These three award-winning #Classof2021 graduates are prepared to take on the world β through language. Joshua Abreu, Lilly Ngolvorarath and Anthony Diebold are all #worldlanguages students with bright futures an already impressive track records.
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Abreu is first RIC student ever chosen to participate in the prestigious U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship program, an eight-to-10-week venture that selects only 10 percent of applicants from undergraduate and graduate programs to study one of 15 critical languages. He would have been heading to Brazil, if not for the pandemic; instead he will be participating in the program virtually.
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Diebold is heading to Taiwan, where he was selected to be an English teaching assistant in the equally distinguished Fulbright Fellowship program.
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Ngolvorarath was a co-recipient, along with Diebold, of the 2021 Katherine Murray Prize, which honors students who embody the qualities and values that Murray, a former RIC professor in t...