Weaverville
Student accepts scholarship for Russian program
Chantal Taylor, a sopho-
more at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania and a Weaverville resident, has been selected for a highly competitive Boren Schol- arship for International Study. Just 138 undergraduates were selected from more than 900 applicants for these awards. Boren Scholarships provide up
to $20,000 to U.S. undergradu- ate students to study abroad in areas of the world that are criti- cal to U.S. interests and under- represented in study abroad. Taylor will use the award to
fund a year’s study at the Inter- national University in Moscow, in a program developed by the American Council of Teachers of Russian/American Councils for International Education. Taylor will live with a Russian
family for the year. This living situation, she says, is preferable to dorm life because it will allow her to “learn Russian through everyday interactions and expe- rience Russian culture and food
Taylor is the daughter of Mars Hill professor Teresa Sumpter.
in a safe environment.” Being able to converse informally with
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Russians of different ages will, she predicts, improve her abil- ity to speak and understand the language. The program also encompass-
es a variety of weekend cultural activities involving travel to major cities and cultural land- marks throughout Russia. Much of her course of study
will be focused on Russian lan- guage and literature, but she hopes to be able to take at least one course in computer science while she is abroad. “I’m very interested in seeing
how computers are integrated into Russian society and cul- ture,” she says. Bryn Mawr is the lead insti-
tution in a consortium of col- leges and universities hosting the National Flagship Language Program in Russian, part of the National Security Education Program funded by the federal government.
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