Morganville resident wins U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship to Study in Russia

VILLANOVA, PA (05/19/2010)(readMedia)-- Villanova University is pleased to announce that Morganville resident Nicole Cicero (class of 2012) has been awarded a U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship to study in Russia this summer.

The Department of State launched the Critical Language Scholarships for Intensive Summer Institutes in 2006 to increase opportunities for American students to study critical-need languages overseas. The program is part of a wider U.S. government effort to dramatically expand the number of Americans studying and mastering critical-need languages.

Cicero is among the 575 U.S. undergraduate and graduate students awarded by the U.S. Department of State's CLS Program in 2010 to study Arabic, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Indonesian, Persian and Russian and Turkic  languages. Cicero and her fellow scholarship recipients will spend seven to ten weeks in intensive language institutes this summer in fifteen countries where these languages are spoken.They  will also support their language acquisition through cultural immersion activities. CLS Program participants are expected to continue their language study beyond the scholarship and apply their critical language skills in their future professional careers.

For more information about the U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship, please visit: http://www.clscholarship.org/