Post by Penn South Asia Center

📢 Announcing the South Asia Center's 2025-2026 Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellows! We are proud to support these outstanding students as they deepen their linguistic and cultural knowledge in pursuit of their academic and professional goals. For academic-year awards, the FLAS grant provides graduate students with $18,000 for tuition and a $20,000 stipend, and undergraduate students with $10,000 for tuition and a $5,000 stipend. This grant is critical to building advanced language proficiency and cultural expertise across the United States. The program cultivates the next generation of area specialists who are prepared to meet national needs across the public, private, nonprofit, and for-profit sectors. UPenn-South Asia Center's 2025-2026 FLAS Fellows: Abhi Chadha – 6th year Hindi | The Lauder Institute - University of Pennsylvania, Wharton and the School of Arts and Sciences Evan Tims – 1st year Hindi | SAS-Penn Anthropology Aditi Anakala – 2nd year Hindi | The Huntsman Program in International Studies and Business, Wharton, and the School of Arts and Sciences Shaila Grey – 2nd year Tamil | SAS-Undeclared Hrishita Mareddy – 3rd year Telugu | SAS-Political Science Aryaditya (Adi) Lankipalle – 4th year Hindi | The Huntsman Program in International Studies and Business, Wharton, and the School of Arts and Sciences Swipe through to learn about their language study, work, research, and their hopes for the FLAS program! #FLAS #LanguageLearning #SouthAsia #StudentSpotlight