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The Boren Scholarship in Action with Frederick (Rick) Cieri III (’17)

Frederick (Rick) Cieri received the opportunity of a lifetime to study for a year in São Paulo, Brazil with the Boren Scholarship. Rick has gone to Brazil to study Portuguese, which is deemed a “critical language”: by the Boren Scholarship since it is less commonly taught in the United States. Rick applied to the…

Hannah Butler (’19) Reports from Fulbright Scotland Summer Institute

SU’s first Fulbright Summer Institute participant has just finished her five-week cultural and academic adventure! Rising sophomore Hannah Butler arrived in Dundee, Scotland, in early July and is now returning to the U.S. after a busy few weeks of lessons, field trips, tours, and discussions. The Fulbright Summer Institutes offer several fully-funded programs around the UK for rising sophomores…

Amber Barrow (’17) Shares Her Experience with the Critical Language Scholarship

In the summer of 2015, neuroscience and biology major Amber Barrow boarded a plane to Dalian, China. Her first time in China, Amber took a pledge to speak only Mandarin Chinese for the summer program. Her journey to East Asia started two years earlier when she first heard about the Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) in…

2016 Boren Scholar Frederick Cieri III (’17)

Rick Cieri had already studied in Strasbourg and Madrid and mastered three foreign languages by his junior year at SU. Looking for a new challenge outside European politics, the dual international relations and modern foreign languages major picked up a pamphlet on the Boren Scholarship and applied. The Boren Scholarship, which funds up to a full year…