3 University of Kentucky students win Critical Language Scholarship

Critical Language Scholarship offers opportunities for American college and university students to study languages and cultures essential to America's engagement with the world.

University of Kentucky: Three students have been selected as award winners of a Critical Language Scholarship (CLS). The program offers opportunities for American college and university students to study cultures and languages essential to America's engagement with the world.

Following are the three students selected:

• Ellen Williams, an agricultural and medical biotechnology major and Lewis Honors College member from Blaine, Kentucky, will study Bahasa Indonesia at Universitas Negeri Malang in Malang, Indonesia.
• Shria Holla, a 2024 mathematical economics and Lewis Honors College graduate, Chellgren Fellow and Gaines Fellow from Richmond, Kentucky, will study Hindi at the American Institute of Indian Studies in Jaipur, India;
• Anna Stockstill, a political science and environmental and sustainability studies major and Chellgren Fellow from Milton, Georgia, will study Mandarin Chinese at National Cheng Kung University in Tainan, Taiwan;

Moreover, a sociology, psychology, and modern and classical languages, literature and cultures graduate - Licia Henneberg was named an alternate to study Arabic.

Each summer, the UG and PG students of US universities across the country spend eight to 10 weeks learning one of 13 languages at an intensive study abroad institute. The participants are expected to continue their language study beyond the scholarship period and also apply their language skills in their careers.

University of Kentucky gets engineering lab designed to advance US manufacturing

Recently, the university celebrated the opening of the Next Generation Additive Manufacturing Research Laboratory (NextGen AMRL), the newest addition to the Institute for Sustainable Manufacturing (ISM).

Under the three-way partnership, the project of the University of Kentucky named “Next Generation Materials and Processing Technologies” (NextGen MatProTech), is receiving approximately $24.5 million from the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD).

“As an institution driven by discovery and innovation, we are dedicated to advancing our community and the world. Through this partnership, we can harness our top talents to turn groundbreaking research into real-world solutions — achieving far more collectively than we ever could alone. As Kentucky’s institution, we are stronger and more effective when we collaborate in meaningful ways. We are deeply thankful for members of our Congress who continue their steadfast support, which ensures we advance Kentucky and fulfil our promise," said UK President Eli Capilouto.

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