Ponseti International Association (PIA) has designated June 3 as World Clubfoot Day. The date was chosen to commemorate the birthdate of Dr. Ignacio Ponseti, (1914-2009) the developer of the Ponseti Method to treat clubfoot.

Four University of Iowa undergraduate students and 20 UI graduate students have received Stanley Awards for International Research to conduct research abroad or pursue learning activities in international studies that are not available on the UI campus.

Thomas Langer, a recent UI graduate with a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies with an emphasis in human rights, traveled to India last summer to explore the role and impact of new social media upon the Tibetan diaspora living in exile.

Chinese author Mo Yan (photo, right), a 2004 participant of the UI International Writing Program (IWP), recently assumed the post of chairing the newly-established Beijing Normal University International Writing Center.

The Fulbright U.S. Student Program has just announced that University of Iowa graduate student Briana Smith has received a Fulbright award for 2013-14 to conduct research in Germany.

Two University of Iowa alumnae have been awarded Fulbright U.S. Student Program grants to conduct research internationally in 2013-14. This year's UI recipients are Margaret Ross and Rebecca McCray.

Cristina Ortiz, a UI doctoral student in anthropology who moved to Columbus Junction, Iowa, for her research, discusses the tensions that have transpired as a result of a large population of Chin Burmese moving to Columbus Junction and competing for jobs with Latinos.

Fatih Yildiz, the Turkish consul general in Chicago, is visiting the University of Iowa campus and local community to strengthen relationships and expand trade in Iowa.

Two UI students, Kyra Seay and Tess Haverkamp, recently traveled to China on the Rivers as Bridges program that examines the sister-river relationship of the Mississippi River in the U.S. and the Yangtze River in China.

The Get to Know series asks University of Iowa faculty, staff, and students a few questions about their work and their outside interests. Today we visit with senior BSN student Jeannette George.

A 10-member delegation from one of Russia’s premier research institutions visited the University of Iowa this past week to gather ideas to help improve its growing university. The visit was hosted primarily by the UI College of Education's Belin-Blank Center.

The UI Center for Human Rights announces the opening of its annual Burns H. Weston International Human Rights Essay Prize, which honors the work of UI students and the lifetime work of Professor Burns H. Weston of the College of Law.