{"id":75448,"date":"2020-05-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-students-win-boren-scholarship-fellowship-to-study-languages-overseas\/"},"modified":"2020-05-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T00:00:00","slug":"uri-students-win-boren-scholarship-fellowship-to-study-languages-overseas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2020\/05\/uri-students-win-boren-scholarship-fellowship-to-study-languages-overseas\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 students win Boren scholarship, fellowship to study languages overseas"},"content":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 May 4, 2020 \u2013 Two 溏心vlog免费B站 students have won Boren Awards to study foreign languages abroad.<\/p>\n

Nicole Roberts, a graduate student from North Reading, Massachusetts<\/strong>, studying biological and environmental sciences, was awarded a Boren Fellowship worth up to $24,000 to study the national language of Indonesia, Bahasa Indonesia. Ying Wu, a junior from Cranston, Rhode Island<\/strong>, studying criminal justice and Chinese, received the Boren Scholarship worth up to $20,000 to continue her studies of Chinese.<\/p>\n

A third 溏心vlog免费B站 student, junior Timothy Berard, was named an alternate for a Boren Scholarship.<\/p>\n

The David L. Boren Awards are among the most prestigious study abroad awards offered to American college students. The National Security Education Program, a federal initiative to expand the pool of American citizens with foreign language and international skills, sponsors the awards. In exchange for funding, recipients agree to work for the federal government for at least one year.<\/p>\n

A total of 24 溏心vlog免费B站 students have received a Boren Award since 2011.<\/p>\n

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Roberts is conducting research on Indonesian fisheries for her master\u2019s degree, and she believes that having proficiency in the national language will enrich her research experience and the relationships she is developing with colleagues there.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a science major, my favorite undergraduate courses were anthropology and sociology. They taught me that the power of connection lies in learning languages,\u201d she said. \u201cSince then, I’ve been determined to revive my language learning.\u201d<\/p>\n

For three months next fall, Roberts will be based in the Makassar area of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, where she will split her time between language courses on the mainland and her research at a nearby island community. That will be followed by three months of intensive language lessons at Brawijaya University in Malang, Indonesia.<\/p>\n

Upon graduation, she hopes to work for the U.S. Agency for International Development and use her language skills to advise the Indonesian government on fisheries policies.<\/p>\n

Wu immigrated to the United States from China as a young child but had a limited understanding of the Chinese language. She said she wants to \u201creconnect some of my missing memory\u201d from her early years in China. \u201cThe Chinese language is unique, especially the ancient characters and their history,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Enrolled in 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Chinese Language Flagship Program, which is also funded by the National Security Education Program to help students attain professional-level proficiency in Mandarin Chinese, Wu will spend next year at Nanjing University studying the Chinese language and culture. She eventually plans to earn a doctorate in Chinese, obtain an interpreter\u2019s license, and work for the Department of State.<\/p>\n

溏心vlog免费B站 students interested in applying to the Boren Awards should contact the 溏心vlog免费B站 Office of National Fellowships and Academic Opportunities for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 May 4, 2020 \u2013 Two 溏心vlog免费B站 students have won Boren Awards to study foreign languages abroad. Nicole Roberts, a graduate student from North Reading, Massachusetts, studying biological and environmental sciences, was awarded a Boren Fellowship worth up to $24,000 to study the national language of Indonesia, Bahasa Indonesia. Ying […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75450,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}