3/25/2011
Articles tagged with "in the news"
posted onMar22, 2011
By Michelle McConnaughey, The Daily Iowan
3/22/2011
In the Japanese school where James O’Hollearn works, students are now served milk and bread for lunch every day. Power outages across the region don’t allow other food to be refrigerated.
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posted onMar21, 2011
The following report appear in the Financial Express. The report focuses on a recent conference in Dhaka, Bangladesh, which Scott King attended. King is the assistant dean of International Programs for the International Student & Scholar Services.
There are currently seven students from Bangladesh studying at The University of Iowa.
3/18/2011
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posted onMar21, 2011
The following was featured in fyi, the UI faculty and staff newsletter. Sidel is also an International Studies faculty member.
3/21/2011
Law professor Mark Sidel is working closely with the United Nations Development Programme in Vietnam to develop legal and judicial reforms in a country where he’s no stranger.
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posted onMar14, 2011
This announcement appeared in Eastern Iowa Life.
3/15/2011
“Starving for Water: The Global Water Crisis” is the topic at the next “WorldCanvass” program Friday, March 25. The program will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. in a new location, Room 2780 of the University Capitol Centre. It is free and open to the public.
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posted onMar11, 2011
By B.A. Morelli, The Press-Citizen
3/11/2011
Local residents and students tried to contact loved ones affected by Friday’s deadly tsunami that rocked Japan and sent people scrambling in Hawaii and West Coast cities.
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posted onMar11, 2011
By Jeff Glaze, Des Moines Register
3/11/2011
Drake University spokeswoman Lisa Lacher reported that the school’s two students studying abroad in Japan are safe. Both students are studying in Osaka, which was relatively unscathed by the earthquake.
Drake also made contact with three of its four Japanese students, who have all indicated that their families are OK.
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posted onMar11, 2011
By Mark Carlson, SourceMedia Group News
3/11/2011
Shaw Akutsu lives in Iowa, he grew up in Iowa, and the only place he wants to be this spring break, is in Japan.
“I honestly just want to be over there, just so that I know where my parents are and that they are safe,” he said.
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posted onMar11, 2011
By Allie Wright, The Daily Iowan
3/11/2011
Harb Harb has traveled to the Middle East before to see how the health-care systems work.
And now, the fourth-year medical student wants to expose fellow students to those experiences.
Four medical students from the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine are planning to travel to the West Bank at the end of this month to explore the health-care system’s hospitals and refugee camps.
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posted onMar10, 2011
The following announcement appeared in The Gazette.
3/10/2011
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posted onMar10, 2011
By Cindy Hadish, SourceMedia Group News
3/10/2011
IOWA CITY — University of Iowa’s Carver College of Medicine has offered global programs throughout the world, but where four students will travel later this month is a first.
The fourth-year medical students will experience the first medical elective in the West Bank.
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posted onMar10, 2011
This announcement appeared in the Press-Citizen.
3/10/2011
Jirí Ellinger, head of the political section of the Czech Republic Embassy in Washington, D.C., will speak Friday on “The Czech Republic, the European Union and the United States in a Tumultuous World.” The talk and luncheon will be from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the International Programs Commons, 1117 University Capitol Center, and both are free and open to the public. No pre-registration is required, and the talk will begin at noon.
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posted onMar7, 2011
By Kendall McCabe, The Daily Iowan
See the original article, photo slideshow and a video here.
3/7/2011
Children of Arabic descent in the United States get teased and called such names as “Osama” and “terrorist” each year around the anniversary of 9/11, said Shams Ghoneim, the former president of the Consultation of Religious Communities of Johnson County.
It even happens in Iowa City.
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posted onMar3, 2011
This announcement appeared in Eastern Iowa Life.
3/2/2011
The University of Iowa European Studies Group (ESG) will welcome visiting scholar Michael Bess for a talk on the ethical and social implications of new technologies for human biological enhancement.
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posted onMar2, 2011
This announcement appeared in Eastern Iowa Life.
3/2/2011
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