See how Iowa students are building global career skills, effectively presenting international experiences to employers, and preparing for success abroad.

The UI Pomerantz Career Center offers the Hawkeye Experience Grant (HEG), which provides stipends to undergraduate students participating in applied learning experiences outside the classroom. Three students interning abroad during the summer were selected as HEG recipients.

Recent University of Iowa graduate Abby Fowler took an internship with Tokyo Broadcasting System in Japan this summer, thanks to a new international experiential learning opportunity created by Iowa alum Grier Patterson.

Jeffrey Ding (BA Chinese, BBA economics, BS political science ’16) seized international opportunities while at Iowa which led him to the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. Now an assistant professor of political science at George Washington University, Ding offers valuable advice for Iowa students with global aspirations.

Sophia Restiffe Favoretto came to the University of Iowa almost four years ago from Brazil, and she has taken advantage of all that Iowa has to offer.