My name is Nazira Coury and I am a fourth-year student majoring in International Relations, and minoring in Latin American Studies and Arabic. During the summer of 2017, I had the incredible opportunity to study abroad for nine weeks in the very hot, but very beautiful city of Fes, Morocco. As a first generation student, I am the first person in my family to go to college and now, I am also the first in my family to have studied abroad.

Study Abroad will host an information session on its Studio Art Centers International (SACI) program in Florence, Italy, on Friday, March 2, from 12:30-1:30 p.m. in 71 Schaeffer Hall. 

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).