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Russian Studies Newsletter Spring 2025

Happy spring from UF Russian Studies!

Happy spring from UF Russian Studies!

Wednesday May 28, 2025

View all Russian Studies Newsletter articles > As another eventful academic year comes to an end, let’s take pause to congratulate our stellar majors and minors who finish their degrees this spring. One major, Julia Zuercher (featured below) walked in May, and a dozen or so others (some featured in photos below) successfully completed the […]
New graduate profile: Zuercher embarks on a career in intelligence

New graduate profile: Zuercher embarks on a career in intelligence

Wednesday May 28, 2025

Our recent star graduate, Julia Zuercher, completed her degree this spring with a double major in Russian and international studies. Having successfully completed UF’s AFROTC program, she has been commissioned into the U.S. Air Force as a second lieutenant, where she will commence work as an intelligence officer. Julia also completed an outstanding honors thesis […]
Cheyenne Stonick (’21) charts path from humanitarian aid work to the University of Oxford

Cheyenne Stonick (’21) charts path from humanitarian aid work to the University of Oxford

Wednesday May 28, 2025

What have you been up to since leaving UF? After graduating with a Russian language and literature degree, and double minors in Spanish and English, I worked for over two years in humanitarian aid. Beginning on the heels of Kabul’s collapse in 2021, I worked in the heightened-risk department of Intensive Case Management (ICM) at […]
Mikhaylov and Wright create multipronged student-run non-profit to help Ukraine

Mikhaylov and Wright create multipronged student-run non-profit to help Ukraine

Wednesday May 28, 2025

The fall of 2023 found Mikhail Mikhaylov growingly frustrated by a sense of helplessness with the ongoing war in Ukraine, so he decided to channel his energy into something more constructive. Months later, he had co-founded the Ukrainian Rebuilding Initiative, a project-based non-profit working to help Ukrainians in five areas: civil engineering, public health, prosthetics, […]
Honors and Awards

Honors and Awards

Wednesday May 28, 2025

Julia Zuercher joins Hannah Bogard (neé Harris) as the recipient of the Russian Major and author of a successfully completed honors thesis (profiled above). Hannah’s thesis, completed in December 2024, won her the prestigious Undergraduate Essay Contest of the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies, the largest regional chapter of our national organization, covering a territory […]