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
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 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 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.
By Drew Davis, The Daily Iowan
11/17/2010
Almost 300 junior-high students sat in a ballroom rapt with attention. Nearly every one raised hands eagerly to ask the speaker a question.
By Rob Daniel, Iowa City Press-Citizen
11/17/2010
CORALVILLE — People with disabilities are able to work in a paying job, run in a marathon and dance, said Scott Gill, president of the Iowa State Association of Independent Living to a group of middle school students.
“Do you think a person who is blind could climb Mount Everest?” he said before switching on a video about Erik Weihenmeyer, a blind man who reached the peak of Mount Everest in 2001.
By Evan Clark, The Daily Iowan
11/17/2010
“Love the art in yourself, not yourself in the art.”
Famous Russian theater director and founder of Method acting Konstantin Stanislavski wasn’t talking directly to University of Iowa graduate Emily Larson when he uttered those famous words, but he might as well have been.
By Josh O’Leary, Iowa City Press-Citizen
11/16/2010
Sixth-graders from Iowa City’s Longfellow and Hoover elementary schools and students from North Central Junior High in North Liberty will be among the 300 middle-schoolers thinking globally today during the University of Iowa College of Education’s International Day.
By Molly Rossiter, The Gazette
11/16/2010
IOWA CITY – American Muslims are facing ‘a rising tide of Islamophobia’ that is worse than it was post-Sept. 11, panelists said last night.
