BSOS Congratulates Boren Scholarship and Fellowship Awardees
The College of Behavioral and Social Sciences congratulates its 2014–15 Boren Scholarship and Boren Fellowship winners. Of the 12 UMD undergraduate students who have received the Boren Scholarship, eight are earning degrees from BSOS, and 11 are affiliated with BSOS. And both of UMD’s Boren Fellowship winners are affiliated with the College.
The Boren Scholarship provides a unique education-abroad experience that has been shaping the future of undergraduate students across the nation for over 20 years. The esteemed grant is open to those students who are interested in learning a new language and studying abroad in an underrepresented country. For the third consecutive year, the University of Maryland is among the national leaders in Boren Scholarships.
The Boren Scholarship inspires and incentivizes international change agents to work towards the development of critical regions for purposes of globalization and national security. The scholarships are funded by the National Security Education Program (NSEP), which focuses on geographic areas, languages, and fields of study broadly deemed critical to U.S. national security. Recognizing that the scope of national security has expanded to include the challenges of global society, Boren Scholars focus on issues including sustainable development, environmental degradation, global disease and hunger, population shifts, and economic instability.
The Boren Fellowship provides up to $30,000 to U.S. graduate students to add an important international and language component to their graduate education through specialization in area study, language study, or increased language proficiency. Boren Fellowships support study and research in areas of the world that are critical to U.S. interests. Boren Fellowships are funded by NSEP.
2014-15 BSOS Boren Scholarship Awardees
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[[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"1083","attributes":{"alt":"Bailey","class":"media-image","height":"150","style":"width: 150px; height: 150px; float: left; margin: 5px;","width":"150"}}]]Margaret Bailey (award to study Arabic in Morocco) is a senior in the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures within the College of Arts and Humanities majoring in Arabic Studies and minoring in Russian Studies. Last summer, as a member of the Arabic Flagship Program, she studied Arabic in Meknes, Morocco. In summer 2012 she studied Arabic in Tangier, Morocco with a Critical Languages Scholarship. Bailey earned a citation in International Studies from BSOS in the College Park Scholars program. For the past two years she has been a member of the “Arabic Cluster” in Language House.
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[[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"1086","attributes":{"alt":"","class":"media-image","height":"150","style":"width: 150px; height: 150px; margin: 5px; float: left;","width":"150"}}]]Nadav Karasov (award to study Urdu in India) is a senior majoring in Economics and minoring in International Development and Conflict Management. Last summer, he studied Urdu in Lucknow, India with a Critical Languages Scholarship and continued his Urdu study through the FOLA program of the School of Languages Literatures, and Cultures. Currently, he is an intern with Namati in Washington, D.C., where he is researching legal empowerment among Urdu-speaking refugees in Bangladesh. Karasov is a member of the University Honors Program.
[[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"1087","attributes":{"alt":"","class":"media-image","height":"150","style":"width: 150px; height: 150px; margin: 5px; float: left;","width":"150"}}]]Patrick Niceforo (award to study Korean in South Korea) is a senior majoring in Government and Politics and minoring in Global Terrorism as well as Korean Studies. Last spring, he studied abroad at Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea. Niceforo is a participant in the Global Semester program through which is currently interning at the American Foreign Service Association’s Executive Office. Previously, he was a Special Projects Division Intern with the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Reponses to Terrorism. Niceforo earned a citation from BSOS’s CIVICUS Living and Learning Program.
[[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"1088","attributes":{"alt":"Patch","class":"media-image","height":"150","style":"width: 150px; height: 150px; margin: 5px; float: left;","width":"150"}}]]Lea Patch (award to study Korean in South Korea) is a senior majoring in Criminology and Criminal Justice and in Psychology. She is also minoring in Global Terrorism and Korean Studies. Last spring, Patch studied at Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea. Patch participated in the Homeland Security Policy concentration of the Federal Semester Program and is now interning with the Office of Policy and Strategy at the Department of Homeland Security. Previous internships include the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START)—which is housed in BSOS—and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. She earned a citation from BSOS’s CIVICUS Living and Learning Program.
