One of our Japanese majors, Alexandria Cookson, received DEALL’s 2023-2024 Dr. Jonathan and Dr. Olive Wilkin Scholarship. The Dr. Jonathan and Dr. Olive Wilkin Scholarship is a scholarship to facilitate the advancement of a student’s education in Japanese language. With the scholarship, Alexandria will take Level 4 Japanese in the SPEAC Program in Summer 2023 and Level 5 Japanese in 2023-2024. After graduating from OSU, she plans to study gerontology in Japan. Alexandria says, “There is a worldwide demographic shift where older adults are beginning to take up a greater portion of the population. Japan is at the forefront of this shift, and I know being able to understand what has and hasn’t worked will be vital to the rest of the world. I want to be at that forefront and need the language skills to justify it.”

Please join us in congratulating Alexandria on receiving the scholarship.