Graduate Students Successfully Defend Dissertations
Natalia Sletova defended her PhD dissertation entitled “L2 writing as a scaffold for L2 speaking grammatical accuracy in a text reconstruction task” and accepted a position as Lecturer of the Russian Language and Culture with the University of Florida.
Ekaterina Tikhonyuk defended her dissertation, “The Intricacies of Russian Media Landscape During the Putin Era”, earlier this summer.
Congratulations Drs. Sletova and Tikhonyuk!
Students Excel at 2023 Russian Undergraduate Olympiada
The 12th annual Russian Undergraduate Olympiada took place on Saturday, February 18th at Bowling Green State University. Over 20 students from four colleges and universities in Ohio competed in levels 1-3.
The competition consisted of three sections: a poem recitation, an oral interview, and a presentation based on a topic that was chosen by each student. In addition to putting their Russian skills to the test, the competition gave the students a chance to meet and network with other Russian language learners in the state of Ohio. Congratulations to this year's winners and to all of the students who participated. We would also like to thank Bowling Green State University for hosting this year's competition and our judges who volunteered their time to judge the Olympiada.
Level 2
- 1st Place: Sophie Papp (The Ohio State University)
- 2nd Place: Pella Anderson (The College of Wooster)
- 3rd Place: Sophie Boelk (The Ohio State University)
Level 3
- 1st Place: Aimma Farooqui (The Ohio State University)
National Honors Awards
Russian majors Kira Foster and Sophie Papp were awarded Gold and Silver (respectively) medals in their categories in the National Russian Essay Contest.
Russian major Bailee Wolf was awarded an ACTR Post-Secondary Russian Scholar Laureate Award.
