Boren Success Stories

American students with disabilities have received the Boren Awards for International Study scholarships and fellowships from National Security Education Program for post-secondary study abroad opportunities.

Boren Scholar Will Study Language, Disability in China

Chinese-American student Ming Canaday, who previously studied in China through CIEE, will continue language studies at a Chinese University as a Boren Scholar. Read an article about her goals for the trip and her career improving the lives of people with disabilities on the University of Oregon website.

Pushing Beyond Limits (Argentina)

Cheri Blauwet, a wheelchair user and Paralympic gold medalist in wheelchair racing, writes about her college study abroad experience to Argentina on a National Security Exchange Program Boren Scholarship. Published in Abroad View.

Studying Abroad in China with Diabetes

Elise Read spent a semester studying Chinese at the Beijing Normal University through a federally-funded NSEP Boren scholarship. In this narrative, Elise reflects on the preparations she arranged to manage her diabetes while abroad.