Creative and research pursuits take graduate students in the University of Iowa School of Art and Art History near and far.

A water sustainability course offered through the University of Iowa’s India Winterim—a three-week, field-based program for undergraduate and graduate students—will expand its reach thanks to a U.S.-India 21st Century Knowledge Initiative Award granted through the United States-India Educational Foundation.

Heather Cook, mother of four, wife to Andrew Cook, full-time employee at AAB, and online management student through the Tippie College of Business, clearly has a demanding schedule. Even so, she managed to incorporate a study abroad experience to China with the support of her family, scholarship funding (Ann Morse Study Abroad Scholarship and Nancy Hauserman Global Scholarship), and short-term study abroad offerings available to UI students. Cook recently returned from Beijing and Shanghai after participating in the two-week Business and Culture in China course led by Dr. Bob Walker. Cook recently shared some of her study abroad reflections with us.

From her home base at the University of Iowa, Jeanine Abrons uses her unique talents, skills and connections to serve health needs in Iowa and abroad.

When I say I’m “out here in the desert,” I’m not kidding. Someone told me the last time it rained was 10 months ago, but it HAS sprinkled a couple times. All the mosques are constantly praying for rain. Ibri is located just outside the largest sand desert in the world, the Empty Quarter, and as one of my instructors put it, “Ibri is famous for the color brown.”

Translator Jennifer Croft shares prize with Polish author

UI alumna Abby Peeters (BA studio arts, BA social work, certificate in American Indian and Native Studies) has had her eye on international work since she was a young girl, watching her father travel the world as a production assistant for a video production company.

For the third consecutive year, UI’s John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center (JPEC) welcomes 25 Mandela Washington Fellows from Sub-Saharan African countries to the University of Iowa to learn about U.S. entrepreneurship and promote international dialogue.

Chai addict, Ramayana translator, Sholay lover, this scholar says his love for the country could be because of past-life samskaras

Seven countries are affected, five with mostly Muslim populations.