With support from its US Department of Education Title VI grant, the Center for Latin American Studies is supporting eleven undergraduate students and six graduate students with Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships for Academic Year 2021-2022. Academic Year FLAS fellows receive tuition support and a stipend to focus on language study in Ohio State's Portuguese and Quechua programs. This year’s fellows are:

Undergraduate students:

• Paden Aubry, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, studying Portuguese
• Katriese DeLeon, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, studying Portuguese
• Olivia Drambarean, Department of History, studying Portuguese
• Andrew Gantt, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, studying Portuguese
• Clara Hach, John Glenn College of Public Affairs, studying Portuguese
• Sophia Lenhart, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, studying Portuguese
• Orianna McDavid, Department of English, studying Portuguese
• Dylan Newport, Department of Geography, studying Portuguese
• Cullen Roth, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, studying Portuguese
• Micah Unzueta, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, studying Quechua
• Casey Wood, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, studying Portuguese

Graduate students:

• Alexa Civittolo, Moritz College of Law, studying Portuguese
• Tara Hazel, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, studying Portuguese
• Ellie Kaiser, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, studying Portuguese
• Deborah Waughtal, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, studying Quechua
• Frederick Woodrum, Department of Speech & Hearing Science, studying Portuguese
• Gabriel Zeballos, Department of Geography, studying Quechua

Please join us in congratulating our CLAS Academic Year 2021-2022 FLAS fellows. Each week throughout the fall semester, we'll feature two of these fellows in our weekly newsletter and here in our News section.

Also stay tuned for updates on the next FLAS competition for Summer 2022 and Academic Year 2022-2023!