Congratulations to IS Students Sam Silker and Cecilla Dugger on winning prizes in the 2020 Korean Speech Contest.

Congratulations to IS Student Lexy Winecke! Her essay, “A Call for Human Rights in the US Prison System,” was selected for the 2020 Weston International Human Rights Essay Prize.

Senéad Short, who will receive a BA in international studies from the University of Iowa this May, is the winner of a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship Award to Taiwan for 2020-21.

International Studies majors Holly Harris and Joseph Sailor were named Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program awardees. Even though CLS is suspending its 2020 summer programs, we still believe our UI finalists deserve a shout out for this prestigious accomplishment and all of their hard work.