Media Relations
Wednesday,
May 5,
2004
Linguistics Department
At just 22, recent Indiana University graduate Isak Osagyefo Nti Asare already has lived and studied in more countries than most people visit in a lifetime. He graduated with highest distinction from IU's College of Arts and Sciences on Saturday with a Bachelor of Arts degree and majors in political science and linguistics, a minor in African languages (Swahili and Akan) and an undergraduate certificate in African Studies. Nti Asare learned last week that he also has been selected for a Thomas R. Pickering Graduate Foreign Affairs Fellowship, which provides funding to participants as they prepare academically and professionally to enter the U.S. Department of State Foreign Service.
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Indiana University junior Kip Hutchins, 19, has been awarded a 2011 Beinecke Scholarship that he can apply to the graduate school of his choice. Hutchins plans to use the award to further his Mongolian studies following his projected May 2012 graduation. A Hutton Honors College scholar double majoring in linguistics and folklore and ethnomusicology in the IU College of Arts and Sciences, he is one of 20 students nationwide to receive a Beinecke Scholarship, and the seventh IU student to win the award, which was established in 1971. IU students have earned the Beinecke Scholarship in four of the last five years.
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The College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University Bloomington today (Dec. 20) announced the establishment of an undergraduate Swahili Flagship program, to be led by Alwiya Omar, clinical associate professor in the Department of Linguistics. The Swahili Flagship, with a three-year grant of $600,000, will be IU's second such advanced language program, joining the Chinese Flagship that was begun in 2008. It will be only the second African Languages Flagship in the nation.
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Indiana University's Learnability Project recently received a $2.34 million, five-year renewal of its National Institutes of Health funding, to continue through 2014. More than 1,000 children from across the state and beyond have received free, one-of-a-kind speech therapy through the program since its initial NIH funding in 1985.
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Albert Valdman, Rudy Professor emeritus of French, Italian and linguistics, has been honored by the government of Quebec Province in Canada for his work to foster better understanding of the use of the French language in North America.
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Abigail Scott, a student at Iindiana University Bloomington, is one of 20 college students nationwide selected to receive the Beinecke Scholarship.
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