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Boston College rising juniors Matthew Alonsozana, Stephen Jung Woo Choi and Kathleen Leuba have been awarded prestigious David L. Boren Scholarships for international study during the 2012-13 academic year.
Boren Scholarships are awarded to American undergraduate students for study in areas of the world that are critical to US interests and underrepresented in study-abroad programs, including Africa, Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, Eurasia, Latin America and the Middle East. The three scholarships represent the most success Boston College students have achieved in the Boren competition since its establishment in 1994.
Alonsozana, a Boston College Presidential Scholar who is majoring in biology and economics, will study Mandarin at Northwestern University’s Public Health in China summer program at Peking University in Beijing.
Choi is a triple major (political science, Islamic civilization and societies, and philosophy) who will study Mandarin at the Beijing Center for Chinese Studies and the China Studies Institute at Peking University.
Leuba, whose majors are international studies and Islamic civilization and societies, will study Arabic at the American University in Cairo.
For more information about the Boren Scholarships, see www.borenawards.org/boren_scholarship