UW Slavic Languages and Literatures graduate student Nathan Marks is currently on a Foreign Language and Area Studies fellowship (FLAS) at John Paul II Catholic University in Lublin, Poland. Nathan’s

UW junior and Electrical Engineering major Molly O’Brien is currently on a Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship in Saint Petersburg, Russia, where she is studying with CIEE (Council on International

Are humans necessarily a terrestrial species?  Hannah Bassett (Marine & Environmental Affairs) argues that humans are equally aquatic.  Hannah is a Global Studies and Southeast Asia FLAS fellow in Tagalog.

The Center for West European Studies has published profiles of several recent FLAS fellows.  Click on the links below to read the profiles. Isatou Jallow, Law.  Language: French. Jennifer Ryder,

In the video below, Teyloure Ring explains the Russian Federation’s attitude towards encryption and encrypted products. Ms. Ring argues that while there was a lot of concern that countries such

The East Asia Center congratulates FLAS Fellow Zachary Reshovsky, who was awarded the prestigious Yenching Scholarship for China Studies.  The Yenching Scholarship comprises a fully-funded one-year master’s program at Peking University.

The Center for Global Studies congratulates FLAS Fellow Farah Mohamed, who has been awarded the 2016 Gilbert S. Omenn Award for Academic Excellence by the UW School of Public Health. 

Southeast Asia Center FLAS fellows Kacey Rackowitz and Shannon Bush write about a feast hosted for UW students of Indonesian by Senior Lecturer Desiana Pauli Sandjaja and her friend, Bu

The Middle East Center has published profiles of the Summer 2016 Middle East Center FLAS fellows.   Read the profiles here. FLAS Fellowships are funded by the International and Foreign

Apple has been in the news a lot recently. As discussed in Alexander Kegel’s post contextualizing the iPhone encryption debate, the San Bernardino terrorists used an iPhone and the FBI