By Emily Sallee

LEXINGTON, Ky. (May 13, 2021) —  Kayden Jenson has received a 2021 Boren Fellowship to study Turkish. Jenson is pursuing joint degrees in law and diplomacy and international commerce through the Rosenberg College of Law and the Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce at the University of Kentucky.

The Boren Awards fund up to $25,000 for undergraduates and graduate students to support language study, research and study abroad in world regions critical to U.S. interests. Jenson’s award is part of the Turkish Flagship Language Initiative (TURFLI), which funds a summer program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in addition to language study at the Azerbaijan University of Languages in Baku, Azerbaijan, during the fall semester.     

Along with Jenson, two UK students were named alternates for the 2021 Boren Awards:

• Emma Goldsby, a political science, economics and Lewis Honors College senior.
• Victor Montgomery, a diplomacy and international commerce graduate student and 2018 modern and classical languages, literatures and cultures/Russian studies graduate.