The Center for Latin American Studies, the Center for Slavic and East European Studies, the East Asian Studies Center and the Middle East Studies Center are accepting applications for fellowships under the U.S. Department of Education's Title VI Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship program. Fellowships are available in summer 2013 and academic year 2013-2014, and applications for both are due Friday, February 1, 2013.

Fellowships are available for Ohio State graduate and professional students, as well as select undergraduate students, pursuing a course of study that requires advanced foreign language and area studies training (though eligibility requirements vary from center to center). Eligible languages include Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Georgian, (Modern) Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Quechua, Romanian, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Tibetan, Turkish, Uzbek and Yiddish.

Applicants must exhibit a commitment to studying a FLAS-eligible language, and its area of the world; hold U.S. citizenship or permanent residency; and be enrolled full-time at Ohio State or accepted to be enrolled full time. Academic year fellowships require students to take both language courses and courses pertinent to related world areas, while summer fellowships feature an intensive language program.

For more information, please visit the Center for Latin American Studies, the Center for Slavic and East European Studies, the East Asian Studies Center and the Middle East Studies Center.