Sholarships meeting

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Please find below an announcement for the upcoming meeting for the critical languages scholarship.



From: Reardon, Lawrence
Sent: Monday, October 26, 2009 10:48 AM
To: 'cola.polt@lists.unh.edu'
Subject: Scholarships for critical languages meeting



Confirm: majors



Are any of you are interested in applying for a scholarship to learn a new foreign language, such as:



African languages (selected)
Albanian
Amharic
Arabic*
Armenian
Azerbaijani
Belarusian
Bengali
Bosnian
Bulgarian
Burmese
Cambodian
Cantonese
Croatian
Czech
Gan
Georgian
Hebrew
Hindi
Hungarian
Indonesian
Japanese
Javanese
Kanarese
Kazakh
Khmer
Korean
Kurdish
Kyrgyz
Lingala
Macedonian
Malay
Malayalam
Mandarin
Moldovan
Mongolian
Pashto
Persian**
Polish
Portuguese
Punjabi
Romanian
Russian
Serbian
Sinhala
Slovak
Slovenian
Swahili
Tagalog
Tajik
Tamil
Telegu
Thai
Turkmen
Turkish
Uighur
Ukrainian
Urdu
Uzbek
Vietnamese


The US government is providing such scholarships under the David L. Boren Scholarships for undergraduate students. The Political Science department already has two students who have received Boren Scholarships—one who went to Japan for a semester, and the other is currently spending a year in Cairo studying Arabic. For more general information, go to: http://www.borenawards.org/boren_scholarship



The upcoming competition will be for study abroad grants in summer and fall 2010 and spring 2011. Sheila McCurdy and I will be running an information session is scheduled for Thursday, October 29 at 12:30 in Hood House 226. The campus application deadline for the Boren Scholarship is December 15, 2009. We hope to see you there – and please spread the word.



If you can’t make this meeting, come to see me ASAP during my office hours (T 11.10-12.30 Hood House; R 11.10-12.30 Horton). Or you can email.



Best,



CReardon





Lawrence C. Reardon

Hood House Professor

Department of Political Science

University of New Hampshire

Durham, NH 03824-3586

USA

Tel. 603.862.1750

Fax. 603.862.0178

Email chris.reardon@unh.edu