Kyler Johnson, who will receive a BA in secondary English education from the University of Iowa in May 2023, is the winner of a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship Award to Brazil for 2023-24. 

Dawn Thomas, who will receive an MAT in secondary English education from the UI in May 2023, is the winner of a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship Award to Israel. Thomas is the UI’s first student to receive a Fulbright award to Israel. 

Olivia Dunn, who will receive an MA in linguistics from the UI in May 2023, is the winner of a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship Award to Morocco for 2023-24. 

Neuroscience student Ashley Lie-Atjam is the winner of a Graduate Study Fulbright/Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Award for 2023-24. 

Katherine Kustes is the winner of a Fulbright Community-Based Combined Award to Austria for 2023-24, the first UI student recipient of this prestigious award.

Would you like to teach English, study, or do research abroad for an academic year at no cost? Learn how at the 10th Annual Fulbright Week.

Seventeen UI students and alumni were chosen from about 10,000 Fulbright Award applicants nationwide to serve as representatives of the U.S. Department of State.

Fulbright researcher from Cedar Rapids now living in Norway

The recipient of multiple student funding research awards while at Iowa, Briana Smith attributes many of her successes to her time at Iowa and the support she received from faculty and staff mentors.

Seventeen University of Iowa students and alumni were chosen from about 10,000 Fulbright Award applicants nationwide to serve as representatives of the U.S. State Department to teach English abroad and to undertake public health research and creative writing projects in 16 countries during the 2022-23 academic year.

Megan Lederman, who received a BA with a double major in English and creative writing (emphasis in Native American literature) and French from the University of Iowa in May 2019, is the winner of a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship Award to Vietnam for 2022-23.

Greta Becker, a UI Carver College of Medicine student, is the winner of a Fulbright Study/Research grant in Public Health to Vietnam for 2022-23.