Boren Awards Information Session

The National Security Education Program awards Boren Scholarships and Fellowships to U.S. undergraduate and graduate students committeed to long-term overseas study and to federal service. Applicants must be U.S. citizens, applying to study in an overseas destination of which they …

Bridging Classrooms and Careers in Chinese Studies

Congratulations to Lu Yin and Jue Chen of the Chinese Program, who have been awarded a Lubar Entrepreneurship Center Fellowship for the 2026–2027 academic year in support of their project, “Bridging Classrooms and Careers: A Bilingual OER Hub for Experiential …

Critical Languages Scholarship information session

The U.S. Department of State supports the Critical Languages Scholarship (CLS) program, which provides immersive summer study abroad programs of 7-10 weeks for U.S. undergraduate and graduate students to study languages deemed to have particular strategic importance to the U.S. Applicants must …

Lu Yin Receives 2026 Cheng & Tsui Professional Development Grant for Teachers of Chinese 

Lu Yin, Senior Teaching Faculty in the Chinese Program at UWM, has received the 2026 Cheng & Tsui Professional Development Grant for Teachers of Chinese from the Chinese Language Teachers Association, USA (CLTA-USA). Yin received the grant in support of her presentation at the 2026 CLTA Annual Conference, held at the University of …

UWM Chinese Program Earns National Recognition at 2025 National Chinese EXPO

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Chinese Program has achieved a significant milestone on the national stage. Student works from the Chinese program were recently selected for the 2025 National Chinese EXPO of Student Works, a prestigious showcase featuring outstanding Chinese language …