Kudos
GW Students and Graduates
Jaime Oberlander, a student of Korean at GW, has been awarded a Boren Fellowship.
Grace Lim, a student of Korean at GW, has been awarded a National Flagship fellowship.
Harald Olsen, a student of Korean at GW, has been awarded a Boren Scholarship and the Sejon Scholarship.
Courtney Rowland, a student of Korean at GW, has been awarded a Sigur Center Summer Grant.
Jonelle Daley, a student of Korean at GW, has been awarded a Freeman-Asia Award.
Sean Trainor, who Professor Jonathan Chaves supervised, published his honors thesis as a Luther Rice Undergraduate Research Fellowship paper in Praesidium (edited by John Harris). The on-line version is accessible from here. This is the first part, the second to appear in the next issue.
Professor Chaves writes: [T]his project in particular, I think, shows how [the Luther Rice fellowships] can bring out the best of "interdisciplinary" scholarship. Some of the issues Sean is dealing with, despite the precision of the historical situation, do expand into universal concerns, and that is why it is possible for such research to cross the boundaries of the particular academic classifications currently in use.
Spencer Barnes, a student of Japanese at GW, has been awarded the Bridging Scholarship by the Association of Teachers of Japanese to study in Japan.
Catarina Kim, an Elliott School graduate with a Korean Minor, won the prestigious National Security Education Program (NSEP) National Flagship Language Initiative (NFLI) Fellowship, 2005-7. She did a year of study at the University of Hawaii and spent a year abroad at Korea University in the second year. She will be serving out a government contract working in the federal intelligence sector.
Upon learning that she was a recipient of this prestigious award, Cat said, "I wanted to share this news with you [her mentors at GW] so that I can encourage other students to try out for it in coming years. This is a great opportunity for all students that are serious about pursuing advanced levels of language acquisition, especially in Korean, Russian, Arabic and Mandarin, and desirous of working in the federal government. I also wanted to mention that applying for this fellowship was something that I was encouraged to do as a result of my success with the Gamow fellowship at GW. I really appreciated the year's worth of research and experience that I gained from being a Gamow fellow, and I see the research that I did with Professor Young-Key Kim-Renaud on translation theory and basic linguistics as the starting point for my interest in pursuing the NSEP fellowship."
[Ed. 2005 was a record-making year for our Korean program: three out of only a dozen recipients of this prestigious fellowship were students of Dr. Young-Key Kim-Renaud.]
Elizabeth Butler, Japanese Major 2004, was awarded a Cambridge University Academic Scholarship and received an MA in Japanese Studies from Cambridge University.
Jocelyn Campanero, Japanese Major 2004, was awarded a GWU Bender scholarship and received an MA in East Asian Studies from Cambridge University (2006).
Ben Robbins, Japanese Minor 2005, has been awarded a full scholarship for Regional Studies (East Asia) at Harvard University.
Erin Kruth, Japanese Major 2006, taught English in South Korea as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant (2006).
Ross Matzkin-Bridger, Japanese Major 2007, was awarded a Japan Student Services Organization Scholarship to study at Kyoto Univeristy (2004-2005).
Jim Platte, a former GW student (now at Tufts), has been awarded the Critical Language Scholarship by the Korea Society.
Faculty
Professor Young-Key Kim-Renaud, Chair of EALL, was featured in the July 12 edition of the (Segye Times). The article highlights Professor Kim-Renaud's life-long work toward the goal of promoting deep understanding of Korean culture overseas.
Professors Shoko Hamano and Wakana Kikuchi-Cavanaugh received the first Language Center Award for Innovations in Language Teaching on May 7, 2008 for their online project "Visualizing Japanese Grammar". The award recognizes innovations in language teaching that inspire students' extraordinary engagement with a language and culture, while promoting effective language learning practices.
Professor Phyllis Zhang is one of the 2007 recipients of The George Washington University's annual Bender Teaching Award. The Bender Awards honor GW educators for their work towards the development of faculty activities in addition to their role as outstanding educators. These awards recognize undergraduate, graduate, and professional teaching at GW. The awards will be presented at the Fall Faculty Assembly in October.
Dr. Young-Key Kim-Renaud, Professor of Korean Language and Culture and International Affairs and Chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at George Washington University, received a Republic of Korea Order of Culture Merit, Jade Class on October 9, 2006, the Korean Alphabet Day, for her life-time contribution to the advancement of Korean language and culture. The Order was conferred upon the recipient by President Roh Moo-hyun at the Sejong Cultural Center in Seoul. The Han'gul Alphabet Day was voted by the Korean National Assembly in December 2005 to become one of the four most important commemorative days of the year in Korea. Kim-Renaud thus became the first linguist to receive the honor since the Alphabet Day became one of the most significant days of celebration in Korea.
Professor Shoko Hamano Recipient of Prestigious Trachtenberg Teaching Award. For more details, click here.