Sociology Ph.D student Natalie Young has been selected as a recipient of the Foreign Language and Areas Studies Fellowship (FLAS) for Academic Year 2014-2015. The fellowship, funded through a grant to Penn from the U.S Department of Education, provides tuition assistance and a stipend "to assist meritorious undergraduate students and graduate students undergoing training in modern foreign languages and related area or international studies."
Natalie plans to use the fellowship to advance her study of Mandarin, Chinese and contemporary Chinese society.