Todd Schmid '09 Receives Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship

April 5, 2011

April 5, 2011, Greencastle, Ind. — Todd J. Schmid, a 2009 graduate of DePauw University and currently a student at the University of Illinois College of Law, is the recipient of a Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship.  The award will allow Schmid to study Arabic in the 2011-12 academic year through the University of Illinois Center for Global Studies.

The FLAS Fellowships program provides allocations of academic year and summer fellowships to institutions of higher education or consortia of institutions of higher education to assist meritorious undergraduate students and graduate students undergoing training in modern foreign languages and related area or international studies.  Eligible students apply for fellowships directly to an institution that has received an allocation of fellowships from the U.S. Department of Education.

Learn more here.

A philosophy and Spanish double major ar DePauw, Schmid is also a managing partner of Fields & Schmid LLP, a design consultancy with a niche in the life sciences and technology start-ups. He spent the 2009-10 academic year conducting research in Paraguay as a result of receiving an international graduate study and research grant through the Fulbright U.S. Student Program competition. Details can be found in this previous article.

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