Awards & Recognition 2021
Graduating Majors
Central & East European Studies
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Russian Language & Literature
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Russian Studies
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Graduating Minors
Central & East European Studies
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Russian Language
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Russian Literature
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Russian Studies
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Excellence in Russian, East European & Central European Studies Award
UCLA Department of Slavic, East European & Eurasian Languages & Cultures
Joseph Matveyenko
Clara & George Vajna Award for Excellence in Hungarian Studies
Nico Vastagh & Eva Szilardi-Thierney
American Council of Teachers of Russian Post-Secondary Russian Scholar Laureate Award
Joseph Matveyenko
Undergraduate Research Week Presentations
Joseph Matveyenko
Undergraduate Research Week poster
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UCLA Russian Flagship Program
1. UCLA Russian Flagship Domestic Course of Study
Sara Choi, Conrad Salonites
2. Continuing with the Flagship Capstone year in Almaty, Kazakhstan: Joseph Matveyenko, Aidan Sharma, Gemma Taylor
3. 2020-2021 Flagship Capstone completion, graduating in 2021
Certified Flagship Global Professional: Tyler Le
Certified Flagship Global Professionals with Distinction: Alexa Black
4. Boren Fellowship for year-long Russian language study abroad
2021-2022: Joseph Matveyenko
5. Critical Language Scholarship for Russian language summer study abroad
Kristine Carillo, Juliette Oliver, Allison Verbil
6. Flagship Scholarship for summer study of Russian: (Almaty, Kazakhstan):
Adele Hall, Kelly Nguyen, Grant Walker (UCLA); Alexis Hill, Susannah Lahiri, Elyse Ostroske (virtual/Almaty)
National Post-Secondary Russian Essay Contest
Third-year Russian, Bronze Medal: Anya Ireson-Janke
Fourth year Russian, Bronze Medal: Allison Verbil
Fourth year Russian, Honorable Mention: Conrad Salonites
Non-Russian heritage speaker, Level 3, Silver Medal: Meri Makuryan
Non-Russian heritage speaker, Level 3, Honorable Mention: Martin Adamian
Non-Russian heritage speaker, Level 4, Bronze Medal: Aigerim Toleukhanova
Non-Russian heritage speaker, Level 4, Honorable Mention: Lia Gugava
Russian heritage speaker, Level 1, Silver Medal: Daria Macauslan
Russian heritage speaker, Level 1, Honorable Mention: Nicole Bloshtein
Russian heritage speaker, Level 1, Honorable Mention: Moisey Alaev
Russian heritage speaker, Level 2, Honorable Mention: Louis Gosart
Russian heritage speaker, Level 2, Honorable Mention: Joseph Matveyenko
Russian heritage speaker, Level 2, Honorable Mention: Philipp Verpukhovskiy
UC Undergraduate Conference on Slavic & East/Central European Studies Participants
Twelve UCLA students participated in the 24th annual University of California Undergraduate Conference on Slavic and East/Central European Studies
Peter Bota (UCLA) “’In the Shadow of the Apocalypse’: Humanism, Ideology, and Samizdat in Postwar Romania”
Mina Cvjetinovic and Nikola Nikolic (UCLA) “Music as a Dividing and Unifying Force in the Ex-Yugoslav Republics”
Elen Karapetyan (UCLA) “Russian Architecture as Reflected in 19th Century Russian Literature: From Karamzin to Dostoevsky”
Joseph Matveyenko (UCLA) “Regime Change and Election Integrity in Post-Soviet Ukraine and Armenia”
Juliette Oliver (UCLA) “Greeted with Poems by Pushkin: An Exploration of the Significant Afro-Russia Immigration Waves and their Public Perceptions”
Conrad Salonites (UCLA) “An Introduction to Psychogeographic Discourses in Bely’s Petersburg”
Gemma Taylor (UCLA) “Foreign Foundations of Nation: Imperialism and the Development of the Russian Nation in A Hero of Our Time”
Vlad Manzhyliy (UCLA) “Russia and United States: Race for the Arctic”
Katherine Tsai and Sarah Alkidim (UCLA) “Has Lake Baikal Become Befouled?: A Review and Analysis of Environmental Pollutants in the World’s Largest Freshwater Lake Over The Past 30 Years”
Jonathan Vukovic (UCLA) “How Religion Shaped National Identity in the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s”