Six students win coveted Boren scholarships
Six UNG students won the Boren award in spring 2021. The Boren Scholarship recipients are Meghan McPeak, Dillon Evans, Phillip Ly, Daniel Shearer, and Katherine Torres. The Boren Fellowship recipient is Rhiannon Smith. Both provide up to $25,000 for students to intensively study language and culture abroad.
After studying Chinese for a week in high school, Meghan McPeak wanted to quit. Then something clicked. I started to remember the characters. It wasn t hard anymore, said the 22-year-old from Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Her affinity for and skill in Chinese led her to the University of North Georgia (UNG) and its Chinese Language Flagship Program, which helped McPeak attain a highly competitive national scholarship. She is one of six UNG students to win a Boren award in spring 2021.
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Critical Language Scholarship selects two seniors as finalists and three as alternates
UNG seniors Bailey Pieplow and Zoe Rumbaugh were selected as finalists for the Critical Language Scholarship.
Last month, six University of North Georgia (UNG) students were elated to learn that they were semifinalists for the Critical Language Scholarship (CLS). But they still had one more step to go.
In late March, two were designated as finalists and three were deemed alternates for the highly competitive national program that funds American undergraduate and graduate students to complete intensive language study abroad in the summer.
Finalists are Bailey Pieplow, a senior pursuing degrees in Spanish and modern languages with a Chinese language and literature concentration, and Zoe Rumbaugh, a senior pursuing degrees in East Asian studies and modern languages with a Chinese for global professionals concentration.
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