Roxanna Curto received the Global Curriculum Development Award, which supported her travel to Europe to develop a new French tourism course at Iowa that takes students on an “imaginary journey” through French-speaking Europe.

Acacia Roberts has been awarded a Fulbright U.S. Student Award for 2015-16. Roberts, of Iowa City, IA, graduated from the University of Iowa in December 2014 with a B.A. in linguistics and French. She will be putting her degrees and her Arabic language skills to use as an English Teaching Assistant in Morocco this August.