Stanley Award for International Research

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Info sessions on funding opportunities to study languages or conduct research abroad

Thursday, October 2, 2025
Upcoming events include workshops on the Critical Language Scholarship (CLS), Boren Awards, and Stanley Awards for International Research, offering guidance on applications, funding, and essay writing.
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Examining rural life in Portugal during the Modern Period

Wednesday, September 24, 2025
As a recipient of the Stanley Award for International Research, second-year doctoral student in anthropology Shannon Casey, traveled to Portugal this summer to excavate ceramic material at Agroal, an archaeological site in central Portugal.
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UI alumna’s Fulbright journey in Norway leads to published poetry translation

Tuesday, August 26, 2025
With the help of two international funding awards, Iowa alumna Kathleen Maris Paltrineri turned her academic research on an award-nominated Nordic poetry collection into a published literary translation.
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Take your research abroad with a Stanley Award - upcoming 2024 info sessions

Thursday, September 5, 2024
The Stanley Undergraduate and Graduate Awards for International Research are given annually to outstanding University of Iowa students for the pursuit of research and learning activities outside of the United States.
Stanley award winner Emily Wieder

In the news: Risk-taking, resistance, and surrealism

Wieder, a third-year doctoral candidate in the French and Francophone World Studies program is a recipient of the 2024 Stanley Award for International Research. In the fall, Wieder will travel to Paris to conduct archival research for her dissertation.
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Take your research abroad with a Stanley Award - upcoming 2023 info sessions

Tuesday, September 19, 2023
The Stanley Undergraduate and Graduate Awards for International Research are given annually to outstanding University of Iowa students for the pursuit of research and learning activities outside of the United States.
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Meet the recipients of the 2023 Stanley Award for International Research 

Monday, April 17, 2023
Stanley Awards for International Research are given annually to outstanding University of Iowa students in all academic fields for the pursuit of foreign research, learning activities in international studies, and career interests abroad.
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Meet the recipients of the 2022 Stanley Award for International Research

Thursday, April 14, 2022
Meet the recipients of the 2022 Stanley Award for International Research

UI grad student awarded Fulbright to study Korean book and paper making methods

Tuesday, May 12, 2015
Steph Rue, of Cleveland, OH, has been awarded a Fulbright grant to conduct research in Seoul, South Korea for 2015-16. Rue, who will graduate this May with an M.F.A. in Book Arts/Center for the Book from the University of Iowa, will focus her research on early monastic paper and book production methods, as well as the historical techniques and the spiritual underpinnings of Korean bookmaking.

UI student awarded Fulbright grant to teach English in Taiwan

Friday, May 1, 2015
Brett Burk, of Oskaloosa, IA, has been awarded a Fulbright U.S. Student Award to pursue an English Teaching Assistantship in Taiwan for 2015-16. Burk graduated from the University of Iowa in December 2014 with a B.A. in linguistics and an emphasis in TESL (Teaching English as a Second Language).