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.

Talking to teens can lead to safer drivingIowa researchers: More parental communication benefits young driversAn Iowa study finds that training parents how to improve communication with their children about safe driving reduced the probability of future unsafe driving incidents by as much as 80 percent, especially when combined with onboard…

Name: Zhiting ("Jack") Feng Hometown: Lanzhou, China Field of study: double major in biochemistry and ethics & public policy Campus Leadership & Involvement Highlights Undergraduate research assistant, MacGillivray Lab At-large senator, University of Iowa Student Government Undergraduate research assistant, Eugenics Legacies Lab Early Scholar, UI Certificate in Clinical & Translational Science Research member, Health Advancement Equity Lab Ambassador, Iowa Center for…

Ana Arzate (BA French, international studies ’17) completed a global internship in Paris, France, as an undergraduate student at the University of Iowa. Arzate lives in Hiawatha, Iowa, where she works at Channel Fusion as a bilingual client relationship associate.

University of Iowa international studies major (East Asian studies and international business) Angel Trachta, a native of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, has been awarded a 2019 U. S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship (CLS).

University of Iowa economics and art major Mark Schoen from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, has been awarded a 2019 U. S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) and will travel to Malang, Indonesia, to study Bahasa, the official language of the most populous Muslim country.