An exciting new project, Multilingualism and Education in Wisconsin, features over 100 podcast interviews with students, educators, and community members throughout Wisconsin, including Russianists from around the UW-Madison campus and the wider community. The collection …
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Opportunity: FLAS Fellowship Applications Opening
FLAS applications for Summer 2022 and the 2022-2023 academic year are opening this week! For more information about FLAS, attend one of UW-Madison’s in-person or online information sessions. More information can be found here.
Opportunity: Lead a Session on World Language Day
World Languages Day is a UW-Madison outreach program to introduce Wisconsin high school students to diverse languages and cultures. The program was launched 20 years ago by the College of Letters & Science to connect …
Critical Language Scholarship – funded language study abroad opportunity, Summer 2022
The Critical Language Scholarship Program is a fully-funded study abroad program sponsored by the U.S. Department of State that provides intensive overseas language and cultural immersion. It is open to U.S. students enrolled in all degree programs at …
Grants—new and renewed—bolster CREECA’s language learning programs for summer 2022
The Pushkin Summer Institute (PSI) has been awarded a $150,000 grant from the U.S. Russia Foundation (USRF) to support its intensive, residential program for summer 2022 that will welcome its first in-person cohort since 2019. …
Project GO Summer 2022 Application is Now Open
Pandemic or not, training opportunities are available now that will make you a better officer in the future. Consider studying a language the Department of Defense (DoD) considers critical next summer with Project GO @ UW-Madison. Language …
ALTA Emerging Translator Mentorship Program
The ALTA Emerging Translator Mentorship Program is designed to establish and facilitate a close working relationship between an experienced translator and an emerging translator on a project selected by the emerging translator. The emerging translator is …
Undergraduate FLAS competition for AY 2021-22, reopened
The Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia has opened a supplemental Academic Year 2021-2022 Foreign Language & Area Studies (FLAS) competition for University of Wisconsin-Madison undergraduate students. Eligible applicants must be U.S. citizens …
Fulbright US Student Program Information Session (7/6, 6pm CDT)
The application for the 2022-2023 Fulbright US Student Program (FUSP) competition is ongoing and the IRIS Awards office is offering one last online information and Q&A session for students & alumni to learn more about …
Virtual NSLI-Y hiring language instructors, seeking high school students to study a NSLI-Y language
The Virtual NSLI-Y Fall 2021 student and teacher applications are currently open! Both Fall 2021 (Sept-Nov) and Winter 2022 (Jan-March) programs we are offering Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), Hindi (NEW!), Korean, Russian, and Turkish (NEW!). And …