MENA Languages Recognizes Graduates and Award Winners
MENA Languages prepares for a send-off to 38 undergraduate and several graduate students, many of whom were recongized at the Year-End Celebration on June 4, 2020. Several dozen students, along with the MENA Languages Faculty and tutors, joined the Zoom Celebration for songs, tributes, and recognitions. The following are some of the students whose work was highlighted for the 2019-2020 academic year.
External Award Winners:
- Abigail R. Everding, Linguistics, was awarded the ARIT Summer Fellowship for Intensive Advanced Turkish Language Study.
- Dominic Owen Balestrieri-Fox, Political Science, was awarded the Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship.
Undergraduate Language Grant Award Winners:
- Thomas Abers-Lourenco, Arabic
- Brianna Bilter, Arabic
- Abigail R. Everding, Turkish
- Georgia Schafer, Turkish
MENA Languages Program Award Winners:
- Special Mention:
- Ernest Coppee, Arabic
- Shayan Ghodsi, Persian
- Charles Hummel, Arabic
- Elena Laski, Arabic
- First-Year Excellence:
- Jolie Boulos, Arabic
- Huma Manjra, Arabic
- Maya Waldman, Arabic
- Second-Year Excellence:
- Lauren Collins, Arabic
- Jackson Miller, Hebrew
- Georgia Schafer, Arabic
- Third- and Fourth-Year Excellence:
- Natalie Myren, Arabic
International Studies Program "Certificate of Distinction in Foreign Languages" Award Winners:
- Moses Lee, Arabic and German
- Carter Rothman, Arabic