Tsering Lhamo has received the Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) award to study Nepali language. The Foreign Language Areas Studies award provides financial support to study a foreign language with tuition, travel support, and living stipend during the summer months. Tsering will be enrolled in 8-weeks summer intensive Nepali language program at the Rangjung Yeshe Institute in Kathmandu, Nepal. Tsering plans to improve her Nepali language skills through the FLAS fellowship to use for her eventual fieldwork in Nepali-speaking Sikkim, India. Tsering鈥檚 doctoral research examines the embodied experiences of caterpillar fungus harvesters and traders in the Sikkim Himalayas.听