ELS Educational Services, Inc. Announces Winners of Many Languages, One World® 2016
July 14, 2016
From a pool of over 3,600 entrants, ELS Educational Services, Inc., has announced the 60 students from 36 countries and 54 universities who have been selected as winners of the 2016 Many Languages, One World® international essay contest.
The winners have been invited to attend the Many Languages, One World Global Youth Forum at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York. The event includes an all-expense-paid trip to New York City and the opportunity to speak at the General Assembly of the United Nations. Students will present action plans related to the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
The Many Languages, One World contest challenged college and university students around the globe to write an essay examining global citizenship, cultural understanding and the role that the multilingual ability can have in fostering both. Each entrant submitted an essay in one of the six official United Nations languages, which could be neither the student’s first language nor in his/her primary language of instruction. More than 9,000 individuals from 165 countries took part in the initial phase of the contest. The official languages of the United Nations are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish.
ELS would like to congratulate the 60 winners of the Many Languages, One World 2016 essay contest.
The winners, organized by language group, are as follows:
| Arabic | ||
| NAME | University | Home Country |
| Abdul Gafoor Kunnathodi | Jawaharlal Nehru University | India |
| David Scot Chesnut | Defense Language Institute | United States |
| Gabriela Rossainzz Jardon | University of Oklahoma | United States |
| Guohong Liao | Xi`an International Studies University | China |
| Jamie Deanne Clegg | Brigham Young University | United States |
| Michelle Elizabeth Carney | University of Oklahoma | United States |
| Rachel Anne Lott | Brigham Young University | United States |
| Shabab Anwar | Jawaharlal Nehru University | India |
| Sophia Clara Smith Galer | Durham University | United Kingdom |
| Xiaowen Sha | Shanghai International Studies University | China |
| CHINESE | ||
| NAME | University | Home Country |
| Bolor-Erdene Mendbayar | Renmin University of China | Mongolia |
| Francisco Enrique Lopez de la Pena | New York University Abu Dhabi | Mexico |
| Léa Agathe Buatois | ENS de Lyon | France |
| Mahmud Abdul-Nazif | Jiangsu University | Ghana |
| Moldir Arapova | Heilongjiang University | Kazakhstan |
| Nham Thi Ngo | Tomsk Polytechnic University | Vietnam |
| Nishchit Pandey | Jiangsu University | Nepal |
| Oumarou Zougmore | Chinese Culture University | Burkina Faso |
| Qianying Zheng | Kobe City University of Foreign Studies | Japan |
| Ritika Philip | University of Pennsylvania | India |
| ENGLISH | ||
| NAME | University | Home Country |
| Amani Alfred Naburi | African Leadership University | Tanzania |
| Bahati Ernestine Hategekimana | Moi University | Kenya |
| Federico Wynter | Universidad ORT Uruguay | Uruguay |
| Jorge Federico Jaef | Universidad Nacional de Rosario | Argentina |
| Maria Jose Ramirez Cañas | University of Edinburgh | Chile |
| Ngoc Minh Tu | Texas Christian University | Vietnam |
| Rind AlHage | Université Saint-Joseph | Lebanon |
| Shazana Eliza Rohr | Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Germany |
| Tom Claudino dos Santos | Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina | Brazil |
| Venus Suleiman Akef | University of Cincinnati | Iraq |
| FRENCH | ||
| NAME | University | Home Country |
| Anna Khalonina | Saint-Petersburg State University | Russia |
| Aparna Clarke | University College London | United Kingdom |
| Elisa Capobianco | Università degli studi di Roma La Sapienza | Italy |
| Guillermo Antonio Vidarte | Universidad Nacional del Litoral - Facultad de Ciencias Jurídicas y Sociales | Argentina |
| Jose Ildo de Oliveira Junior | Universidade Federal de Sergipe | Brazil |
| Karina Aracely Gonzalez Sanchez | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | United States |
| Matthew Anthony Trojic | Universite Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3 Ecole Superieure d'Interpretes et de Traducteurs | United States |
| Melina Blostein | Facultad de Filosofía y Letras - Universidad de Buenos Aires | Argentina |
| Pooya Naderi | Université de Picardie Jules Verne | Iran |
| Sebastian Raphael Heinz | TU München | Germany |
| RUSSIAN | ||
| NAME | University | Home Country |
| Adrian Savcenco | State University of Moldova | Moldova |
| Cristina Crăciun | Hochschule Fulda University of Applied Sciences | Romania |
| Diana Marwan Khasawneh | Yarmouk University | Jordan |
| Ihor Kasianov | Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University | Ukraine |
| Kim Ngan Thi Le | Tomsk Polytechnic University | Vietnam |
| Mahinbonu Abdualievna Toshmatova | Khujand State University | Tajikistan |
| Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Petrenko | Odessa National Medical University | Ukraine |
| Sardor Khusanov | Tashkent Chemical-Technological Institute | Uzbekistan |
| Sheroz Juraev | Bologna University | Tajikistan |
| Yelyzaveta Dovhinka | National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy | Ukraine |
| SPANISH | ||
| NAME | University | Home Country |
| Anindita Roy | Jawaharlal Nehru University | India |
| Ellen Da Silva | Universidade de Brasília | Brazil |
| Karla Drpic | University of Essex | Croatia |
| Leonardo Alves | Universidade de Santa Cruz do Sul | Brazil |
| Luke McCluskey | Universidad Pontificia Comillas | Ireland |
| Sammy Duncan Musungu | Universidad Nacional Experimental Fransisco de Miranda | Kenya |
| Tallulah Matilda Doris Bur | University of Sydney | Australia |
| Tijana Čupić | Freie Universität | Serbia |
| Tom Okot | Earth University | Uganda |
| Xiaofeng Xu | University of Cambridge | China |
A press release about the selection has been uploaded in the six United Nations official languages to ManyLanguagesOneWorld.els.edu/PressKit. For more information about Many Languages, One World, visit: ManyLanguagesOneWorld.els.edu and follow the conversation on social media at #MLOW2016.