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Finding love in Iowa City (and coming back for it)

Monday, July 18, 2016
Iowa City is a place of milestones for Wu Hao and Wu Ximeng. For the two University of Iowa graduates, the town is where they became enamored of the UI community, pursued their education, found love, and, later, returned to marry.

Delving into their roots

Thursday, July 14, 2016
A trip to Israel gave triplet siblings a new perspective.

Iowa campuses doing more to acclimate students from abroad

Wednesday, July 13, 2016
More robust orientations planned as signs point to a softening of international enrollments

University of Iowa asks students to list preferred pronouns

Tuesday, July 12, 2016
“At the University of Iowa, we are changing the way we ask for and use students’ names and pronouns of reference. These changes give students the agency to tell us what name and pronouns to use in our communication and interaction with them,” says Jodi Linley, an assistant professor in the College of Education

Sweets with twist surface in Iowa City

Tuesday, July 12, 2016
Two recent University of Iowa graduates are introducing Iowa City to China, Germany, Switzerland, and France through sweets.

Athlete spotlight: Brian Donatelli

Friday, July 1, 2016
Competing in the Olympic Trials is a BIG deal, but it is not even the biggest event taking place this summer for Brian Donnatelli.  Brian is an elite sprint distance swimmer, and he will be going to Cambodia as a member of the Peace Corps for over two years right after competing in the Olympic Trials this coming July.

Heading a long way from Dubuque

Wednesday, June 29, 2016
Amanda Kloser was born and raised in Dubuque, and she had no plans of leaving. It was not until a year and a half ago that the idea of moving away from her friends and family to a foreign country crossed her mind.

'Rock star' follows Buddhism to Japan

Monday, June 27, 2016
Gillson’s research will focus on how Japanese women use Pure Land Buddhism in their day-to-day lives. Her dissertation is titled “Women Creating the Pure Land: Socially Engaged Buddhism in Japan’s Jodo Sect.” She will be a visiting researcher at Bukkyo University.

Mandela Fellows land in Iowa City

Thursday, June 23, 2016
A group of emerging leaders from sub-Saharan Africa has traveled to Iowa City, and the will spend six weeks engaging and participating in entrepreneurial education at University of Iowa.

UI alumna awarded Global Grant scholarship to Dublin

Tuesday, June 21, 2016
Kristina McLaughlin (B.S. political science and B.A. economics ’11), native of Marion, Iowa, is the winner of a Rotary Global Grant scholarship to Dublin.