The Center for Russia, East Europe and Central Asia in cooperation with the Dept. of German, Nordic, and Slavic+ seek responsible hard-working, outgoing, friendly, and mature undergraduate students with a passion for Russian and an …
Pushkin Summer Institute
Positions Open: Work at the Pushkin Summer Institute 2023, UW-Madison
The Pushkin Summer Institute in Madison and the NSLI-Y Pushkin Summer Institute Abroad in Latvia, both managed by CREECA with support from GNS+, have several openings for summer 2023. Do note that recruitment for these positions …
Position Open: NSLI-Y Resident Director, Pushkin Summer Institute Abroad (Latvia)
The Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia (CREECA) is recruiting two Resident Directors for the NSLI-Y Pushkin Summer Institute Abroad (PSI Abroad), a 6-week, residential overseas summer program in Russian language for a …
Position Open: Pushkin Summer Institute Teaching Assistant in Writing, UW-Madison
The Pushkin Summer Institute (PSI) is an intensive pre-college summer program aimed at high-school students from underrepresented communities. This six-week program combines the intensive study of Russian language, culture, and civilization with residential living in a UW-Madison …
Position Open: CREECA Pushkin Summer Institute PA
The Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia (CREECA) seeks a graduate student with strong writing, communication, logistical, and organizational skills to work as a project assistant for the NSLI-Y Pushkin Summer Institute Abroad …
Claudia Torres Giraldo—A multilingual journey toward professional Russian proficiency and Latinx identity in Russia and Central Asia
Just as UW-Madison senior Claudia Torres Giraldo was wrapping up a year of Russian-language study in Kyrgyzstan this spring to head to Kazakhstan for a Russian-language internship, she received the Post-Secondary Russian Scholar Laureate Award …
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. …
Moscow, Mushrooms, & Mars: The research of one #ExchangeAlumni could change the future of space travel
Graham Shunk, a high school senior from North Carolina and exchange alumnus of the National Security Languages Initiative for Youth (NLSI-Y) program, is currently a finalist for NASA’s Grow Beyond Earth competition and has designed one …
NSLI-Y students maintain motivation to advance Russian proficiency in the digital classroom, imagine Russian as part of a career
As North Carolina high school student Graham Shunk was wrapping up a virtual Russian course in August 2020, a journalist from the Russian-language television channel NTV-America reached out to invite him to give an interview–in …
Opportunity: CREECA is Recruiting for NSLI-Y Pushkin Summer Institute in Daugavpils, Latvia
CREECA is recruiting a Resident Director and an Assistant Resident Director for the NSLI-Y Pushkin Summer Institute Abroad in Daugavpils, Latvia. Both positions run from June 21-August 8, 2020. Complete information, including how to apply, …