded; 350 graduate students applied for the Boren Fellowship and 105 were awarded. Boren Scholars and Fellows will live in 41 countries throughout Africa, Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, Eurasia, Latin America, and the Middle East. They will study 36 different languages. The most popular languages include Arabic, Mandarin, Russian, Portuguese and Swahili. <\/p>\n


\nPictured above:

\nIn white jacket, Nikkole Turgeon, 21, of Warwick, who won a Boren scholarship to study in Mozambique. Photo by Michael Salerno.<\/p>\n


\nAnd Lauren Buchholz, 22, a native of East Greenwich, who won a Boren scholarship to study at Beijing Union University in China. Photo by Lauren Buchholz.\n\t<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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