Awards & Recognition (2011)

Post-Secondary Russian Scholar Laureate Award
American Council of Teachers of Russian
Alyssa Haerle

Graduating from the UCLA Flagship (domestic)
Fiona Hay

Continuing with the 2011-2012 Flagship Capstone year in Saint Petersburg
Alyssa Haerle
Gideon Sandford

Boren Fellowship for year-long Russian language study abroad
Alyssa Haerle

Flagship Scholarship for year-long Russian language study abroad
Alyssa Haerle
Gideon Sandford

FLAS Scholarship for year-long Russian language study at UCLA
2010-2011: Gideon Sandford
2011-2012: Derek Groom, Sydney Heller

FLAS Scholarship for summer study of Russian
Derek Groom

Flagship Scholarship for summer study of Russian
Julius Berezin
Dustin Chavkin
Derek Groom
Alyssa Haerle
Sydney Heller
Polina Mareninova

2011 Annual National Post-Secondary Russian Essay Contest
American Council of Teachers of Russian
UCLA Recipients

Non-heritage speaker, Second year Russian, Honorable Mention
Agape Deng

Non-heritage speaker, Third year Russian, Honorable Mention
Derek Groom

Heritage Russian speaker, Level 2, Honorable Mention
Margo Gevorgyan

Heritage Russian speaker, Level 3, Gold Medal
Natalya Slobodyanyuk

Nadya Dorsht
“The Russian Energy State: An Economic and Legal Assessment”

Derek Groom and Sydney Heller
“Immigration and Emigration: An Analysis of Leaving the Soviet Union for the United States”

Alyssa Haerle
“What Skolkovo and Russia’s Modernization Could Mean for the West”

Michelle Mikolajczyk
“The Sharper Side of the Pen: Political Poetry of War-Torn Poland”

Irina Mkhitaryan
“Life of Sofia Ivanovna Blyuvshteyn (aka Sonka—the Golden Hand)”

Michelle Morley
“Gogol’s Favorite Muse”

Katja Nelson
“International Relations of Russia and the European Union: A Constant Impasse”

Kate Stimac
“Gender Roles in the Countries of the Former Yugoslavia: The LGBT Experience and Gay Rights”

Ibrahim Zaganjor and Milica Sapungin
“Montenegro: A Separate State Developing a New Independent Identity”