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UI student helping Afghan woman come to US to study physics

Friday, June 10, 2016
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/05/opinion/sunday/meet-sultana-the-talibans-wors…

Columnist Nick Kristof writes of University of Iowa student Emily Roberts' efforts to bring a 19-year old Afghan woman to the United States so she can study string theory and dark matter. 

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