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University of Richmond Student Awarded $20,000 National Security Grant to Study in China

May 27, 2005

University of Richmond student Lisa Moore has been awarded a $20,000 David L. Boren Graduate Fellowship by the National Security Education Program (NSEP) for a year’s study in China.

Moore, a junior from Silver Spring, Md., will study at Peking University in Beijing and East China Normal University in Shanghai.

Beginning June 24, she will take Mandarin language courses at Peking. In the fall at East China Normal, she will take classes in the economics, history, business and social and urban development of China.

Next spring, she will be back at Peking, where she will study traditional and contemporary Chinese literature and poetry, as well as Chinese news and media.

Moore also will be studying under a University of Richmond-Beijing summer program and the Council on International Educational Exchange programs in Shanghai and Beijing.

NSEP was created by Congress in 1991 to address the need to increase the ability of U.S. citizens to communicate and compete globally by knowing the languages and cultures of other countries. Recipients must be enrolled in or applying to a graduate program at a U.S. college or university and agree to work in the Departments of Defense, Homeland Security, or State or in the intelligence community.

After graduating from Richmond in 2007 with a degree in ethnic studies, with a concentration in Native American and East Asiatic Peoples, she plans to pursue a master of arts degree in cultural anthropology at either the National Taiwan University or the London School of Economics.