The East Asian Studies Center, Center for Latin American Studies and Center for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies have awarded $1.150 million in student support this year in the form of 50 Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship grants to Ohio State students spanning 16 graduate programs and 22 undergraduate majors. Funding for FLAS Fellowships comes from the U.S.
Janet Smith, assistant director of outreach for the East Asian Studies Center and Amanda Yusko, program manager for the international student team in the Office of International Affairs, are recipients of the 2024 Distinguished Staff Award, the highest honor bestowed upon staff at Ohio State.
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“My experience here has been full of many different emotions—from homesickness to the joy of friendship,” said a high school student named Diana about her experiences in the United States. Diana is from Kazakhstan and is an exchange student at Westerville Central High School. Diane and 12 of her classmates, hailing from a dozen different countries including Brazil, Haiti, Japan, Nepal and Ukraine and arriving in the United States for many different reasons, visited Ohio State on February 20 to share stories of their cultures and experiences.
Agnieszka Poczta-Wajda, a visiting Fulbright Slavic Award recipient from Poland’s Poznan University of Economics and Business, has joined the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures for spring semester 2024.
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Emma Pratt, assistant director of the Center for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies, is a recipient of a 2023 The Women's Place Critical Difference Grant. The grant is offered specifically to help facilitate professional development and career mobility for faculty, staff and students.
Mateo Zevallos is a second-year undergraduate student studying Biomedical Science. He was awarded a Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowship to study Portuguese during the summer of 2023.
Saori Wakita is a PhD student in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literature. She was awarded a FLAS fellowship to study Korean during the summer of 2023.
I studied Korean at Ewha Language Center, Ewha Womans University during the summer of 2023.
