On October 7, Russian Flagship Program faculty, staff, students and their parents gathered in the Queen Anne Lounge to recognize its first alumni cohort and celebrate their accomplishments. Through the Russian Flagship Program, UNCRFP’s alumni Griffin McGuire, John Kolodich, and … Continued

UNC-Chapel Hill’s Russian Flagship Program (RFP) has completed its second year, and its students are continuing to make great achievements. Four received Critical Language Scholarships, three earned Boren scholarships, one received a Gilman scholarship and two were selected for Project … Continued

Miguel Angel Bahena Schott, Tekla Maisashvili, Micah McMinn, Quintin Gay, and Samuel Quesada represented the UNC-CH Russian Flagship Program at the National Language Flagship Program Hackathon (University of Maryland, College Park, April 8–9, 2022), where they worked with other Flagship … Continued

Lucas Risinger first became intrigued by Russia’s history and culture in high school when his history class was learning about the Cold War. When he arrived at Carolina a few years later to study economics and math, he continued to … Continued

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill hosted a virtual awards ceremony to celebrate teams from the seventh annual Learning Through Languages High School Research Symposium on Dec. 8. This year, world language students from 12 high schools conducted … Continued

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill held a roundtable discussion about federal funding for global education with U.S. Representative David Price on Monday, Sept. 20, at the FedEx Global Education Center. Price, a former Morehead Scholar and member of UNC-Chapel … Continued

The Russian Flagship Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill recently completed a successful first year. Launched in April 2020, the federally funded language initiative is the first of its kind in North Carolina and one of … Continued

Part of the UNC Russian Flagship Program, Griffin McGuire will spend the next year in Almaty, Kazakhstan, studying at the Al-Farabi Kazakh National University. When Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, Griffin McGuire realized it was a pivotal moment — not … Continued

Carolina’s new Russian Language Flagship Program allows students in any academic background to intensively study Russian and participate in professional development programming tailored to each student. A new program at Carolina allows students to take a deep dive into Russian … Continued

The UNC Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages (GSLL) and the Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies (CSEEES) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have been awarded a $1.2 million grant to jointly launch an … Continued