Study Abroad will host an information session on its Wells College: Lorenzo de Medici program in Florence, Italy, on Wednesday, February 28, from 2:30-3:30 p.m. in 1117 University Capitol Centre. 

At 5 p.m. today at MERGE, archivists, historians, and scholars will discuss the importance of archives in preserving cultural history during World Canvass: Against Amnesia — Archives, Evidence, and Social Justice.

The UI’s 16 Fulbright students rank it No. 15th nationally among research universities — its highest ever placement, tying it with Stanford and Columbia universities, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education’s new rankings released this week. It demonstrates marked and continued improvement over its placement at No. 30 last year and No. 117 five years ago.

For the third year in a row, the university will host up-and-coming professionals from Africa.

The University of Iowa has again been named a top producer of Fulbright students—this time for 2017–18, with 16 recipients—marking the third consecutive year the university achieved the elite ranking.

Two University of Iowa undergraduates have been awarded the prestigious Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, to study or intern abroad this summer.

My class of twenty-four was split up into groups of four and five and sent out to different special needs schools in the Durban area. We went there to witness the structure of the institution, the funding allocated, and talk to the faculty about their experience working there. 

Join the University of Iowa Japanese Program and the Department of Cinematic Arts for a series of film screenings with Japanese filmmakers Mori Tatsuya (FAKE), Nakamura Takayuki (ZEN AND BONES), and Kana Tomoko (HUG). 

“Against Amnesia: Archives, Evidence, and Social Justice,” this year’s Provost’s Global Forum/Obermann Humanities Symposium, upends any notion of moldering archives. From March 1–3, 2018, scholars, artists, activists, and archivists from diverse disciplines will share research and personal stories about the ways they have used archival material—corporate records, legal affidavits, newspaper clippings, genetic material, climate change data, and our own personal technology—to reinterpret the past, demand justice, and inspire change.

The Daily Iowan Editorial Board calls on the Legislature to reflect on how strong state universities signify a strong Iowa.