Columbia CLS awardees, clockwise from top: Allie Novak, Maximilian Belyantsev, Lloxci Lopez, Alisa Gulyansky, Kaitlyn Sullivan, Maza Reyes, Alexander Nagin, Henry 'Hank' Drucker, Liliana Bollinger (center)
A program of the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, the Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) seeks to expand the number of Americans studying and mastering foreign languages that are critical to national security and economic prosperity. The program offers intensive in-person language instruction and cultural enrichment designed to facilitate intensive and accelerated language acquisition. This year, Columbia is proud to have eight named recipients of the Critical Language Scholarship.
Congratulations to the following students, who were awarded finalist status in the CLS Scholarship!
Maximilian Belyantsev, CC'28 in Mandarin
Henry 'Hank' Drucker, CC'27 in Arabic
Marly Fisher, GS'27 in Arabic
Lloxci Lopez, CC'25 in Portuguese
Alexander Nagin, GS'26 in Russian
Kaitlyn Sullivan, CC'27 in Arabic
URF also congratulates Columbia graduate students Liliana Bollinger of GSAS and Allie Novak of SEAS, who are both awardees in Arabic!