A file variety of 11 UGA undergraduates have been chosen this spring
The College of Georgia ranks second within the nation as a 2024 top-performing establishment for Boren Scholarships after a file variety of 11 UGA undergraduates have been chosen as Boren Students this spring. UGA additionally ranks second for whole variety of Boren Awards in 2024, which is calculated by combining an establishment’s Boren Scholarships and Fellowships.
Six of UGA’s recipients are Boren Flagship Students in UGA’s Portuguese Flagship Program; two are Boren Flagship Students in UGA’s Russian Flagship Program; and 9 recipients are both majoring or minoring in worldwide affairs.
UGA has had 105 Boren Scholarship and Fellowship provides for the reason that program was established in 1991, with 63 within the final 10 years. This marks the fourth 12 months in a row that the college has been named a top-performing establishment for Boren Scholarships.
The six Boren Flagship Students in UGA’s Portuguese Flagship Program are, left to proper, Connor Mason, Emily Hinckley, Nicole Cortes, Dalma Arteaga Rosales, Davis Potts and Bridget Goodman. They’ll start courses in Brazil in early 2025. (Photograph by Stephanie Schupska)
Boren’s nationwide nominating panel chosen 102 Boren Fellows and 215 Boren Students in 2024. The award is designed so as to add vital worldwide and language parts to college students’ educations by giving them the chance to check abroad in world areas important to U.S. pursuits. Boren Award recipients decide to working within the federal authorities for at the least one 12 months after commencement in alternate for as much as $25,000 in funding. The nationwide initiative is run by the Institute of Worldwide Training on behalf of the Nationwide Safety Training Program.
Dalma Arteaga Rosales, middle, an undergraduate in UGA’s Portuguese Flagship Program, holds a Brazilian flag. Along with her are Portuguese Flagship college students Emily Hinckley, Nicole Cortes, Davis Potts and Bridget Goodman. (Photograph by Stephanie Schupska)
College students making use of for a Boren Award at UGA undergo a singular campus evaluation course of. It contains an interview with a panel of college members and directors from the Workplace of World Engagement and the College of Public and Worldwide Affairs, throughout which panelists and college students focus on easy methods to construction their purposes inside Boren’s nationwide safety focus.
This 12 months’s panel included Leah Carmichael, director of energetic studying at UGA; Andrew Owsiak, Josiah Meigs Distinguished Instructing Professor within the College of Public and Worldwide Affairs; and Colleen Larson, international training advisor within the Workplace of World Engagement.
“The interview offers instrumental steerage to our college students,” stated Elizabeth Hughes, Boren Awards campus consultant and pupil affairs skilled within the Morehead Honors Faculty. “I’m tremendously grateful to our panelists for sharing their experience and investing a lot in our college students’ success.”
The next six recipients have been awarded a Boren Scholarship to assist their participation in a capstone-year program to check Portuguese and full an internship in Brazil. The Language Flagship offers undergraduates with the chance to pursue professional-level language proficiency in one among seven important languages. UGA hosts Language Flagship packages in each Portuguese and Russian.
- Dalma Arteaga Rosales of Madrid, Spain, and Santa Cruz, Bolivia, is a third-year pupil majoring in worldwide affairs, provide chain and operations administration and Portuguese.
- Nicole Cortes of Locust Grove is a second-year Honors pupil majoring in worldwide affairs, minoring in Portuguese and pursuing a certificates in sustainability.
- Bridget Goodman of Decatur is a second-year Honors pupil majoring in journalism, comparative literature and Portuguese.
- Emily Hinckley of Alpharetta is a first-year pupil majoring in worldwide affairs and minoring in Portuguese and Latin American & Caribbean research.
- Connor Mason of Auburn is a third-year pupil majoring in organic engineering and minoring in Portuguese.
- Davis Potts of Watkinsville is a third-year Honors pupil majoring in worldwide affairs and Portuguese.
The next two recipients have been awarded a Boren Scholarship to assist their participation in a capstone-year program to check Russian and full an internship in Kazakhstan.
- Madi Fulton of Kennesaw is a fourth-year Honors pupil majoring in Russian and Spanish and minoring in worldwide affairs.
- Emily Medlock of Suwanee is a third-year pupil majoring in worldwide affairs and Russian.
The next three recipients have been awarded a Boren Scholarship to assist their language examine in quite a lot of nations.
- Alimata Bah of McDonough was awarded a Boren Scholarship to check Arabic in Jordan. Bah is a third-year Honors pupil majoring in worldwide affairs and political science and minoring in Arabic.
- MaryQuinn Mills of Gainesville was awarded a Boren Scholarship to check Mandarin in Taiwan. Mills is a fourth-year pupil majoring in worldwide affairs and Asian languages and literature, with a Chinese language emphasis, and minoring in TESOL, which is instructing English to audio system of different languages.
- Jocelyn “Yoshi” Castro of Gainesville was awarded a Boren Scholarship to check Korean in South Korea. Castro is a third-year pupil majoring in worldwide affairs and minoring in Korean.
UGA’s main scholarships workplace, housed within the Morehead Honors Faculty, works carefully with all college students throughout campus as they apply for nationwide, high-level scholarships. For extra data on making use of for a Boren Scholarship or Fellowship by way of UGA, contact Elizabeth Hughes at [email protected]. For extra data on the Boren Awards, go to https://www.borenawards.org/.
