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The nearly $265,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Education will add study-abroad opportunities in Pacific Rim countries and add Hawaiian language and culture classes to the underÂ鶹ӰÊÓ academic catalog.

Horzynek will put her German and Spanish skills to use in Austria, where she will teach English to high schools and perform community engagement work at the Austrian Latin American Institute.

The National Endowment for the Humanities grant provides funding for professor Lorely French to continue her work transcribing notebooks by Roma artist, activist and Holocaust survivor Ceija Stojka.