Critical Language Scholarship Awards

February 2025: Congratulations to the following two BSU students (pictured below), who’ve made it to the semi-finalist round for the Critical Language Scholarship program, which is a State Department program that facilitates two months of intensive summer language study in 13 languages considered essential to the United States’ engagement with the world. Approximately 500 undergraduate and graduate students nationwide are selected each year. Our semi-finalists applied to study the languages indicated below.

  • Simon Webster (Turkish) – senior Mathematical Science and Mathematical Economics major with a concentration in Applied Mathematics
  • Kiara Ponce de Leon (Chinese)- senior Communication Studies major with a concentration in Interpersonal Communications and a minor in Chinese