Breadcrumb Home 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.