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Daniel Blackey: Critical Language Scholarships

A Penn student, Daniel Blackey and a recent alumnus, William Dossett, have been awarded Critical Language Scholarships. They are among approximately 560 US undergraduate and graduate student CLS scholarship recipients this year.

Daniel Blackey, a rising sophomore from Charlotte, North Carolina, is studying Mandarin at Shaanxi Normal University in Xi’an, China. An alumnus of the National Security Language Initiative for Youth, Mr. Blackey has studied Chinese with the Confucius Institute at the University of Minnesota in Shanghai, China. He recently attended the 2016 National Chinese Language Conference in Chicago as an intensive language study abroad presenter.

William Dossett, C’16, from Nashville, Tennessee, was also a recipient.

The Critical Language Scholarship Program is part of a US government effort to expand the number of Americans studying and mastering critical foreign languages.

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