2010 Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program

From the US Department of State: Applications for the 2010 Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program for overseas intensive summer language institutes in thirteen critical need foreign languages available soon. The on-line application for CLS Program awards will be available November 9, 2009, and the deadline to apply will be December 18, 2009.

Critical Language Scholarships (CLS) provide group-based intensive language instruction and structured cultural enrichment experiences for seven to ten weeks. Students may apply for one language, and will be placed at institute sites based on language evaluations after selection. The 2010 CLS Program will include new programs in Indonesian and Japanese.

Levels available for each language are as follows:
*Arabic, Persian: Advanced beginning, intermediate or advanced level;
*Azerbaijani, Bangla/Bengali, Hindi, Indonesian, Korean, Punjabi, Turkish, or Urdu: Beginning, intermediate or advanced level;
*Chinese, Japanese or Russian: Intermediate or advanced level.

Students of diverse disciplines and majors are encouraged to apply.  While there is no service requirement attached to CLS Program awards, participants are expected to continue their language study beyond the scholarship period, and later apply their critical language skills in their future professional careers.

For more information on the CLS Program, visit www.CLScholarship.org.

Deadlines for Truman, St. Andrews Nomination

We’ve gotten through the Rhodes, Mitchell, Marshall, Fulbright so far…phew!  But the  I want to draw your attention to the Monday, November 2 (noon) deadline for applications for nomination for the Truman (juniors only) and St. Andrews (seniors only) Fellowships.  Check our website for more information about each fellowship and what materials we require for you to be considered for nomination.  Any questions, talk with me! (x3183, lgates@middlebury.edu)

New Graduate Fellowship from Dept. of Energy

Department of Energy
The Office of Science
Graduate Fellowship Program
http://www.scied.science.doe.gov/SCGF.html
The Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (SC) has established the DOE Office of Science Graduate Fellowship (DOE SCGF) program to provide support for outstanding students to pursue graduate degrees and research in areas of physics, biology, chemistry, mathematics, engineering, computational sciences and environmental sciences relevant to the Office of Science, and to encourage the development of the next generation scientific and technical talent in the U.S.
Fellows will receive a $35,000 yearly stipend for living expenses, $10, 500 per year for tuition and fees and a $5,000 research stipend supplement for research materials and travel expenses.  Fellows will be required to attend the annual DOE SCGF Research Conference to be held each summer at a DOE national laboratory.  Travel expenses and accommodations to the Conference will be provided by the DOE SCGF program.
THE APPLICATION DEADLINE IS NOVEMBER 30, 2009.
For more information about the program, eligibility, benefits and application visit http://www.scied.science.doe.gov/SCGF.html

What do you a do on a Fulbright grant?

Check out Caitlyn Olson’s (’09)  chronicle of her Fulbright year in Morocco: http://hereacousthereacous.blogspot.com/

From the blog:

Ahlan wa Sahlan, Welcome

Greetings all! It’s Caitlyn here, and, armed with not much more than that brand new liberal arts degree, beginning Arabic skills now two years rusty and a youthful zeal inclined to overlook any such limitations, I am currently spending fifteen months living and studying in Morocco. The initial six will be in the imperial city of Fez, where I’ll be burnishing my linguistic abilities at the Arabic Language Institute in Fez (ALIF). Then, in February, I’ll move locations (most likely to Rabat or Tetouan) and shift my focus to an independent research project having generally to do with relations between Spain and Morocco during the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s (see the first posting for details). I hope to use this blog to chronicle not only these academic endeavors but also — primarily — the ins and outs of daily life in Morocco.