Galal Walker and Mari Noda, professors of East Asian Languages and Literatures at OSU, successfully competed for a new three-year Department of State grant that provides more than $3.2 million per year in funding to administer and implement the Critical Language Scholarship Program in East Asia. Ohio State is the only university in the country to receive this award. The Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, in cooperation with the National East Asian Languages Center, will establish four intensive language institutes in partner universities in China; and one each in universities in Japan, Korea and Indonesia.