Kudos: UGA Russian Flagship Program receives undergraduate, ROTC student support scholarships; Means named 2019-2020 Public Service and Outreach Faculty Fellow
UGA Russian Flagship Program receives undergraduate, ROTC student support scholarships
The Russian Domestic Undergraduate Flagship Program at the University of Georgia recently received a $100,000 intensive domestic language studies scholarship to help fund the study abroad experience of Russian Flagship students.
The program—which admitted its freshman cohort of 20 students in fall 2018—awards each student $5,000 to study abroad during the summer and $15,000 to study abroad for an entire academic year in any Flagship-approved, Russian-speaking country.
“Already, the program has helped me in my internship at a regulatory consulting company, and it will soon allow me to present research relevant to my career at the UCLA Undergraduate Conference on Slavic and East/Central European Studies,” said Erica Bressner, a second-year Flagship student majoring in economics. “As a former NSLI-Y participant, I am very happy to have another Department of State Exchange Program as part of my undergraduate experience.”
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Means named 2019-2020 Public Service and Outreach Faculty Fellow
Darris Means, an assistant professor in the Department of Counseling and Human Development Services, was recently named a 2019-2020 Public Service and Outreach (PSO) Faculty Fellow.
As a PSO Faculty Fellow, Means will work with the Archway Partnership—a unit of PSO created to enhance UGA’s land-grant mission of teaching, research, and service—to study the tools, skills, and resources that rural high school students need to prepare for college.
“I’m excited to build upon my partnership [with Archway] by serving as a Public Service and Outreach Fellow,” said Means, who has been working with Archway for the past two years. “I will collaborate with high school students and UGA undergraduate students from rural communities to develop, implement, and assess an intervention that can be used to support them on their pathways to postsecondary education.”