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PHILADELPHIA – Six University of Pennsylvania students have been awarded U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarships for study this summer:
Colleen Daley, who will study Arabic in Oman.
Blake Harwood, who will study Arabic in Tunisia.
Bronwyn Koehl, who will study Russian in Russia.
Steven Lin, who will study Japanese in Japan.
Myra Siddiqui, who will study Korean in South Korea
Lan Ngo, who will study Chinese in China.
They are among approximately 575 U.S. undergraduate and graduate student scholarship recipients who will study Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bangla/Bengali, Chinese, Hindi, Korean, Indonesian, Japanese, Persian, Punjabi, Russian, Turkish or Urdu.
They students will spend seven to 10 weeks in intensive language institutes. CLS Program participants are expected to apply their critical language skills in their future professional careers.
More information about the CLS Program is available at http://www.clscholarship.org/.
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(From left) Kevin B. Mahoney, chief executive officer of the University of Pennsylvania Health System; Penn President J. Larry Jameson; Jonathan A. Epstein, dean of the Perelman School of Medicine (PSOM); and E. Michael Ostap, senior vice dean and chief scientific officer at PSOM, at the ribbon cutting at 3600 Civic Center Boulevard.
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