Evan Sparling '08 (Russian and History) spoke about his year in Kyrgyzstan as a Fulbright scholar studying Kyrgyz national identity, teaching at Kyrgyz National University, and learning to appreciate local favorites such as mares' milk (think runny alcoholic yogurt). Evan currently works for Pacific Environment, an environmental non-profit based in San Francisco, where he coordinates their salmon preservation programs on Russia's Kamchatka peninsula.

You can read more about Evan's experiences at Dickinson and abroad here: http://www.dickinson.edu/academics/programs/russian/content/Alumni/