Image: Congratulations to Albina Khabibulina, Graduate Teaching Assistant in Russian, who was recently awarded the NFMLTA/NCOLCTL Graduate Students Research Support Award. Instituted in 2014 by the The National Federation of Modern Language Teachers’ Associations (NFMLTA) and the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages (NCOLCTL), this award supports graduate student research in the fields of applied linguistics and language education with small grants focused on the teaching and learning of less commonly taught languages.