Two Grand Valley State University Students received prestigious scholarships to study a foreign language abroad in the 2012-13 academic year.

Meagan Roche, an anthropology major from Howell, Mich., will study Wolof, which is spoken in parts of Africa, at the West African Resource Center in Senegal.

Matt Brainovich, an international relations major from Rochester, Mich., will study Russian at Novosibirsk State University in Russia.

A third GVSU student, Shawn Wooster, was named as an alternate and will study Romanian at Babes-Bolyai University in Romania if another student cannot attend their program.