UI International Programs' Japan Outreach Coordinator Yume Hidaka helps Van Allen Elementary students, from left, Nile Latcham, Cole Piercy and Molly Cox, with folding origami during the school's International Day on Monday in North Liberty. (Press-Citizen / Matthew Holst)
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By Samantha Gentry, The Daily Iowan
12/7/2010
A conductor who previously had touched the community through her music now reaches Iowa City through promoting the cultures of those outside of the United States.
This is a guest opinion from the Iowa City Press-Citizen by UI history professor H. Glenn Penny
12/7/2010
By Nina Earnest, The Daily Iowan
12/2/2010
Despite harsh economic times, University of Iowa students are continuing to find the means to study overseas.
Nationwide, the number of students who studied abroad for credit dropped slightly in 2008-09—the first time such a decrease has occurred since the Open Doors Report on International Educational Exchange first released numbers 25 years ago.
Nina Earnest is an International Studies B.A. candidate.
12/2/2010
Daily Iowan reporter Nina Earnest has been awarded second place in the 2010 Hearst Foundation feature-writing contest.
She was recognized for her work on an article “Education on hyper drive,” published Oct. 28, which told the story of four gifted siblings between the ages of 10 and 16 enrolled at the University of Iowa.
Earnest spent six weeks meeting with the eldest sibling, Gohar Manzar — a first-year biomedical-engineering doctoral student — and her family.
This spotlight from The Daily Iowan features Evelyn Cardenas, a UI student working toward degrees in business administration and international studies. Originally from Guatemala, Cardenas has studied in Japan, traveled to Mexico and participated in a Haiti relief fundraiser, among many other community service projects.
By Amy Tiffany, The Daily Iowan
12/1/2010
By Brian Morelli, The Iowa City Press-Citizen
11/29/2010
Interest in the Peace Corps is increasing at University of Iowa, the university’s Peace Corps representative said.
So far this fall, 123 people have attended information sessions, local representative Meredith Mahy Gall said. The next information session is at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 1 in the International Commons of the University Capitol Centre.
This is an excerpt of an article that appeared in The New York Times. See the full article here.
By Jeffrey Gettleman
11/27/2010
NYAL, Sudan — Joseph Gatyoung Khan made a vow, uttered in the back seat of a Land Cruiser on a very bumpy road, as he headed home for the first time in 22 years: I will not cry.
By Brian Morelli, The Iowa City Press-Citizen
11/29/2010
A semester studying abroad turned into much more for a University of Iowa student who received a 2010 award recognizing academic accomplishments while studying overseas.
By Nina Earnest, The Daily Iowan
11/29/2010
Bill Clinton. Edwin Hubble. George Stephanopoulos.
A 20-year-old University of Iowa senior is joining their ranks.
Renugan Raidoo is now a Rhodes Scholar.
The Rhodes Scholarship enables students to study for two or three years at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom on a full-ride scholarship.
By Brian Morelli, Iowa City Press-Citizen
11/24/2010
Iowa’s public universities are in the import-export business when it comes to international studies, and overall, business is good.
The state’s public universities have been sending more and more students to study abroad while nationally there has been a decline, and the number of international students enrolling at the University of Iowa, Iowa State University and the University of Northern Iowa is increasing at a greater rate than the national average.
Renugan Raidoo spent summer 2010 in Mainz, Germany, on an internship arranged by the German Academic Exchange Service, called RISE (Research Internships in Science & Engineering). The program pairs an undergraduate student with a German Ph.D. student to assist in doctoral research.
See Raidoo’s blog from his time abroad: http://abenteuerergeschichten.blogspot.com/.
By Rob Daniel, The Iowa City Press-Citizen
11/22/2010
A senior at the University of Iowa has been named a Rhodes Scholar and will study at the University of Oxford in England next year.
This announcement appeared in the Iowa City Press-Citizen on Nov. 19, 2010.
University of Iowa student Evelyn Cardenas has been awarded the $10,000 Pearson Prize for Higher Education.
The award, given by the Pearson Foundation, recognized “exemplary students who are distinguishing themselves through commitment to community service” while continuing their studies, according to a news release.
11/18/2010
International Programs held its annual Student Funding Expo on Wednesday, Nov. 17, as part of International Education Week. At the open house, students could learn about funding opportunities for international research, language learning and more, and past award recipients were available to share their stories.
The below photo by Ricky Bahner was featured in The Daily Iowan’s “Today’s Photos” Nov. 18.
