July 26th, 2019 University of Iowa Professor of English Jonathan Wilcox has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar Grant for work on his project, “Viking-Age North-Sea Culture: Exploring Medieval Connections between Iceland and England.

July 28th, 2019 Students pose in front of the Acropolis of Athens In a restaurant in Greece, 18 students stood and offered words of gratitude in respect for Eleni, archaeologist and tour guide, who accompanied the group throughout their stay.

UI graduate Sylvia Dean sat down with International Programs recently to talk about her upcoming Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship Award to Taiwan for 2019-20.     Watch the interview with Dean to learn more.

An embedded tutor pilot program shows promising early resultsEvie Swink, a Success in Rhetoric (SIR) tutor in Wayne Anderson’s rhetoric class, works with small groups of students on an in-class exercise. Photo by Tim Schoon.

New alcohol harm reduction plan outlines additional strategies to reduce high-risk drinking, drug use    BY: OFFICE OF STRATEGIC COMMUNICATION High-risk undergraduate drinking has decreased significantly at the University of Iowa due to its 10-year commitment to alcohol harm reduction.

BY: OFFICE OF STRATEGIC COMMUNICATION   Montserrat (Montse) Fuentes, dean and professor in the College of Humanities & Sciences at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia, has been named the University of Iowa’s new executive vice president and provost. She will begin on June 28.

UI graduate Alex Bare sat down with International Programs recently to talk about his Critical Language Scholarship program experience in Oman during the summer of 2018. Watch the interview with Bare to learn more.

BY: BRUCE HARRELD  |  2019. 05. 09  |  10:07 AM Bruce Harreld Graduates, as you begin your next chapter, remember that one of the most important contributions you can make is to your community.

Countries highlighted in yellow are the destinations of the UI’s 2019–20 Fulbright winners. The Fulbright Program is the flagship international educational exchange program sponsored by the U. S. government.

by Tiffany Pennamon Since 1968, the Afro-American Cultural Center at the University of Iowa has served as a welcoming and empowering space for the university’s Black students, faculty and staff to find community, engage in activism, receive support and culturally engage with others on and off campus.