[[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"1089","attributes":{"alt":"Robinson","class":"media-image","height":"150","style":"width: 150px; height: 150px; margin: 5px; float: left;","width":"150"}}]]Esther Robinson (award to study Chinese in China) is a senior majoring in Government and Politics and Chinese. Robinson was a participant in the Homeland Security Policy concentration of the Federal Semester Program and completed an internship with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. She also held internships with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. In August 2012, Robinson studied Chinese at National Central University in Taiwan. She is a member of the “Chinese Cluster” at Language House. Robinson is also a participant in the Honors Humanities program in the Honors College.
[[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"1090","attributes":{"alt":"","class":"media-image","height":"150","style":"width: 150px; height: 150px; margin: 5px; float: left;","width":"150"}}]]Kelsey Tremble (award to study French and Wolof in Senegal) is a senior majoring in Government and Politics and minoring in Global Terrorism Studies and in French Studies. Currently, Tremble is interning with the Naval Research Laboratory, Office of Adversarial Modeling and Exploitation. Previously she was a special projects intern with the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START), which is housed in BSOS. Tremble is a participant in the Honors Humanities program in the Honors College.
[[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"1113","attributes":{"alt":"","class":"media-image","height":"150","style":"width: 150px; height: 150px; margin: 5px; float: left;","width":"150"}}]]Amy Waterhouse (award to study Arabic in Morocco) is a senior in the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures within the College of Arts and Humanities, majoring in Arabic Studies and French Language and Literature, and minoring in Global Terrorism Studies within BSOS. She is a member of the Arabic Flagship Program. Last fall she was a project intern with the Naval Research Laboratory and last summer she was an open source intelligence intern with the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) within BSOS. In fall 2012 Waterhouse studied in France at the University of Nice. She participated in the living-learning program Beyond the Classroom and is a member of the University Honors Program.
2014–2015 BSOS Boren Fellowship Awardees
[[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"1092","attributes":{"alt":"","class":"media-image","height":"150","style":"width: 150px; height: 150px; margin: 5px; float: left;","width":"150"}}]]Michael Aposporos, B.A. (GVPT) ’11 (award to study Chinese in China) is a master’s student in the School of Public Policy specializing in International Security and Economic Policy and an alumnus of BSOS’s Department of Government and Politics. He plans to study Chinese at Tsinghua University in Beijing for an academic year and in summer 2015 he will intern with an NGO, such as the American Chamber of Commerce in Beijing. Currently, he is interning with the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs. As an undergraduate he studied for a semester at Sichuan University in Chengdu, China. He also earned a citation in International Studies from the College Park Scholars program. In summer 2011 he participated in the Princeton in Beijing intensive language program and then spent a year studying Chinese at Liaoning Normal University in Dalian.
Amanda Fogle-Donmoyer (award to study Zulu in South Africa) is a graduate assistant in BSOS’s Global Communities Living-Learning Program and also is a Ph.D. student in the College of Education. She is in the Department of Counseling, Higher Education, and Special Education’s International Education Policy program. She has been awarded the Boren Fellowship for intensive domestic study of Zulu through the African Languages Initiative program at the University of Florida and continued Zulu study at the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal (UKZN) in South Africa. She will also carry out research at UKZN’s School of Education. Additionally, she plans to volunteer with IkamvaYouth in Capetown, where she had previously been a development intern. For three years Fogle-Donmoyer worked as senior program assistant for the United States Institute of Peace, The Academy for Conflict Management and Peacebuilding. She is a returned Peace Corps Volunteer, having served as a TOEFL teacher in Benin, West Africa.
BSOS embraces these awardees’ dedication, courage and commitment to serving the global community. These outstanding scholars simultaneously recognize the importance of addressing global issues and improving the United States’ ability to effectively respond to them, seeking to Be the Solution to some of the world’s most challenging conflicts and sources of instability.
For more information the Boren Scholarship program, the Boren Fellowship program and other scholarship opportunities, visit www.scholarships.umd.edu.
Published on Thu, Apr 24, 2014 - 12:50PM