Scientist Ross McIntosh has been working to overcome antivaccination beliefs in communities experiencing polio outbreaks in Africa. Fluency in French—gained through a fellowship at the Language Schools—has helped him to overcome vaccine hesitancy.
As a doctor, Masiray Kamara always knew clear communication was vital. Now she is putting skills gained through a fellowship at the Language Schools to use in her practice to build deeper bonds and help her patients overcome mistrust in the medical system.
A fellowship at the Language Schools gave Middle East journalist Leila Barghouty a vital tool: the ability to communicate with the subjects of her stories without an interpreter.
A summer teaching science to refugee children showed Hannah Harris the power of language. A fellowship at the School of Korean has gave her the skills to advance international collaboration as a communicator for the International Astronomical Union.
Stephen Snyder, vice president for academic affairs and dean of the Language Schools, spoke to the Houston Chronicle about the many benefits of speaking more than one language.
Rebecca Glasberg’s MA French ’15 dissertation charts new academic waters in examining representations of Jews and Jewishness in North African postcolonial French-language literature.
Chinese School attendee Bonnie Glaser offers her take on China-Taiwan relations and the potential impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in the CBS News podcast Intelligence Matters.
German School attendee Kazem Abdullah will take the conductor’s podium this fall at the world premiere of the opera Castor and Patience, commissioned by the Cincinnati Opera.
