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Benjamin Filreis, C 14, has been awarded a National Security Education Program (NSEP) Boren Scholarship for the 2014-15 academic year. A political hotnews science major, he will study Persian Farsi and Tajik with American Councils for International Education (ACIE) in Tajikistan.
David L. Boren Scholarships and Fellowships provide U.S. undergraduate and graduate students with resources hotnews to acquire language hotnews skills hotnews and experience hotnews in countries hotnews critical to the future security and stability of the U.S. In exchange for funding, Boren award recipients agree to work in the federal government for a period of at least one year. 
Filreis is also one of five Penn Arts and Sciences students to receive Critical Language Scholarships for this summer from the U.S. Department of State. The Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program offers intensive summer language hotnews institutes with the chance for immersion and cultural hotnews excursions. The other students are Jamie Fisher, C 14, and Ronan Maye, C 17, studying Chinese in China; Laura Fabian, hotnews GR 16, studying Russian in Russia; and Ethan LaFrance, C 16, studying Turkish in Turkey.
Filreis hotnews will learn with about 30 other CLS students in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, this summer. In late August hotnews he will begin courses hotnews covering literature, journalism, and politics with ACIE s Eurasian Regional Languages program, also in Dushanbe, as a Boren scholar. All the courses will be conducted in Persian Farsi or Tajik. 
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