Senior Lecturer Maria Khotimsky (left) with MIT students Gabrielle Marvez (middle) and Karen Camacho (right) at the New England Olympiada of Spoken Russian at the Davis Center at Harvard on April 7.

Maria Khotimsky, Senior Lecturer in Russian, reported on some of the accomplishments of current or former students!

  • Gabrielle Marvez and Karen Camacho, second-year MIT undergrads, participated in the New England Olympiada of Spoken Russian at the Davis Center at Harvard on Sunday, April 7.
  • Keenan Albee (PhD, AeroAstro), who studies Russian at MIT, won the Critical Language Scholarship for studying Russian language in Nizhni Novgorod, Russia this summer;
  • Piper Sigrest (class of 2018, major in AeroAsto, minor in Russian), currently a PhD student at the  University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, was accepted to study at the Advanced Russian Language and Area Studies Program in Moscow this summer.