UWM junior wins major international scholarship

A headshot of a young white woman. Her hair is dark with bleached highlights. She wears wire-rimmed glasses and a dark jacket as she smiles at the camera.
UWM global studies major Lauren Sroka will spend a year studying in Japan after winning a Boren Scholarship. She’s the first UWM student to win the highly competitive national award since 2015. (UWM Photo/Elora Hennessey)

A suggestion from her Japanese sensei – her teacher, that is – has given Lauren Sroka an amazing opportunity to study for a year in Japan.

Sroka, a junior majoring in global studies, was awarded the prestigious Boren Scholarship, funded by the U.S. government through the National Security Education Program. She is the first UWM student to receive the highly competitive national award since 2015.

The Boren Awards (scholarship and fellowship) support study abroad programs focused on intensive language study, cultural immersion and long-term study abroad. Sroka is minoring in Japanese.

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