Sarah Nunez, who will receive a BA in social work from the University of Iowa in May 2022, is the winner of a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship Award to Mexico for 2022-23

International studies and Chinese major Marissa Schooley of Allerton, Iowa, has been awarded a 2022 U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) to study Mandarin this summer.

Alia Mnayer, who will receive a BA in English and creative writing from the University of Iowa in May 2022, is the winner of a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship Award to Morocco for 2022-23

Andrea Childs, who will receive a BA in English and English education from the University of Iowa in May 2022, is the winner of a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship Award to Bulgaria for 2022-23

Would you like to teach English, study, or do research abroad for an academic year at no cost? Join International Programs staff, new UI grantees, and recent UI Fulbright alumni for a week of virtual events to help you learn more about the Fulbright U.S. Student Program! The 9th Annual Fulbright Week will take place April 11-15, 2022. Each session will provide different information and will have a Q&A period.

McKenzie Toma, who will receive an MFA in creative writing (poetry) from the University of Iowa in May 2022, is the winner of a Fulbright Study/Research grant in Creative Writing to Romania for 2022-23

Adam Beaser, who will receive an MFA in fiction from the University of Iowa in May 2022, is the winner of a Fulbright Study/Research grant in Creative Writing to Hungary for 2022-23

In summer 2019 and fall 2019, UI student Ala Mohamed studied abroad twice in China with support from a Stanley Merit-Based Scholarship.

University of Iowa international studies (international communications and Islamic & Middle Eastern studies) and French student Lauren Philips of Council Bluffs, Iowa, has been awarded a 2022 U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) to study Persian. 

University of Iowa graduate student at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop Nitya Rayapati of Austin Texas, has been awarded a 2022 U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) to study abroad this summer for an intensive Urdu language program.

University of Iowa biochemistry student Grant Welk of Ames, Iowa, has been awarded a 2022 U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) to study in India this summer for an intensive Hindi language program.

University of Iowa English and creative writing student Kyler Johnson of West Des Moines, Iowa, has been awarded a 2022 U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) to study in Florianópolis, Brazil, this summer for an intensive Portuguese language program.