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The following is a University of Iowa News Release
Aug. 30, 2011
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posted onAug24, 2011
By Joan Staak, The Daily Iowan
8/25/2011
A year and seven months after Haiti was devastated by a 7.0 magnitude earthquake, public awareness of the poverty-stricken country has shrunk.
Dr. Paul Farmer, a cofounder of the humanitarian organization Partners in Health and a Harvard professor, is working to change that.
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posted onAug19, 2011
By Chastity Dillard, The Daily Iowan
8/19/2011
Sitting at her Mayflower kitchen table, adorned with a Hawkeye-symbol tablecloth, Yoon Kyung Lee, laughs while chatting with new friend, Effy Lee.
Both South Korean, the 20-year-olds instantly shared a bond as newly arriving international students for the fall semester.
“It’s not my first time coming to the U.S.,” Yoon Lee said, who at age 15 was a foreign-exchange student in Texas, “so adjusting here isn’t a big deal for me. The time difference is worse.”
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posted onAug17, 2011
Fred Smith from the University of Iowa has lived in India for 16 years. He has seen ‘all kinds of corruption’ and is now doing all he can to end the social stigma
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posted onAug16, 2011
Goal is to encourage students to interact, overcome shyness
By Erica Pennington, The Gazette
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posted onAug16, 2011
By Lee Hermiston, The Press-Citizen
8/15/2011
This week, hundreds of incoming international University of Iowa students will take English tests, meet with their academic advisers and attend sessions on American culture.
But first, they learned to do-si-do.
For at least 15 years, a square dance has been an integral part of the international student orientation. Hundreds of students filled the Iowa Memorial Union’s Main Lounge to take part in the festivities.
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posted onAug8, 2011
The following article spotlights Dave Bess, a UI graduate who studied abroad in Italy and went on to form the band Public Property. Bess explains how traveling and studying at the UI and abroad influenced his music.
By Stephanie Wise, The Iowa City Press-Citizen
8/8/2011
Dave Bess has a chronic case of wanderlust.
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posted onAug8, 2011
By Allie Grasgreen, Inside Higher Ed
8/8/2011
WASHINGTON — One of the lesser-known factors in why East Asian students have trouble seeking counseling lies not in the Chinese or Taiwanese culture, nor in the upbringing of these students, nor in one of the numerous myths and stereotypes that follow them around campus.
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posted onAug2, 2011
Chinese students are coming to study at the University of Iowa in increasing numbers. In part two of this story, Guannan Huang spoke with some of these students to find out the difficulties they’ve had adapting to American culture.
By Stephen Schmidt, Iowa City Patch
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posted onAug1, 2011
Chinese students are coming to study at the University of Iowa in increasing numbers. In part one of this story, Guannan Huang speaks with some of these students to find out why, and what they think of Iowa City.
By Guannan Huang, Iowa City Patch
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posted onJul29, 2011
By Rob Daniel, The Press-Citizen
7/29/2011
Carnivale in Trinidad and other parts of the Caribbean is a mixture of different cultures coming together to celebrate, bringing together elements such as French foxes, Spanish horses and African spiders.
Another part of the party can be a Chinese dragon, which was toward the front of a long parade of children around the Iowa City Public Library and the pedestrian mall and included Luke Becker, 10, of Iowa City, and his sisters, Emma, 9, and Cora, 6.
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posted onJul18, 2011
By Chastity Dillard, The Daily Iowan
7/18/2011
The Rev. Mark Kiyimba was forced to leave his Ugandan home in March for his safety.
The gay-rights activist, now in the United States, stood before a captivated church crowd Sunday morning to discuss Uganda’s gay rights issues.
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