Cornell Abroad has announced that two students, sophomores Michele Bernius and Nancy Botting, have been designated National Security Education Program (NSEP) scholarship winners for study abroad in the coming academic year. Both women are students in the College of Arts and Sciences.
The NSEP scholarship competition is the only federally funded scholarship for study abroad by American undergraduates. Of 498 applicants this year, only 155 were named winners.
Bernius, an economics major, will study abroad in the spring 2000 semester at the Kyoto Center for Japanese Studies, and Botting, a Russian and East European studies major, will study abroad through Middlebury College in the fall at Moscow State University. Both women will use their semesters abroad to undertake upper-level course work in their major fields and advanced language study. Both have preliminary plans for careers in government service and, as part of the National Security Education Program, will complete a work placement with a federal agency following graduation.
Vera Keller, also a sophomore in Arts and Sciences and a College Scholar planning to study abroad at the University of the Bosphorus in Istanbul through SUNY Binghamton next year, was named an alternate. Keller may pursue her interests in the Middle East and Central Asia through an academic career.
The NSEP competition recognizes all three Cornell students for early successes in studying less commonly taught languages and cultures and as potential leaders likely to seek international and global involvement throughout their professional lives.
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