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A NSLI-Y Interactive piece by Abby Herring, an alumna of the Russian Summer 2020 and 2021 virtual programs. https://nsliy-interactive.org/2021/09/07/nsli-y-russian-summer-with-a-twist
Graham Shunk, a high school senior from North Carolina and exchange alumnus of the National Security Languages Initiative for Youth (NLSI-Y) program, is currently a finalist for NASA’s Grow Beyond Earth competition and has designed one of 5 winning prototypes of dense-agriculture systems for sustainably growing food in microgravity. Graham has spent the past few years …
As North Carolina high school student Graham Shunk was wrapping up a virtual Russian course in August 2020, a journalist from the Russian-language television channel NTV-America reached out to invite him to give an interview–in Russian–for an article on his innovative research on the protective features of a fungus growing in the Chernobyl exclusion zone, …
Peace Corps volunteer Elisia Cintron is an alumna of the Pushkin Summer Institute and also served as a PSI resident counselor. This press release features Elisia and her volunteer experience in North Macedonia in celebration of national Peace Corps Week (March 1-7)! Follow this link to read the press release, “UW–Madison Ranked 1st in Producing …
Halle, from Baltimore, took part in the PSI Abroad NSLI-Y program in summer 2018 and contributed this story about her host family to NSLI-Y Interactive. https://www.nsliy-interactive.org/2018/09/04/my-second-family-in-latvia/
In fall 2017, UW–Madison welcomed its first cohort of “Pushkin Scholars.” This program, open to alumni of the STARTALK Pushkin Summer Institute, a summer intensive pre-college program, provides priority consideration for financial support for students who study Russian at UW–Madison. Although the Pushkin Scholars do not necessarily major in literature or write poems, the program …