U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs 2011 Critical Language Scholarships for Intensive Summer Institutes PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: James A. Lawrence Date: May 12, 2011 Telephone: 202-632-3241 Amanda Rivkin Receives U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship Amanda Rivkin of Georgetown University has been awarded a U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) to study Azerbaijani in Azerbaijan during the summer of 2011. Amanda Rivkin is among the approximately 575 U.S. undergraduate and graduate students who received a scholarship from the U.S. Department of State’s CLS Program to study Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bangla/Bengali, Chinese, Hindi, Korean, Indonesian, Japanese, Persian, Punjabi, Russian, Turkish, or Urdu languages. U.S. students will spend seven to ten weeks in intensive language institutes this summer in 14 countries where these languages are spoken. The CLS Program provides fully-funded, group-based intensive language instruction and structured cultural enrichment experiences. CLS Program participants are expected to continue their language study beyond the scholarship and apply their critical language skills in their future professional careers. The 2011 CLS Program …