Andrew Huebner (’19 M.A.), a doctoral student in history, became the first UNT graduate student to be named a Boren Fellow. The highly competitive Boren Fellowship, funded by the National Security Education Program, is open to U.S. graduate students and funds research and language study in “world regions critical to U.S. interests.” Huebner is spending a full academic year learning Russian at Russian Language Academy in Latvia, as well as conducting archival research in the Baltic Sea region for his dissertation examining how American humanitarian relief operations in the Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) during the years immediately following WWI played a key role in the rise of new nation-states and the development of humanitarian relief. As a Boren Fellow, Huebner will work for at least one year in a federal agency after completing his doctoral degree at UNT.