Delaney Orewiler (BS psychology, French ‘24) is the winner of a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Award to Morocco for 2025-26.

Marissa Good (BS political science, sociology, and ethics & public policy ‘23) is the winner of a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Award to Belgium for 2025-26.

Ryann Hubbart (BS economics, BA international studies ‘23) is the winner of a Fulbright Study/Research Grant to Belgium for 2025-26. 

Felipe Herrmann (BS psychology ‘23) is the winner of a Fulbright Study/Research Grant to Spain for 2025-26.

Paras Bassuk (BS psychology ‘25) is the winner of a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Award to Spain for 2025-26. 

University of Iowa sophomore Kara Juhl, who has never traveled outside the U.S., will focus on her Spanish proficiency in Santiago, Chile for the fall 2025 semester.

The scholarship is intended to support students who study abroad with the intent to serve as Global Access Ambassadors upon their return to the UI campus.

Eltayeb Ahmed, Natalie Kehrli, and Isabella Rivera share how the grant gave them opportunities to grow outside the classroom.

“Seeing a local community form between Argentine natives and foreigners from around the world, and participating in this exchange, I learned so much about the possibilities of cultural exchange."

Brenda Gao, a University of Iowa student studying psychology, from Iowa City, Iowa, has been awarded a 2025 U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) to study Japanese this summer in Okayama, Japan.

Global Access Ambassador Grace Ziomek, a double major in English & creative writing and theatre arts, participated in the IES Dublin Writers Program in fall 2024.

Emma Anderson, a University of Iowa student studying international relations and political science, from Boone, Iowa, has been awarded a 2025 U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) to study Persian this summer in Dushanbe, Tajikistan.