With the help of two international funding awards, Iowa alumna Kathleen Maris Paltrineri turned her academic research on an award-nominated Nordic poetry collection into a published literary translation.

University of Iowa hosted the Mandela Washington Fellows in Iowa City for a ninth year, as part of a U.S. Department of State initiative that brings young African leaders to the United States for academic and leadership training.

University of Iowa student and Korean department ambassador Arieanna Grage, who grew up in rural Iowa, has been awarded the competitive Freeman-ASIA Award to study abroad in Seoul, South Korea, as part of her Korean studies minor.