Falls Church resident Tara Khanmalek Yazdi is studying abroad during the 2015-16 winter semester through the Bates College Junior Year Abroad program.

Khanmalek Yazdi, a 2013 graduate of the Field School in Washington, D.C., is studying in the United Kingdom. She is majoring in rhetoric and mathematics at Bates. About 60 percent of Bates juniors study abroad and Bates offers access to study-abroad programs in more than 60 countries.

Another Falls Church resident, Vivian Angrisani, is also studying in the United Kingdom this semester. Angrisani, a studio art major in Susquehanna University’s class of 2018, is studying in London.