Friends of International Students, a community-based program that connects incoming international students at UI with local families and friends, will host a free welcome picnic Sept. 7.

Experience the Irish Writing Program through the eyes of the program's director and some of the UI students who participated in the summer 2014 study abroad program by watching this video.

Alyas Widita, a graduate student in the University of Iowa’s School of Urban and Regional Planning, will be provided with an in-depth understanding of life in the United States, while receiving opportunities to strengthen his skills in leadership, social entrepreneurship, and communication.

A Ukrainian-Russian conflict in recent months has turned into a “full-scale civil war,” and reports that an unassociated passenger plane may have been shot down Thursday could add fuel to the clash and push it beyond the region, says UI professor Art Durnev.

International Programs (IP) at the UI announces a new partnership for IP’s television and radio series WorldCanvass; Starting in September, WorldCanvass will be held once a month on Tuesday nights at FilmScene, a state-of-the-art theater located on Iowa City’s pedestrian mall.

Naowarut Charoenca can’t help but appreciate the value of relationships—those developed over a lifetime, as well as the new ones she is cultivating with colleagues as part of a three-month visiting professorship in the University of Iowa College of Public Health.

UI physician Christopher Buresh, who was awarded the 2014 Individual Governor's Volunteer award, visits Haiti every three months or so carrying out the work of the organization he founded, Community Health Initiative-Haiti.

A trip to Mexico inspired UI international studies major Blake Rupe to develop an app that encourages people to do something about litter.

The University of Iowa Celebrating Cultural Diversity Festival has a new website, which features a "Save the Date" message for this year's festival on Oct. 5 in Hubbard Park on the UI campus.

Quad-Cities businesswoman Ginny Wilson-Peters will teach her UI MBA leadership development class in Italy this summer: "The good thing about the leadership model I use is it really is relative around the globe."

Amanda Bartlett, a UI freshman majoring in journalism and mass communication from Pleasant Hill, Iowa, shares her experiences in the summer study abroad program, Crime and Justice in Britain, where she is gaining insight into America’s criminal justice system by studying its British roots.

From penning award-winning television scripts to developing alternative energy solutions for third-world countries, UI alumni are making their marks across the spectrum.