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IUP Office of International Education Celebrates the World With Unity Day, Oct. 24

The Office of International Education at Indiana University of Pennsylvania will hold International Unity Day on October 24 from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. in the Hadley Union Building at IUP. This event is free and open to all.

• 16 October 2025

Education Abroad Policy

The Education Abroad Policy, published annually by the Office of International Education, outlines the procedures, responsibilities, and support structures for all IUP-affiliated international academic experiences. It applies to students, faculty, staff, alumni, and volunteers, and covers program types such as faculty-led trips, study abroad, internships, and service-learning abroad.

• Office of International Education
• 15 October 2025

IUP to Host International Fulbright Recipients for Tenth Year

Indiana University of Pennsylvania will welcome 22 educators from 13 countries August 13 through December 10 as part of the university’s selection as a host for the Fulbright Distinguished Awards in Teaching Program for International Teachers.

• 04 August 2025

International Recipes Wanted to Celebrate IUP’s 150th Anniversary

The Office of International Education is excited to create an international cookbook to celebrate IUP’s 150th anniversary, and we need your help! The OIE wants recipe submissions from IUP students, faculty, staff, and alumni.

• 03 June 2025

International Student and ALI Instructor Krasova to Speak at Spring 2025 Commencement Ceremony

International student and American Language Institute instructor Alexandra Krasova spoke at commencement and is the recipient of the Graduate Student Outstanding Research Award, the IUP Outstanding Leader Award, the Promising Future Interdisciplinary Researcher Award, and the Teaching Associate Faculty Recognition Award.

• 08 May 2025

IUP Honored for 75 Years of International Education

Indiana University of Pennsylvania has earned the Open Doors 75 Seal of Excellence for its 75 years of collaboration with the international Open Doors program.

• 19 November 2024

Office of International Education Celebrates Cultural Diversity During Unity Day, Oct. 25

The Office of International Education at Indiana University of Pennsylvania will hold its annual International Unity Day on October 25 from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. in IUP’s Hadley Union Building. This event is free and open to the community.

• 22 October 2024

IUP Celebrating International Education Week with Naturalization Ceremony

A total of 100 new American citizens will be welcomed during an October 11 naturalization ceremony at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

• 08 October 2024

Education Abroad Policy

This news item contains the procedures utilized by IUP personnel when creating and/or participating in an official Education Abroad activity.

• Office of International Education
• 04 October 2024

Associate Vice President for International Education and Global Engagement Selected for Award for Excellence

Indiana University of Pennsylvania’s Associate Vice President for International Education and Global Engagement and Executive Director of the American Language Institute Michele Petrucci has been honored for excellence by the Pennsylvania Council for International Education.

• 16 September 2024

IUP Receives Funding to Host International Fulbright Recipients for Ninth Year

Indiana University of Pennsylvania welcomed 21 educators from 14 countries, who will complete professional development coursework at IUP and be guest teachers in the Indiana Area School District and in the Pittsburgh Public School system, as part of the university’s selection as a host for the Fulbright Distinguished Awards in Teaching Program for International Teachers.

• 23 August 2024

IUP Students Selected for Competitive International Study Awards

Shanya Coshey, an Asian studies and anthropology double major from Manor, has been selected for a Benjamin A. Gilman Scholarship, and Dilan Dybus, an Asian studies major from Cresson, has been selected for a Freeman Asia Award. The scholarships will fund the students’ year-long study at Kansai Gaidai University in Hirakata, Japan.

• 20 June 2024

Office of International Education Personnel Recognized for Support to Threatened Scholar

Indiana University of Pennsylvania’s Office of International Education and two members of the office have been recognized by the Institute of International Education with certificates of appreciation from the IIE’s Scholar Rescue Fund Alliance.

• 22 May 2024

IUP Receives Funding to Host Students from Yucatan Universities for Third Year

• 29 January 2024

Ramos Interviewed by American Council for the Blind

Erick Marco Ramos, an English PhD candidate at IUP, was recently interviewed by the American Council for the Blind.

• 12 December 2023

Study Abroad Pre-departure Orientation

The Office of International Education has prepared a Pre-departure Orientation on Wednesday, November 29, at North Dining Hall for students participating in study abroad programs during spring 2024.

• 27 November 2023

IUP Student Receives International Association Scholarship

Khadija Zakki, a student in Indiana University of Pennsylvania’s Geography-Geographical Information Science and Geospatial Technology master’s program originally from Guelmim, Morocco, has received a grant from the Institute of International Education designed to help international students continue their studies when a natural disaster, war, or other crisis happen in their home countries.

• 17 November 2023

Education Abroad Policy

This news item contains the procedures utilized by IUP personnel when creating and/or participating in an official Education Abroad activity.

• Office of International Education
• 05 October 2023

IUP Receives Funding to Host Students from Yucatan Universities for Second Year

Indiana University of Pennsylvania is one of only two universities in the United States chosen to host students participating in the Secretariat of Research, Innovation, and Higher Education State of Yucatan scholarship, a short-term, intensive English language and American culture program.

• 28 August 2023

IUP Receives Funding to Host International Fulbright Recipients for Eighth Year

Indiana University of Pennsylvania has received $290,000 to continue to host the Fulbright Distinguished Awards in Teaching Program for International Teachers.

• 24 August 2023

International Women's Newsletter 2023

Celebrate women's achievements. Raise awareness about embracing equity.

• 21 March 2023

Students, Faculty to Conduct Second Forensic Archaeology Field School in Germany at Site of World War II Airplane Crash

For the second year, IUP’s Department of Anthropology has been selected by the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine Inc. through the Department of Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency to conduct a field study in Germany at the site of a crash of a World War II airplane.

• 12 July 2022

IUP Student from Philadelphia Selected for Gilman Scholarship for Study Abroad

Sfen Kadirifu, a junior international studies major with a focus in fashion at IUP, has been selected for a 2022 Benjamin A. Gilman Scholarship. The scholarship will help to fund her study at Yonsei University in South Korea for the fall 2022 semester of her senior year at IUP. She is IUP’s twenty-first Gilman scholarship recipient.

• 13 May 2022

IUP Selected for American Passport Program to Encourage Study, Travel Abroad Experiences

IUP is one of 40 universities in the nation selected for the Institute of International Education American Passport Project grant. This grant funds up to 25 IUP students who are first-year enrolled students who meet financial eligibility requirements to obtain a US passport to support their study abroad journeys.

• 28 April 2022

Mulvihill Receives Fulbright Award

Jessica Mulvihill ’02, D’16, director of Education Abroad and National Student Exchange in the Office of International Education at IUP has received a Fulbright Award to Japan. The Fulbright International Education Administrator Award was awarded in the spring of 2020 and, due to the pandemic, had been postponed until June 2022.

• Jessica Mulvilhill
• 20 April 2022